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If someone paid me $50 to admit on camera I've broken laws in the past, I think I'd probably be more than happy to. Are you under the impression the police are going to start arresting people on Soft White Underbelly because they admit to doing drugs? That's not really how the American justice system works, from what I understand.

You're right, I definitely made the stance out to be a lot more simple than it really is, I know there's a tonne of nuance to this topic.

I think all I was trying to say is in my limited experience, addiction and recovery seem to be processes so much better understood at an individual level than they do from a macro perspective. I don't think there's much at all the Canadian government could have done from a legislative or social perspective to bring Tim to recovery, I think my family, given our life-long relationship with him, maybe possibly could have.

That's a good question, I don't really know. I guess I just have a hard time accepting that when I was a teenager, my folks were aware that our uncle (my god father) was 40min away using every day, but as an extended family we'd agreed we were no longer going to be trying to change that. I think it was decided they'd rather him at least out of harms way and at peace than him going back to prison.

I'd probably end up the exact same way. I was hospitalized recently and was given hydrocodone for the first time in my life, I begged the doctor not to give it to me again, regardless of my pain levels, because it was the nicest I remember feeling in years and immediately just wanted more and more. Opiates terrify me like nothing else, largely because I know that if the circumstances were different, I'd probably be telling my future god son the same thing, that there's no better feeling on earth.

It's absolutely a tall order, maybe even an impossible one. I really don't know what I or my parents could have done differently, I just wish Tim was still here.

Definitely agree on that. Part of what I like about HN commentary is getting to zoom in on the juicy, interesting parts of small communities without having to sift through alllll the history. I don't have the online attention span to dig into a micro-niche anymore, I'm just here to interview folks more knowledgable than I am :)

Thank you for the reply! This is exactly what I was hoping to see. Exactly like I pointed out, if you're going to make such strong statements about such fringe communities, it helps to provide some context. I wasn't asking you to do research, just to actually make your commentary a bit more useful for the good of the community. :)

Most folks on here don't have the interest or time to research random YouTubers we've never heard of. Clearly it's an area you feel strongly about, so spending an additional 30s writing an explanation for why people on HN _should_ care, or where they should look, is a great start. Thanks again!

It helps to provide some context when making comments like this. Most HN readers don't follow YouTube drama, so at least suggesting what you think the criminal charges would relate to would help a lot.

To help others, the first result I found about this Lima Jevremovic character was:

> Founder, Lima Mora has lived through the implications of severe mental health illness first hand through loved ones. The Jevremovic Institute of Behavior and Brain Sciences (JIBBS) was bloomed from a desire to create tools to improve mental healthcare, research and innovations and make those tools available globally to all that need them.

A Mixed Reality Experience Designer, Mora specializes in Digital Health. She is well known in the tech community for her speaking engagements and role as an ambassador for bridging innovative technology with healthcare and providing insight on the emerging markets of VR/AR and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Seems like another entrepreneur trying to make it in the exhausting scene of health digitalization. What am I missing here?

This is a shame. There are some uncomfortable conclusions which one can reach hearing people in such dire positions being completely honest about what brought them there, but giving them a voice at all is incredibly valuable, even if what they say isn't necessarily what people who help them want to hear.

My uncle was a daily heroin user most of his adulthood. I remember him telling me one of his only regrets is not finding heroin sooner, it was the only thing that made him happy. It brought (synthetic) joy into a life which a poor, short, confused, single man in rural ON never would have experienced otherwise. He spent the last couple years of his life shooting up in a cheap rural cottage, financially supported by the government and his extended family. He overdosed many times and died young of cancer, but I do wonder how his story would be interpreted by my more progressive colleagues who like to talk about addiction as if all we need to solve the problem are safe injection sites, less cops, and more lenient sentencing. He had the safest injection site imaginable and the incredibly lax Canadian drug laws; it seems like what he needed most was to be part of a society which didn't encourage and enable his choices. I think finding a woman who loved him, even if just for a fleeting moment, might have helped him too. More than anything, I wish my parents had kept going back and hadn't given up and listened to the advice the government workers gave, which was that some people are beyond help, and providing them with their fix and a place to shoot up is the best thing you can do.

Tim was my godfather and my favorite uncle growing up. He's the one who told me some people's brains like drugs so, so much more than others, and if I can, to stay away from them. I miss him all the time.

I think channels like Soft White Underbelly are great because they allow people to form opinions on complicated, human-centric topics without the political and social commentary that come when big corps try to enter the arena. Trust me, if Fox, CNN, Disney, or Buzzfeed were trying to tell Tim's story, you would essentially end up watching an advertisement for an American political party.

