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New comment by treeman79 in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"

treeman79 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:32:19 +0000

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

New comment by treeman79 in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"

treeman79 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:30:47 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging"

treeman79 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:26:28 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie"

treeman79 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:34:05 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Secret identities in Dwarf Fortress (2017)"

treeman79 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:58:44 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now"

treeman79 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:20:37 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Marijuana addiction: those struggling often face skepticism"

treeman79 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:35:17 +0000

“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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Tell HN: Airbnb’s transparent pricing is a lie"

treeman79 — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:23:15 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?"

treeman79 — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 01:41:14 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "CDC Finds 20 Infectious Agents in Unlicensed California Lab"

treeman79 — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:27:09 +0000

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

New comment by treeman79 in "“It works on my machine” turns to “it works in my container” (2019)"

treeman79 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:45:24 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "A copywriter swindled victims out of $200M by pretending to be a psychic"

treeman79 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:05:46 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "How too much daydreaming affected me"

treeman79 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:01:37 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse"

treeman79 — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 01:38:26 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Where did our belief in abundance come from?"

treeman79 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:40:56 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Where did our belief in abundance come from?"

treeman79 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:01:01 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "Where did our belief in abundance come from?"

treeman79 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:53:57 +0000

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.

New comment by treeman79 in "The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?"

treeman79 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 11:29:28 +0000

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

New comment by treeman79 in "Man spoofs threatening texts from ex-gf, gets her jailed multiple times (2020)"

treeman79 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:53:22 +0000

There are web sites for doing this.

New comment by treeman79 in "Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote"

treeman79 — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:30:33 +0000

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.