Yes, the term now is UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon. There is an official UAP Task Force in the Pentagon. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid uses it, Hilary Clinton uses it.
> If you don’t touch code, it doesn’t intrinsically degrade.
This is one misunderstanding of code quality which takes an absolute approach to measuring code health. Code health is relative to the changing requirements of it’s use. If you suddenly add a requirement that doesn’t fit existing design assumptions, the code hasn’t changed but the relative to the ideal has deviated...without touching the code.
I would be thrilled to hear somebody's theory of consciousness that takes into account the following axioms:
1. Consciousness demonstrates quantum non-locality. The U.S government via 3 letter agencies studied psychic phenomena like remote viewing for over 30 years under various names including Project Stargate(a). and was studied at Stanford Research Institute by scientists like Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff.
2. Consciousness affects matter. The water crystal experiments by Masaru Emoto(b) are the simplest and least fringe example. Project love, hate, anger, etc. to water results in changes to the crystal structure of water when frozen.
I tried to keep it as non-fringey and simple as possible. If you consider these, it leads to the framework that consciousness is not emergent from the physical brain but is instead a field or carrier-wave from somewhere else and brains act like antenna receivers.
This is incredible, I definitely believe it's possible with psychedelics. I've stuttered all my life and have accepted it as part of my life, but I think I'm going to try it. Definitely not taking an ounce at one time though!
The book Radical Markets has very innovative ideas in combating inequality using market strategies.
We are deluded if we don’t acknowledge Inequality is one of the biggest challenges facing us that we have to solve.
Some commenters have asked what kind of business would deploy this kind of technique.
I’ve done it. For MLS syncing software, there are lots of properties, not thousands but can be hundreds. And each MLS RETS has its own Schema, so for any kind of logic portability this is necessary.
Actually, storing the raw data as a blob is a flexibility technique and is a separate concern than the number of fields. As I can’t predict the future set of optimized queries I’ll need, and I don’t want to constantly sync and resync (some MLS will rate limit you), then this way I can store the raw data once, and parse plus update my tables/indexes very quickly.