hn thread: Lead is not a toxin, but is essential for the brain.

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Tankakern: Jul 25, 2007

fart simpson posted:

i make overpriced speakers for upper middle class europeans. truely an essential industry.

b&o?

# ? Mar 29, 2020 17:38

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 01:50

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

Tankakern posted:

b&o?

its a corona lockdown, you can't expect everyone to shower everyday

# ? Mar 29, 2020 17:44

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

Tankakern posted:

b&o?

harman kardon

# ? Mar 30, 2020 02:12

tracecomplete: Feb 26, 2017

I got downvote-brigaded today for saying "profit is an indicator of market inefficiency", because understanding the principles of the free markets that these loving dupes idolize is apparently a bridge too far.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 03:40

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

fart simpson posted:

harman kardon

karman hardon would be a good name for a european pornstar

# ? Mar 30, 2020 03:50

Switzerland: Feb 18, 2005; Do what thou must do.

Shot:

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Ask HN: Could mushrooms prevent Covid-19?
I found this patent on Google while searching for Coronavirus + Paul Stamets. Has anyone done research on this?

Green-text username chaser:

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I had a terrible case of the flu between Dec 31 and Jan 24 while living in SF. It was so bad, I thought I was gonna die, and so I picked up some shrooms to cope with the pain, and my symptoms went away for about 16 hours.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 04:09

Xik: Mar 10, 2011; Dinosaur Gum

shrooms are the answer, just don't know what the question is yet

# ? Mar 30, 2020 04:34

Best Bi Geek Squid: Mar 25, 2016

i legitimately saw a mushroom agitprop film a little while back. it was this hour-or-so long movie about how mushrooms are literally magic and how this one dude (whose portfolio of patented fungi strains would certainly not make him a lot of money if consumption went up and psyclosybin was legalized) was so cool and had his life literally changed by mushrooms. The group showing the film had employees there handing out magazines stuffed with ads for dudes mushrooms and mushroom accessories

# ? Mar 30, 2020 05:29

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

psychedelics have totally changed my life

in the way that now I want to trip all the god drat time

# ? Mar 30, 2020 08:55

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I think I'm getting good at the whole non-dual thing. experiencing consciousness as consciousness not as just a participant thereof

really need to delve into it more during sober time meditations but problem is there seems to be an ordinariness to it, I suppose I'm simply unexeperienced enough in meditation to really see if what I am doing is what I am looking for

# ? Mar 30, 2020 09:01

Xik: Mar 10, 2011; Dinosaur Gum

all that meditation and not a shred of self awareness smdh

# ? Mar 30, 2020 09:11

Tankakern: Jul 25, 2007

Vomik posted:

its a corona lockdown, you can't expect everyone to shower everyday

haha

fart simpson posted:

harman kardon

aha, didn't know they ventured into that genre

# ? Mar 30, 2020 09:18

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

Tankakern posted:

haha

aha, didn't know they ventured into that genre

i mostly work on speakers in the $500 to $2500 range and none of them sound as good as a pair of real loudspeakers connected to a cheap amp

# ? Mar 30, 2020 11:29

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

Xik posted:

shrooms are the answer, just don't know what the question is yet

the question is: "do I want shrooms?"

# ? Mar 30, 2020 14:12

DELETE CASCADE: Oct 25, 2017; i haven't washed my penis since i jerked it to a phtotograph of george w. bush in 2003

AFashionableHat posted:

I got downvote-brigaded today for saying "profit is an indicator of market inefficiency", because understanding the principles of the free markets that these loving dupes idolize is apparently a bridge too far.

but everyone knows that, it's why a stable business that generates profit will inevitably face competition

# ? Mar 30, 2020 17:57

tracecomplete: Feb 26, 2017

DELETE CASCADE posted:

but everyone knows that, it's why a stable business that generates profit will inevitably face competition

HN users believe profit exists because of hard work and gumption and only a teensy lot of lawbreaking.

# ? Mar 30, 2020 18:25

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Xik posted:

all that meditation and not a shred of self awareness smdh

please teach me the wise ways

echinopsis fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Mar 30, 2020

# ? Mar 30, 2020 19:05

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

echelon 2 minutes ago [-]

I was looking at this SBA loan forgiveness plan that's a part of the relief / recovery / bailout bill. I actually think right now is an incredible time to launch a startup, and I want to hire a few out of work software engineers to work with me.

My plan was to incorporate, take out a loan, and pay payroll with the entirety of it. Unfortunately it looks like the bill requires you to have been in business before February 15th with verifiable employees on payroll.

I'm really miffed, because putting unemployed employees on payroll at a new company isn't any worse than keeping existing employees on payroll at a business that doesn't have customers. In fact, if a new company is more productive and is working on solving problems that arise because of this virus, it seems more productive to solve the new problems than to keep the unviable businesses running.

I'll have to figure something else out...

