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treeman79on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging

Perhaps guard the boarders so not nearly so much is crossing. Would also help stop human trafficking. Just a thought.

treeman79on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging

Meet people that have have done a lot of drugs? Some can still function. Others, just can’t. Had an owner of a successful tech company see it fall apart because he couldn’t make decisions anymore.

Was a really nice guy, but by the end I might hire him to sweep the floors, but only with supervision. Not sure how he’s doing now, but I imagine he’ll be homeless by some point.

He enjoyed going to burning man a lot.

treeman79on Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging

I have yet to meet a person. Whose personality didn’t completely changed after being on marijuana for a while.

Every single one of them said it didn’t affect them.

treeman79on Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie

Disability straight up laughed at me. I should have gotten a lawyer, but I couldn’t think straight or effectively communicate for a couple of years.

treeman79on Secret identities in Dwarf Fortress (2017)

Might be more fun to only check so often ir somewhat random ally. Human nature often it takes a moment to realize something is off.

Bear walks into tavern. Some panic, others are slower to react / notice. A very drunk dwarf might never notice, or offer a beer to the bear.

treeman79on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now

There is also Superman’s key. Made of neutronium.

https://dcmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Fortress_Key_(All-Star_Supe...

Last I tried to calculate (poorly), if you were to touch it. You liquify and be sucked into it just before contact.

treeman79on Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism

“I’m not addicted, it doesn’t affect me.” Every addict I know. Seen a number of people slowly change from it until they are no longer who they are. Never in a good way. Seen some who got off it.

One because her husband has such a bad reaction (after several years of use) that he can’t ever touch it again. She became her old self again. Not quite as bright as she once was, but personality improved to the loving person I once knew.

treeman79on Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie

Got injured (brain). Airbnb and Uber eats is how I kept my family from being homeless until I recovered enough to program again.

Huge advantage being able to go at my own pace when I didn’t know how functional I would be on any given day

Not saying it’s a good company, but saved my family.

treeman79on How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?

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

Excellent story about the government not allowing anyone to be too smart or beautiful.

Example. If you’re smart, you wear head phones that emit random loud noises so you can’t form thoughts for long.

treeman79on CDC Finds 20 Infectious Agents in Unlicensed California Lab

I mean it’s not like we upended all of society over a lab leak recently…

treeman79on “It works on my machine” turns to “it works in my container” (2019)

Owner hired an extremely “senior” developer. Was told to let him do his thing.

After he spent 3 months building a web app, I asked him how he wanted to deploy it.

Perfectly straight face he said we would take his developer machine to a local data center and plug it in. We could then buy him a new developer machine. It went downhill from there.

I ended up writing the application from scratch and deploying it that same evening.

Owner hired a lot Of strange people.

treeman79on A copywriter swindled victims out of $200M by pretending to be a psychic

Hired into a place that had a crazy active astrology slack channel. Those people would believe anything as long as it wasn’t traditional mainstream.

Of course they also told me how upset they were to hire a white man, something I wish they had mentioned Before hiring. so that kind of set the tone.

treeman79on How too much daydreaming affected me

Get some audiobooks. Epic fantasy / sci-fi or whatever. See how you are doing tasks when a good portion of your mind is preoccupied.

I’m probably 20x faster since it stops the day dreaming.

treeman79on Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse

The point of these type of articles is for rich politicians to be given more power over peons and an excuse to raise taxes endlessly.

Science has nothing to do with anything here.

treeman79on Where did our belief in abundance come from?

Government / regulatory capture is a really bad thing. Businesses that can use the government to shut down competitors is bad. None of that is free market. Companies that are indistinguishable from government are bad. Tax payer Subsidies to pick winners and losers are bad.

None of those are free market.

People often argue against free market by pointing at things that are the opposite of free market.

treeman79on Where did our belief in abundance come from?

Hint. Free Markets is why we have a thriving middle class. All counties that attempt to eliminate and replace it end up collapsing.