If you're going to make comments which deliberately call out a political or social agenda, please just be respectful to the community and explain what you actually mean. This isn't Twitter or reddit, it's HN.

How would you describe the 'the hidden narrative' that's being pushed here? To extend, do you personally think that channels which push narratives you don't support should be demonetized?

Right, so one one might use a more specific expression if they were talking about the parental responsibilities of their own future child. Again, you're trying to argue against the well-understood meaning of a colloquialism that most English speaking adults understand.

Your observation that words being said in the corporate world may be interpreted differently than in the bedroom is not a meaningful one and just comes off as uneducated, if I have to be honest. Communication in the corporate world is often deliberately vague, congratulations on your groundbreaking discovery.

I've told this story before, but one of my college buddies is an ex-Twitter engineer and I can anecdotally answer this question.

He worked about 2h/day. When he _was_ working, it was on a 5 person team whose sole job that quarter was to implement (from scratch) some JS games and stress relief activities to be played by their content moderation staff in their mandated 10min breaks every 30min.

He was on the team for probably 5 months before he quit and found another job to continue coasting at, and not once in the whole 5 months did their team deliver anything tangible. From what I understood this sort of dynamic was pretty par for the course at Twitter.

I imagine in 50 years companies like Twitter will be used as case studies in business school for how chronically woke-obsessed middle management and career political justice warriors had a measurable tendency to kill otherwise profitable companies in the 2010s-30s. There is just 0 financial justification for the business and management frameworks put forward by these folks, and getting to peer into the Twitter corporate chat, team makeups, hiring processes, and general political climate made it clear to me how much poor money is being spent at many of these companies, and that when the song eventually ends, I'm certainly not hoping to be the one holding the bag.

https://www.ohmyrockness.com/ is fantastic, I think because it's personally curated by boots on the ground music fans who make a living researching up and coming New York bands. It has a focus on the NYC scene, but features bios and reviews from bands from all over the world.

I like it because I know the recommendations never come from algorithms, but come organically from other music fans. Rock's the overarching thematic focus, but you'll find hip-hop, jazz, and nearly any genre you could think of on there :)

I mean if it's helpful to you, people can deconstruct the meanings of their colloquialisms so it's more clear, but for most English speakers it's not really necessary. Are you ESL?

If I told someone "we'll be working on this report til the cows come home", I wouldn't expect that it's necessary to explain that the expression doesn't actually have anything to do with cattle, and instead just means I'm expecting this to take a long but indeterminant amount of time. If someone found it clever to point out what I _actually_ meant, I wouldn't find their input very helpful, just socially unintelligent and annoying.

Usually it's more helpful to just research what an expression means, rather than trying to argue about what you personally think it _should_ mean.

Perhaps you're unfamiliar with the expression, but usually when English speakers say they "take full responsibility" for a tragedy or unfortunate occurrence, they mean from a moral and blame-based standpoint, it's rarely related to the finances of those affected.

The laid off employees are the ones ultimately worse off by the outcome, that goes without saying, what you're missing is that this is different from being morally or strategically responsible for why the situation played out this way. That's the ownership the CEO is trying to take.

Totally. It also has friendly, hilarious, tall and broad shouldered men who love to drink and gamble on soccer, women with great fashion sense who get their nails done religiously, and some of my favorite local folk music I've ever heard. I think the point I'm trying to make is that broad, multi-faceted cultural differences that span generations are a better explanation for differing obesity rates than one single factor like the lack of socialized healthcare.

I think it takes living in Europe and also living in rural America to really understand just how different we are across the Atlantic, so broad demographic differences like this aren't something we can neatly attribute to one cause, nor should we aim to.

After living a year in Florida and then living a year in Serbia, I can't say I'm convinced it's the socialized healthcare is what makes Europeans so much skinnier than Americans.

I spent the first part of my career following this kind of advice, working as hard as I could, and chasing some mythical prestige I thought would make me happy.

Now I make $320k, work remotely about 20h/wk, and have never been happier than I am right now, checking boxes and fixing bugs as a senior engineer on a minor product team at FAANG.

I don’t care if I ever get promoted, maybe I will, I probably I won’t. I get great feedback from my managers and I have a friendly relationship with my coworkers, most of whom are happily chomping at the bit to get promoted next cycle.

I realized during the pandemic how much better the world outside the internet is, and now I spend my spare time hiking mountains, painting murals, playing in a crappy cover band with my high school buddies, and eventually finding a wife to settle down with. I refuse to believe I’ll spend my time on my deathbed wishing I’d written more code and spent less time outside; life is just too damn short.

I’d like to give the exact opposite advice of this author - find an easy, comfortable, well paying job and fill the rest of your life with things that actually matter. I truly believe you’ll be happier for it.

