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> These chemicals will change your brain, and your brain is who you are. I suspect that your brain is who you think you are because you've learned to associate the concept of self …

Through well measured advertising campaigns they changed the definition of what a "happy marriage" means so that it's new meaning aligns more closely with the idea of being in a sa…

exactamondo, but isn't science merely an epiphenomenon of consciousness ? If so isn't this a case of the snake trying to eat it's own tail ?

Unfortunately in the US we have a divorce industry that spends billions of dollars on advertising targeting mostly women, but also men with attempts to normalize divorce or even to…

on what basis do you base the assumption that the subconscious mind is something "concretely" ? Isn't it's non-concreteness kind of the point of calling it the subconscious ?

Lets not forget that the "failure mode" of ordinary consumer culture awareness can be pretty extreme too

1.) best practice is to store it in a paper wallet. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Paper_wallet

yeah I can't say much about Pivotal labs aside from the unusual interview that I was a part of and the conclusions that I drew from that experience. It's certainly possible that I …

Is angel list secretly the world's most successful startup incubator ?

A few years ago I interviewed at a startup that was operating out of Pivotal Labs in San Francisco and during the process I was interviewed by the management at Pivotal. They were …

Single page web apps are broken for a lot of the most important purposes that the worlds largest and most important web-apps need to fulfill. For example how could Wikipedia functi…

dicey subject area, and it's probably not God playing the dice :)

Nowadays when people smoke cannabis they don't actually combust the flowers instead what they do is heat them gently until the point where the water which is contained in the plant…

Epilepsy is not the only condition this plant cures, far from it, it's just the most dramatic because you can measure the decrease in seizures so rapidly.

1. cannabis doesn't cause impairment of motor skills in those who are accustomed to it's effects 2. cannabis smoke doesn't cause cancer because it's not radioactive like tobacco sm…

European society thought of sugar as a drug for hundreds of years and it was traded in the British empire mostly by opium traders.

Using MRI is a waste of resources period. It's going to cost you more $$$$ on RAM.

Las Vegas got it's start because of the gambling money, but it has maintained itself as nationally relevant over the years despite it's inhospitable weather and isolated environs d…

> Science only claims correctness in light of current knowledge, within certain error bars. I concur, but my point is that with regard to the mechanics and composition of the unive…

To posit such a thing as "all previous states" implies that a universe is a finite state machine whereas for all we know the universe could be infinite in which case the value "all…

>Provide incentives to attract scientists, firms and users; > Establish a favorable business environment and regulations. > Except … this approach to innovation clusters hasn’t rea…

> the universe used to exist as a point and expanded from there. Everything we see, everywhere, points to this. Yes but if I understand them correctly most modern scientists think …

You start by asking me to make an enormous leap of faith (free miracle) which is to assume that it's possible to know for sure whether or not you have perfect information about any…

Yeah you bring up an excellent point.. that there's not a way to prove perfect knowledge of any given system because you can't rule out the existence of factors that you don't know…