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# ? Apr 3, 2020 18:11

mrmcd: Feb 22, 2003; Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

Topic: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker (nyc.gov)

hn:

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mvi 14 minutes ago [-]

That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that people should strive to be self-reliant. Not: "how can we meet people's needs?" but "how do we help people meet their own needs?". Like the old proverb about giving a man a fish vs. teaching a man to fish.
Everyone always shuts down that second question with "they can't help themselves until their basic needs are met" which is incredibly hand wavy and disingenuous, in my opinion. Half of being poor is in the mind. If poor people are to become middle class people, there needs to be a change in the mind. This change doesn't automatically happen "because money". Changing the mind needs to come from teachers and mentors and the poor person has to want to change and start thinking and acting differently.

If you get everyone reliant on a monolithic omnipotent government, then when said monolithic government fails all of helpless leeches will die (and that could be millions).

I think it's better if we strive for a minimalistic government where members of society strive to be self-reliant and in terms of "safety nets" the government's goal is to promote and encourage self-reliance.

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kryogen1c 8 minutes ago [-]

>We'd be so much better off as a society if we could at least keep our people fed.
this is not a statement you can make without qualifying. it is either a useless tautology (society would be better if society were better), or an actual argument about policy and procedures (if wealthier people paid more taxes, we could feed poorer people and society would be better).

of course, no one says the second thing when that's what they mean because it is not self-evidently true. the core issue is complex and then the second- and third- order consequences are even more complex. this is to say nothing about which morals you presuppose about what a "better" society would be.

> I wish could out last this virus.

I have been wishing the opposite. my greatest fear is that the virus and soon-to-be depression will be used to push through some extreme political policy that will reshape America in a near-uncontrolled way.

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tnel77 3 hours ago [-]

And just like that, the number of people needing food plummets. Big yikes.

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sadfev 1 hour ago [-]

Why is this being celebrated?
Yes as a temporary measure it�s ok, will help save some lives.

But govt will keep this indefinitely and ever expand its dirty reach and make shape us all into dependent leech.

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jimmaswell 0 minutes ago [-]

NYC residents only. Typical hubris from NYC implying the rest of the state (where they get their water from) doesn't exist.
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pdubs1 23 minutes ago [-]

I understand that you're ready to shell out other peoples' resources/money.
The question is: Are you ready to shell out your own to achieve your vision? Otherwise, you're probably not very committed to it, yet expect others to be.

Also, how well did this vision work for Mao, Stalin, and Chavez?

Providing people the opportunity to eat, without working, and to multiply in free government housing?

That sounds like a recipe for a dire population explosion which is unable to support itself, and lives off of an artificial, subsidized welfare system ripe for collapse as soon as people aren't forced to pay into it (those people who work).

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hpoe 12 minutes ago [-]

I want to help other people I donate a decent chunk of my paycheck to humanitarian and other charitable efforts. I hate seeing people hungry, I grew up in a difficult situation and I hate seeing children go hungry.
My problem isn't that I am against people getting free food and shelter I am opposed to being forced into charity at the point of gun by the state, and my liberties being eroded by moral busiebodies that fail to understand the very things that led us have a society that even has the capability of eliminating hunger are the very things they are trying to destroy.

Every advancement, every push for "just a little bit more welfare", or "think of the children" has behind it the unspoken assumption that the government can do a better job with my means to help people than I could. This same government with a 13% approval rating and that is universally despised in most everything they try and do.

Every inch of additional power that the government gets is an advancement that is set in stone and can only be rewound with great effort.

So please don't paint me as an amoral monster, I do care, but I also recognize that sometimes emotionally driven responses that are executed without much thought and planning, like California banning plastic bags, can cause a lot more harm than good, especially in the long run.

Plus, like several dozen people all posting "the logistics of this must be insane!!! how???" without doing like the most basic amount of reading and grasping they are just using the kitchens of closed public schools

# ? Apr 3, 2020 18:52

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

mrmcd posted:

Topic: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker (nyc.gov)

hn:

Plus, like several dozen people all posting "the logistics of this must be insane!!! how???" without doing like the most basic amount of reading and grasping they are just using the kitchens of closed public schools

yikes

# ? Apr 3, 2020 19:13

Arcteryx Anarchist: Sep 15, 2007; Fun Shoe

mrmcd posted:

Topic: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker (nyc.gov)

hn:

Plus, like several dozen people all posting "the logistics of this must be insane!!! how???" without doing like the most basic amount of reading and grasping they are just using the kitchens of closed public schools

"if only people would do some basic research instead of jumping to conclusions!"
*jumps to conclusions*

# ? Apr 3, 2020 19:23

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

mrmcd posted:

Topic: Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker (nyc.gov)

hn:

Plus, like several dozen people all posting "the logistics of this must be insane!!! how???" without doing like the most basic amount of reading and grasping they are just using the kitchens of closed public schools

the world would be a better place without these people in it.

