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So glad I live in Canada. American corporatist evil seems boundless.

DMT trip reports point to a use of psychedelics beyond therapy. Since so many users describe the same thing -- points of contact with other beings-- we can hypothesize that DMT giv…

This comment is naive, but not totally off-base. Psychedelics can cause real long-term problems for people even if used correctly. I liken it to skydiving, a potentially dangerous …

If you approach the psychedelic experience as Thompson did, with the macho attitude of getting as fucked up as possible on as much as you can stand, then of course you are going to…

When I was at University of Waterloo in the 80s, I went for a couple of talk therapy sessions with a very nice, empathetic woman employed in the Psych department. After a session, …

Yes. Sticking only to the realm of hard science, the frontiers keep expanding (e.g. dark matter and energy). When it comes to our subjective perceptions and how the the brain assem…

Except all video is fake, that is, all videos are artifacts, artificial things. "We’re not so far from the collapse of reality" -- am I the only one who finds this inane? No video …

Amazon's stated reason for acquiring Alexa was to use Alexa's technology to build a recommendation engine. Search was never a priority for Alexa itself. We are acquired for $100 mi…

I worked at Alexa, then affiliatated with the Internet Archive, on exactly this, in the late 90s. We built our own server farm to crawl, process and store the data. We had 30TB of …

I'll let Sister Wendy do the talking here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3sPATJc7rM

I see a lot of comments by privileged straight males on here. As usual, you just don't get it; you have not spent one second trying to put yourself in another's shoes. I am a gay m…

Listening to Padgett's rendering of his Enigma theme on Youtube, it's not especially musical. Author of the article seems duly impressed, but it's very easy to write harmony to any…

I have hired junior web developers, both those right out of school and those without CS degrees. I look for: - a portfolio website that deploys a range of recent web technologies. …

I am glad I had my SF adventure when I did. I lived there from 1996-2001 and paid less than US$900 for a charming Nob Hill bachelor. That same apartment goes for $3k today. Current…

Exactly. Without adequate sleep and time to engage in purposeless activity (e.g. walking) there can be no insight. But perhaps only creative minds come to understand this, which is…

Yes-- that is exactly what I mean. If I found myself in an organization where management looked appealing I would make the switch. It has never happened.

At 49 I am still coding and still learning. I architected and implemented node.js services this year and have done lots of interesting modern web development. I am well respected w…

The problem is the focus on worldy success, not the pursuit of a dream. Artists, writers and musicians who pursue their passion consistently over the years are no longer concerned …

sweet!

This is excellent work. Web Audio has so much potential. Are the drum sounds sampled or synthesized?