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Comment Re:Moronic clickbait (Score 1) 119

Classical hallucinations are like an overlay on top of reality. When you take lsd, for example, parts of the world around you seem to change. You perceive things that are not there.

When you take Ayahuasca you seem to leave the world. The beginning of the experience feels like real movement, in a way blended into trippy hallucinations. For example, moving at speed down a tunnel made of magical symbols away from the world. Accelerating at higher and higher speeds with sensations rushing over you until you hit a "take off" and the entire world seems to be left behind. At the height of the experience you "peak" into something indescribable, and then in the hours after the peak you get the bulk of the experience where you seem to be in another world. The "other place" that you go to is a lot like dreaming, but very intense.

Source: did a hell of a lot of drugs once.

Comment Re:Just one way to kill HFT (Score 1) 186

The invisible hand is hard to implement correctly. Each of the inefficiencies that you point out is a real problem, that causes further problems in the real world. But underlying all of this is a lack of information about the future. Although the non-deterministic allocation of capital is weak - each deterministic approach is weaker as it cannot react as quickly to changes in the unknowns of the underlying. In a very similar way to democracy, gambling seems to be the least worse approach that we have found so far. Any suggestions for alternatives?

Comment Re:Diversity is such a poor target (Score 1) 318

This is only true if you can measure merit precisely.

Anybody who has been involved in a hiring process knows that you cannot. When you are working with partial information the candidates are actually in a partial ordering rather than a total ordering. Which of course means that you can pick for diversity.

Comment They were fucked (Score 1) 24

I know somebody who worked there but got out ahead of the collapse. They were completely fucked by incompetent management who had no idea what they were doing. They had entire divisions who did not know each other even existed within the company. A factory producing kit that the software developers had never seen. Fucking incompetent chaos.

Comment Re:Problem with "Chernobyl" the show (Score 1) 264

Which part of the documented timeline leading up to the disaster do you claim was fiction:

* The low-power operation leading up to the test.
* The delay in the test.
* The xenon poisoning dropping power output to 30mw.
* The removal of nearly all the control rods to attempt to increase power.
* The SCRAM of the reactor.
* The explosion when the the rods were reinserted.

All of this is widely documented and verifiable.

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