Venezuela is the latest example of a socialist paradise where the children now eat out of garbage cans.

treeman79on Where did our belief in abundance come from?

Read Basic economics by Thomas Sowell. It’s gives a fantastic understanding of supply and demand, what wealth is, how it’s created, etc. Why some places prospers, and some don’t.

treeman79on The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

Until someone sneezes and all the power is released at once.

treeman79on Man spoofs threatening texts from ex-gf, gets her jailed multiple times (2020)

There are web sites for doing this.

treeman79on Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote

This is what crash of 2000 was like for me. Multiple calls a day from recruiters. Sometime around June or so, the calls Stopped. Just stopped. Six months later I was working at RadioShack.

Along with a number of engineers with 10-20 years experience.

Took me 3 years to get back into a tech job.

This is starting to feel the same.

treeman79on Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node

Bunch of high level politicians were flying to Epstein’s island raping underage girls. Only person convicted is a woman.

Amazing how there is a protected class of wealthy.

treeman79on Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi

It is more likely to be contracted.

treeman79on Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age

Trial and error. Symptoms start back up every-time I go off blood thinners. Visual issues , TIAs, cognitive. Clears up when I start back up. Covid started when I was just getting treatment so lost access to doctors, so no further investigating was done.

treeman79on Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age

Got exposed to lot of natural gas over a 3 month period. (Long story) Eventually figured out that my blood begin clotting like crazy. I have factor 5, so I was predisposed to it, but I was having 2-3 TIAs a week for a couple of years. Huge cognitive decline.

Only when a large clot showed up in lungs did they figure out what was going on.

Week after being on blood thinners and simple programming problems that were taking me weeks to solve were back down to minutes.

treeman79on Ask HN: My child was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder. What to do?

If possible channel her into something. We had ours in a few sports. Currently in All Star Cheer. (Not what you see at football games) One even got a late start at 13.

They absolutely love it, and it’s been a big positive in many ways for them. Our lazy unmotivated child works hard now and talks constantly about college, getting good grades etc. basically, she’s doesn’t want to disappoint the team or her friends, so she’s learned to push herself hard. Plus they are so busy they don’t have time to get into trouble.

We had them in horses at one point. Person selling us on it had a good point that keeping them busy and active was cheaper than teen pregnancy or years of therapy.

treeman79on Ask HN: My child was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder. What to do?

My youngest is like that. Severe ADHD. Opposition defiance disorder. She is amazing and exhausting.

We do a mix of give where we can. Foods that she can tolerate, clothing that doesn’t bother her. But also strict on expectations. She follows directions or gets a time out.

We had many horrible times trying to give her a 3 minute timeout. 90 minutes, 3 adults drenched in sweat. She would run out of timeout, we would bring her back.

However the better we did about staying on top it, the better she learned self control. She’s older now, still a pistol, but is generally very well behaved.

We watch her closely for migraines, as that runs in the family and is a cause of sensory issues for a lot of us.

We only use dye and fragrance free laundry soap which helps a lot. No scented anything in the house.

treeman79on WHO aspartame brouhaha

Was suffering a large number of TIAs, and some clots in lungs.

When I stopped drinking a sugar free energy drink that had Erythritol my episodes drastically reduced. From weekly to every few months.

I have Factor 5 Leiden. So I predisposed to clots, but certain chemicals seem make it a lot works.

treeman79on Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases

Couldn’t smell much of my life. Later on got diagnosed with autoimmune Sjogrens. Seems like it could be related.

https://creakyjoints.org/living-with-arthritis/symptoms/sjog...

Much later in life I got migraines really bad. During which all my senses went into overdrive. Sense of smell was vastly better than those around me.

treeman79on New research indicates social rigidity is a key predictor of cognitive rigidity

Reminds me of this study about how liberals were smarter than conservatives because they could recognize W better in obscure patterns. At the time George W. Bush was president. W being a a huge trigger for many liberals.

Of course now we have TDS.