Beaver117

I've done many hallucinogens and have seen great things but "unspeakable horrors" too. It was a legitimately terrifying experience but I came out of it feeling mentally strong and stable.

I can't recommend anyone to try it since not everyone may be able to handle it. But it was an amazing experience I don't regret at all.

Surgery is just a bandaid on a systemic problem. We still don't even know why we are obese! Certain groups say carbs are the devil (what about Japan, China who eat a lot of rice and keep their obesity rates very low?). Other groups say it's saturated fats (what about the thousands of years history we have of eating fats? Obesity is a very recent problem).

You will probably get fatter living in a suburb driving everywhere rather than say NYC. But that's not enough to explain the difference between countries.

What about pollutants? The food, the water, the air, the feed for animals, the antibiotics, pesticides, seed oils, microplastics?

Ok but if you have a mansion and no friends or family what's the point? You want the experience of spending time with people you like.

Even just 5 years ago you could get great roles without a degree. That era is over

Yeah, he's going to have a lot of regrets later on socially. But these type of kids would fit in a traditional school anyway so maybe its for the best.

Just one data point at one company, I passed the final stage with good feedback but after a long delay was told the offer was given to an internal candidate instead as headcount is really low for new hires. So a waste of time

every meme started as a 4chan meme

I get why you ask but it really doesn't matter, when you burn out you have no choice but to quit. The money determines how long you can relax before getting your next job.

I burned out last year, luckily I had the funds to quit without anything lined up and been semi-retired ever since. I'd like to work again but modern software jobs ask for too much. Why should I dedicate so much of my life and brainpower to 24/7 oncall and managing development? No amount of money is worth the stress.

Although homeschooling may help with academics, what about socializing? Traditional schools are by far the better option for making friends as a kid

How about if the trip never occured at all and they had a zoom meeting? Does this even need to be a zoom meeting, why not a slack convo?

Definitely already have that. It just has some nasty side effect or expense or something preventing them from using it

There are about a gazillion porn websites and legislation only affects the top like 3 of them. Completely pointless unless you have an entire surveillance system like China's firewall

I hope I don't get flagged for this, just trying to bring up a somewhat controversial point. I support euthanasia. I think there is a level of suffering where it is unethical to encourage people to keep living, and rather that suicide can be a perfectly rational decision in those moments.

Now who are we to say if a person's suffering is enough or not enough to advocate that method? What if this new era of therapists better understand people?

I'm so disappointed at the state of HN. Instead of good faith discussion we have a bunch of keto anti-carb people pushing their narrative. Did you forget that a large number of people are Asian, eat large servings of carbs (rice) every day and live longer and are healthier overall than western people?

Wasn't the standard bodybuilder diet chicken, rice, and broccoli?

All of a sudden carbs are now "crap" and everyone tries to be in ketosis 24/7.

Cue the wave of replies. Um, akshually, its not sentient yet. It's just predicting the next word. Doesnt matter that it can automate most jobs since its not sentient. We just need to stop sentient AI

Why to we "really need to find a way to replicate that magic in the remote environment"?

It simply doesn't exist. Remote work, while great for junior engineers who enjoy slacking off and playing video games during meetings, should only be reserved for senior people

I watched someone get hired, literally do nothing, and it took 7 months for the company to let them go

If they were "literally" doing nothing, like not even joining meetings or logging in, they could be fired within a week. What you mean is they weren't writing code to the velocity and standard that was expected. Maybe that falls on you for not helping them onboard?

Because everyone and their mom has been recommending Toyotas for 20 years now, the price of used Toyotas have gone through the roof. They're still good reliable cars, just not cheap anymore like they used to be.

Why do advertisers shy away from porn? It's not like iPhone owners don't watch it so what's the problem with Apple putting their ads next to a pair of boobs once in a while?

There were millions of hours of unverified footage, I assume that was the main reason the site became so big. You cant just remove all of it and expect to stay the leader, especially with the competition in this space

I assume there's little reason to visit that site after they removed 90% of their content

Wish it was that easy. I don't have the jailbreaking talent to get them to do anything

Stop talking about it, just do it. Ban all social media. See what happens

Lol. Don't be upset when your sister cuts all contact from the family, just saying.

But when I ask it to make chemical weapons it refuses. Curious

Yes there absolutely is a flood of skilled developers, in fact there's so many of them they're expected to solve two Leetcode hards in a 45 minute interview to get a job now. Look at how many people got laid off in the last year, a lot of them are skilled

Also perhaps hiring standards have just become too crazy. Most tech companies make us jump through so many hoops that only the top lets say 1% make it through. Well that same 1% can probably also make it through every other company's hoops too. So theoretically they can get as many jobs as they want.

But companies don't want to hire the top 25% or middle 25% they leave these hoops to filter average candidates out

Maybe LLMs can reduce the work week at least. 30 hours, 20 hours even?

Unfortunately drug dealers dont accept venmo or zelle so it has at least one use