# ? Apr 4, 2020 00:25

4lokos basilisk: Jul 17, 2008

uncurable mlady posted:

the world would be a better place without these people in it.

hoping that the pandemic won't end in a way that they can just emerge unaffected from their comfy home offices and claim how tough this all was for them personally which means that their strong rational genius brains are obviously a sign of superior adjustment to a bad environment

"come on what's the problem, just work from home and get food delivered" should be the new "let them eat cake"

# ? Apr 4, 2020 12:25

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

fart simpson posted:

harman kardon

wanted it to be naim

# ? Apr 6, 2020 07:07

power botton: Nov 2, 2011

in this awful future where the government doesn't leave people to starve to death on the streets and lots of people dont work as hard surely these �bermensch willing to transform the world through increasingly intrusive user analytics will be even more needed and can demand even higher pay. simple economics.

# ? Apr 6, 2020 17:33

Oneiros: Jan 12, 2007

seph-reed 5 hours ago [-]

I just feel like speaking my mind. It's a WIP.
The idea of the patriarchy really took hold. It's convenient to believe that everything is the fault of monstrous men. Meanwhile many men never really wanted to be an oppressive alpha anyways, many just want to love and be loved; perhaps focus on their projects. It seemed like a win-win, softer men can just be themselves, no more oppression, who needs the dumb alphas anyways?
But there's one big issue here: neither male nor female libido has changed. Women still get off harder when they feel it's their idea, that the man was the trophy. But to be honest with a woman is to be honest about the male libido, that it's not particularly difficult to hack into.
So in order to really get a girls rocks off, you have to be able to hack her libido. Whatever her game is, you've got to know how to play it. Which means you'll have power over her, she's thinking about you, the more she think about you the more power you have, obsession, etc. And if you hurt her, it's oppression. She never wanted this! Pay no mind to the men she's hurt herself, for they set themselves up for it. But you worked to do this to her.
I honestly think there's only one way to create equality and that's drugs that change our libidos to be more similar: A. For women: perhaps a drug that makes them simultaneously aroused and hyper-critical? B. For men: I don't know what it's like to be a woman. Women should design this drug.
Feel free to replace the words "men" and "women" with top/bottom, dom/sub, masculine/feminine, or whatever non gender biased terms suit you, if that's what you like.

:biotruths:

# ? Apr 8, 2020 06:30

Best Bi Geek Squid: Mar 25, 2016

Oneiros posted:

seph-reed 5 hours ago [-]

So in order to really get a girls rocks off, you have to be able to hack her libido.

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hack her libido

# ? Apr 8, 2020 06:44

Vomik: Jul 29, 2003; This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

you can tell he�s a Virgin since he apparently thinks all women have a low libido like a sitcom

# ? Apr 8, 2020 07:00

Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

i fukken love that older model onyx studio 4 where it's just a wholesale mini ripoff of the beoplay a9

# ? Apr 8, 2020 07:53

Xik: Mar 10, 2011; Dinosaur Gum

tried to hack wife's libido but now I've lost root access

# ? Apr 8, 2020 08:01

Kazinsal: Dec 13, 2011

Xik posted:

tried to hack wife's libido but now I've lost root access

be careful backdooring your way in

# ? Apr 8, 2020 09:54

Neon Noodle: Nov 11, 2016; there's nothing wrong here in montana

sudo me

# ? Apr 8, 2020 11:45

DaTroof: Nov 16, 2000; CC LIMERICK CONTEST GRAND CHAMPION
There once was a poster named Troof
Who was getting quite long in the toof

Xik posted:

tried to hack wife's libido but now I've lost root access

now she's vulnerable to a mailman exploit

# ? Apr 8, 2020 13:04

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

lmao

# ? Apr 8, 2020 18:00

NihilCredo: Jun 6, 2011; iram omni possibili modo preme:
plus una illa te diffamabit, quam multæ virtutes commendabunt

DaTroof posted:

now she's vulnerable to a mailman exploit

it's fine as long as he puts on his white hat

# ? Apr 8, 2020 19:56

alexandriao: Jul 20, 2019

DaTroof posted:

now she's vulnerable to a mailman exploit

# ? Apr 8, 2020 20:06

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

I honestly think there's only one way to create equality and that's drugs that change our libidos to be more similar: A. For women: perhaps a drug that makes them simultaneously aroused and hyper-critical? B. For men: I don't know what it's like to be a woman. Women should design this drug.

"hack her libido" is good, but this is the funniest part

# ? Apr 8, 2020 20:14

Best Bi Geek Squid: Mar 25, 2016

Suspicious Dish posted:

For women: perhaps a drug that makes them simultaneously aroused and hyper-critical?

the poster likes his dommy mommy

# ? Apr 8, 2020 20:19

Chris Knight: Jun 5, 2002; me @ ur posts; Fun Shoe

go for a threesome with the mailman in the middle

# ? Apr 8, 2020 22:34

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 01:50

SRQ: Nov 9, 2009

how do i, an actual virgin, understand more about women than these people
they aren't aliens, just talk to some.

# ? Apr 9, 2020 00:12

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