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"...workers at KK Park are subjected to 17-hour workdays and are frequently spied on, tortured, and threatened with murder when attempting to flee the compound.[11][17] Passports a…

Letting the LLM explain it more clearly than I can: What exactly changed according to the FRED definition? Before May 2020: M2 included: M1 (currency in circulation + checking acco…

FUD / Citation required. Quick google search reveals you are incorrect (components of M2 shifted, and portions moved between M1 and M2, but M1 is a subset of M2, so there is no sig…

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> Instead of relying solely on penalties for engaging in a bad habit, introduce a positive action right after to replace it. This seems counterintuitive as I would expect this to r…

A coworker presented a demo the other day of this - asking LLM (I think it was OpenAI) to extract the text from a PDF - each page of the PDF passed as an image. It was able to take…

I think a clinical psych person may label this as depersonalization/derealization. But I like how the parent called it "a slow integration of diverse parallel processes" - not labe…

The article links to an amazon search results page for "bathroom spy camera" Here is the first result: "1080P Bathroom spy Shower Nozzle Hidden Spy Security Cameras Mini Camera DVR…

For those in the Bay Area - Kirk Lombard author of The Sea Forager's Guide to the Northern California Coast (at least used to) do some guided tours harvesting flora and fauna of th…

Your behavior right now is much higher risk to your daughter’s safety than fentanyl-laced drugs.

Thanks for the tip! Also, saw that the article also mentions this book in its first paragraph, so sounds worth a read.

That's what I thought of too. Just finishing reading Sorcerer's Apprentice - a kind of slog of a read written by one of the insiders of the Castaneda cult. I wonder if he "borrowed…

Interesting aside speaking of lucid dreaming- at least one of the authors of this paper is a lucid dream researcher - Karen Konkoly at Northwestern. Another people she coauthored s…

In my experience using Django for my webapps hasn't meant I can avoid HTML and javascript. Writing templates is writing HTML, and any relatively fancy UI including charting etc. re…

Mega impressed, I can see myself using this regularly. Charting and viz with matplotlib and pandas transforms is great, but a lot of time there’s a benefit of dumping to point-and-…

There's a huge diversity of social arrangements throughout history. Some of them communal and sharing, some warlike and taking; forced labor and not; monetary systems and not; etc.…

This sounds very interesting, thank you for sharing. Could you recommend any resources to learn about these three regions, ideally for someone without formal physics training?

I recall a former cult member turned therapist and cult expert Steve Hassan mentioning TM as problematic, he is the first reviewer quoted by this book about the topic https://www.t…

I think the discourse you started here becomes even more interesting and defensible if your assertion goes from “God isn’t real” to “God is human created.” It makes the idea of rig…

It sounds like you’re saying: all I need to do is stop, but I can’t! Meaning you are in your own way. If you have positive cash flow right now I’d recommend finding a therapist, si…