>The very idea that she, a Black person living in Alabama, could make $75,000 a year in the tech industry after just a 10-week boot camp is what drew Aaryn Johnson into Flockjay.

Isn't this where someone with reasonable critical thinking skills could see that something smells very, very fishy? I think the people who run these snake-oil boot camps are jerks, but I also don't have too much sympathy for the people they dupe when what's being promised is so outrageous.

I'm not a great chef but I worked in a kitchen as a teenager, so if someone told me I could make $75k cooking after 10 weeks of lessons and I believed them, does that make them a scam artist or me a deserving sucker? In my admittedly shallow opinion, I'd say it's both.

Are transwomen creators really disempowered online these days? The internet's a very different place from how it was in 2007.

Contrapoints, Gigi, Maya Henry were the first three that came to mind and from what I've seen all have wildly successful online followings, and a literal army of Twitter and Discord users to come to their defense. KF is the only site I'm aware of that bullies trans people, but I can think of loads of popular accounts and forums that happily go after Republicans, depressed single men, Christians, and any other group which the online majority has decided is deserving of abuse. I think the take "trans people have a hard time being accepted online" is pretty outdated now.

What medium would you recommend Mr. Ebright use to deliver his message to his 50,000 followers, plus the other several hundred thousand who would have seen it given its popularity?

He didn't write this for HN users to read, it's pretty unrealistic for us to expect people format their publishing to fit the preferences of nerdy HN readers.

"Just asking questions" is also a common strategy among people who would like answers to their questions. I spent a long time in 2006 asking questions online about USA's actions in the Middle East, and what I found was that there was indeed an incredible amount of coverup and half-truths from both sides of the political aisle. Despite this, I was naturally called a "9/11 truther" or whatever insult could be applied to someone who wanted honesty from the world's most powerful government.

It's not in bad-faith or manipulative; there are people on this site who have a full and total belief that the Wuhan lab leak is entirely a conspiracy, so earnestly asking for clarification on how they came to that decision seems perfectly reasonable to me.

In 2003 if someone was "just asking questions" about climate change and its future effects, I don't doubt skeptics online would try to unfairly lump them in with conspiracy theorists claiming the world would be on fire by 2010. It seems to me that the best way to convince people that the lab leak is not a reality would just be to answer their earnest questions, rather than lumping them in with anti-vaxers.

Most of the time when I see people reference this principle it’s because they’d like a convenient way to hate Christians or republicans while still considering themselves a good person.

Athletes don't train to make the Olympics so their nation can take home the most medals, they're there as individual competitors. The Olympics aren't really presented as some large metagame, it's about the actual athletics.

I can't think of a good reason Apple would want to support developers who want to publish in their (very) walled garden but aren't willing to purchase at least one macOS device. There are services which provide virtual Macs, this isn't meant to be one of them.

Am I misunderstanding the Wikipedia article?

>There are various ACH systems around the world. The World Bank identified 87 systems in their 2010 Survey

Seems to me like there are many different ACH systems, but perhaps the one referred to colloquially as ACH is specifically FedACH, the American system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_clearing_house

Putting down my bong and loading another, I remark to the travelers that the human brain is the only set of atoms in the universe which wonders why they are there. All the other atoms seem perfectly happy to exist at all.

Yep. Perfect example of this being the Lego Mindstorms platform. We had a "robotics club" at my private school which used the Mindstorms visual programming tools; there were 10 year olds learning about loops and variables in a way that was legitimately _fun_.

What would application or full-stack engineers expect to charge? I'm Canadian and have often wondered about who's behind the broad spectrum of quality in our country's online offerings.

Right, but you should be able to see that the “why” doesn’t really make any difference here, the effect is still the same. D’s remain motivated to keep immigration high, R’s remain motivated to bring it down.

(I'll preface this by noting that I'm Canadian and will never vote in an American election)

One of the reasons that immigration and green cards has always been such a hot-button political issue in the US is that first and second generation immigrants tend to overwhelmingly vote Democrat. You end up with this awkward feedback loop where D's are objectively politically motivated to increase immigration, while for R's it's the opposite. Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, that's just how it was explained to me once.

This is crazy. Every single one I looked at was like this. Are these even real people playing guitar? If it were piano I’d say it’s 100% just MIDI arrangements.

I’m gonna look into this more. I have friends trying to break into the industry and gaming the Spotify and TikTok algorithms is (unfortunately) a big part of that these days. Having fake, phantom artists filling up your flagship playlists is so anti-creator I’m truly appalled at Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wdHPx6lvGu3MvTH61uvTi?si=3n...