Were you looking for a one hour retrospective of #Blakes7 ?
Okay, here you go:
#SciFi #1970s #tv
A Turing-complete language, I mean. Not SQL.
Well, not so much for relational data. There ought to be a programming language with first-class support for relations.
It sometimes is! Not in this case. Modern languages (e.g. Clojure) have good facilities for mapping, filtering, and reducing data in memory.
In my experience with several ORMs, it’s not always easy to predict the SQL that gets generated, and sometimes it turns out to be inefficient. Better to just ask an SQL stored procedure to do the work, especially since it’s right there where the data are located.
I like your cat. Do you need more light to take good photos of a black cat?
Governments predate history, so we can’t be certain about their origins. Mancur Olson theorized that governments started when roving bandits decided to settle. Before, they had an incentive to take everything they could carry. After, they took portions periodically to maximize long-run plunder. The stationary bandits also had an incentive to protect their victims from roving bandits, so #[2] may be right in that sense, but it’s not as though the earliest governments we know about were minarchies.
Welcome!
Leah Remini on the #DannyMasterson verdict:
https://twitter.com/LeahRemini/status/1664029095439777793
#Scientology
Whoa, #DannyMasterson was convicted of two counts of rape, and got a hung jury (8-4 in favor of conviction) on the third. At this hour he’s no longer a free man.
#Scientology
https://tonyortega.substack.com/p/danny-masterson-guilty-on-two-counts
The visuals I got were black and white images of a World War I-style no man’s land and trenches, for some reason. Other psychedelics have presented me geometric shapes at most, or some face-like things at high doses. I’ve never had the sense that I actually was somewhere else, perhaps because I’m too left-brained.
I don’t think I learned anything; it was just an interesting experience.
In ayahuasca’s favor, it was even better for music than LSD or psilocybin, in my experience. Also the eyes-half-open visuals were interesting.
I have done ayahuasca. Its reputation for inducing nausea is well-deserved. If you ever try it, be sure to avoid tyramine-rich foods for a day or so afterward. The monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) component of ayahuasca makes tyramine dangerous.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/expert-answers/maois/faq-20058035
I don’t visit Reddit much. What happened?
If you want to learn more about Scientology from its critics, I can recommend:
1. Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (Season 1. I didn’t see the rest.)
2. Mike Rinder’s book, A Billion Years
3. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Never thought to compare those songs before, but I hear what you mean.