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Sometimes the brain’s auditory cortex can 'misfire' and create sounds or voices that feel 100% real, even when there's no outside signal. It’s actually a documented medical phenome…

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If we're talking about objects in the asteroid belt, the internal consistency varies wildly. Most smaller objects are indeed rubble piles: boulders, pebbles, and sand-like grains, …

It's just astounding to see a scientific superpower destroy itself intentionally.

Nah, the businessman was probably in a more urban area, and he likely came into contact with a person (or contaminated item) who had recently been in the extremely rural area of ou…

Aren't multi-stage rockets essentially "lifting fuel into orbit"?

Russia has has something 130,000 troops positioned just outside Ukraine's borders and in Belarus. They have tanks, missile systems, amphibious landing ships, medical units, establi…

This. I live in Madison, Wisconsin (aka, the "Berkeley of the Midwest") where tattoos and facial piercings are absolutely the norm - even my kids' daycare teachers openly sport the…

The United States is still the only country in the developed world without a system of universal healthcare. Breathlessly comparing the USSR's economic policies with the raising of…

Also TMI (and let's be honest: mega-creepy) I can tell when women are menstruating with about 90%+ accuracy if we share small-ish indoor space for a few minutes. (As confirmed by f…

Required reading: "Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans" by George Becker et al https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-642-4034...

Speaking of "the public" as a single entity is about as useful as approximating a curve with a straight line - i.e. unless it's the most trivial case, it's oversimplified to the po…

> they are definitely black hats Both intelligence agencies and cyber-criminals can be considered threats, but they are quite different. Intel agencies would present a serious thre…

I would not so quick to judge the circumstances surround their divorce. There are quite serious allegations of physical and financial abuse lasting for years. https://www.gofundme.…

Not saying you're wrong, but. . . who actually knows what actual top-grade INS is doing these days? Those kinds of capabilities would probably be Top Secret or SCI.

> the tribe that reacts to any criticism of public health experts with hostility and threats of violence. . . The thing with playing syntactic games like this is that your altered …

7) A purely phenomenological viewpoint (such as the one held by some schools of Mahayana Buddhism) would claim that the only reality is one's own mind. The steel block along with a…

> The last time the battlefield was insanely lethal people just dig trenches to even survive the day. Trench warfare proliferated when a revolution in firepower was unmatched by si…

Okay, I'll admit I had the same reflexive skepticism to your initial comment as the person you're replying to. . . and your very well-reasoned, detailed response is emblematic of t…

At some point when designing a data store, decisions must be made with regards to memory layouts, integrity, transaction guarantees, ease of replication, etc. These choices typical…

> radically different approaches Exactly. Relational databases are fantastic general tools, but various use cases can make more specialized data stores the best choice for a partic…

> Siphoning off potential and sabotaging developing countries through human resource poaching called "immigration" You think immigration should be illegal? > Government theft and f…

I don't know if I would go that far. University education usually involves a ton of general-education classes for the first two years: English, science, history, math, basic scienc…

Choosing to risk catching a disease with a 1-2% case fatality rate, while refusing an overwhelmingly safe and effective vaccine is the definition of idiocy.

I don't see where LeGuin's argument is anything like "we shouldn't grow past where we are now". She's arguing (rather imprecisely, since she's not an economist) against a narrow ve…