str33t_punk

So I used to smoke and then started juuling, and then eventually quit so I think I have a good perspective here.

The stories about users upping the amount of nicotine they consume is very true. I was a casual smoker (only a few cigs a day), and when I switched to juuling I quickly became a pod a day vaper, and was very addicted to niccotine. They really need to release differing concentrations -- while the 50mg is great for pack a day smokers, they need to release lower amounts for all the other types of smokers wishing to quit out there. The current formula has more nicotine per puff than when smoking a cigarette. I think they should get that on par, as many users with oral fixations just like to take many puffs, but may not want the nic.

However, when it came time to quit, it actually wasn't that bad. The biggest hurdle was the mental addiction to the act of juuling, but I didn't feel any withdrawals, and I didn't get quitting sickness (which I have gotten in the past when quitting directly from smoking)

Is there?

All I read every where is how terrible these things are.

I like them.

Does that make me a shill?

I think the response from European citizens on hackernews has been disappointing. I see many refuse to accept any of the negatives of GDP

Ones related to safety. The other ones related to a nebulous concept of data privacy

But there is doe.

For a while China refused to prosecute these manufacturers unless they sold to Chinese citizens.

Thus China is DIRECTLY trying to get revenge from the 100 years of shame

Cause when they pack up and move to a city everyone moans that they are ‘gentrifying’ and should move back we’re they came from.

I know many rich people who love sports betting

The sidewalk in San Francisco is already not a safe place.

Everyone is looking down at their phones. If they aren't, it seems like a large amount of SF residents don't know how to walk on sidewalks appropriately (stick to one side of the road when someone is coming the other way, don't walk 6 abreast, etc.).

I have seen so many people bump into each other and get into accidents simply walking. I wouldn't mind scooters on the sidewalk because then people will actually be forced to be aware, instead of walking around like mindless zombies staring at their phone and bumping into poles

However stereotypes about journalists from the tech crowd doesn’t have much visibility.

The journalist crowd thinks a bunch of stereotypes about tech. And they have the platform to broadcast their prejudice to the world. Some of their stereotypes are quite insulting to any quality Engineer.

Why is it bad when we stereotype them, when they have been doing it aggressively for years?

Rather, I believe it is our duty to start reporting on the media and our opinions about the media, as no one does. The media holds all the power in broadcasting opinions on the populace, and there are very little entities that check their power.

As a moderate on reddit I see leaking from both sides, but leaking from r/the_donald is much more contained.

It is particularly annoying when a hobby subreddit gets swarmed by the fanatical social justice crowd and kills all conversatamd community that existed previously.

The leaked content from r/the_donald are downvoted to oblivion. The leaked contentent from r/shitredditsays has much more power.

However, if you are simply seeing conservatives from r/news posting, and assuming they are crazies from r/the_donald, then you are assuming bad intent and may need to re evaluate how many conservatives live on the internet. Regardless of your political affiliation, you will see opinions you disagree with and that’s a good thing for the most part.

If you think there aren’t already hardware backdoors inverted by China in most of the chips you use you are naive

I disagree.

I have worked with DARPA and the Navy in the past. Now I’m in Silicon Valley. However my experience with the defense industry has shown me that unless Silicon Valley teams up with the Pentagon, the US will be destroyed.

We are very behind in terms of cyber warfare, and our position is incredibly weak in a post Snowden world, where all our defense strategies were leaked.

Our critical infrastructure is sorely in need of software updates - many devices don’t have authentication so one can just shut down a power plant if they get onto the same network.

China has been slowly pulling ahead by installing black doors in all the hardware manufactured there. Russia is flexing their muscles with excursions against neighbors critical infrastructure. The US is falling behind rapidly.

Despite incessant talk about ‘impact’ and ‘saving the world’, Silicon Valley engineers build glorified slot machines for phones. Refusing to work with the Military sounds like something the ultra privileged would say - they don’t care about the people in this country. When the lights go out because China has taken out power across the US, and Google is no longer working, I wonder then if those ‘3000’ engineers will think twice about the importance of national defense, or if they will continue to sit in their ivory towers and lecture the rest of the world about how they are making the world a better place for selling digital cigarettes. If engineers want REAL impact, there is no where better than cyber defense.

You are being incredibly disengenious.

For all these cases, there it is not shown that they going to online forums radicalized these characters and caused them to kill people.

Just as you would not say there is blood on Black activist forums hands because that one radical guy killed all those cops last year.

Unless there is a clear link that people in these forums are encouraging terrorism, the forums are not responsible

Until you realize ALL subreddits are almost entirely gamed by marketers.

Why do you think the reddit hive mind in small hobby subreddits conglomerates on a few devices / items?

Reddit is literally the most shilled platform. Easy botting + the up vote down vote system

To you I guess.

Many people value Facebook for the experiences it gives.

You sound like one of those people that 'doesn't watch TV' in the 90s. To many TV doesn't give any value at all -- it is mindless drivel. However, many others like TV. So it goes with Video Games as well. The product of an entertainment company is entertainment. If you don't find entertainment in the product then don't consume it, but don't act like a spoil sport when others like it. Stop purporting your own opinion as fact.

But many use Snapchat for legitimate non-harassment sexting. What you would need to do is combine this with a reporting feature. That way those using Snapchat for it's originally purpose don't get banned along with the unwanted dick-pic-sender crowd

Please, these are posters on Hacker News. We work at tech companies and make large salaries. If you purchasing that much you are probably only spending $800 per month (prices get lower the more you use). While this is still around 10k a year it is definitely very manageable on a 6 figure salary

Depends how you smoke. When I'm burning spliffs, my roommate and I go through a half every few days.

If you vape, even if you are a really heavy smoker you won't go over a half a month

I work out stoned all the time. It's pretty good mixed with pre work out or caffeine. You zone out about everything and can focus on lifting

Yes people are getting jobs. It's just the ones that don't who write the blogs that get up voted. Many college seniors I know have gotten offers without preparing that much outside of their usual work

I lived a a suburban, white, middle to upper middle class town in Connecticut until four years ago. There was a massive opioid problem in my high school. There were several overdoses a year. We even had a kid OD in the bathroom.

I am still Facebook friends with many of these kids -- none of whom really finished high school. I see them go in and out of rehab on social media all the time. More and more of my friends who did end up going to college are dropping out for various mental health issues. A lot of them are not rebounding.

It's all very surprising coming from a middle class suburban town in CT but it is the new normal I guess -- many friends of mine from other suburban / rural areas tell me their towns are facing the same issues.

I would say it also seems to work at companies with many offices. I worked at a company where I was in the Bay Area, half my team was in Seattle, and most of my 'clients' that I worked with were in Boston. People could work from home and it didn't really make a difference because half of people had to video conference regardless

what do smart contracts and block chain have to do with AR?

Looks awesome -- I am suprised this is able to render on a phone but I guess they are getting powerful.

However, I would say this is not anything 'game-changing' or really that new. This looks a lot like basic Hololens's features, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a feature that could be cloned easily by FaceBook in a couple of months. To be honest, I feel like Microsoft is truly the pack leader in terms of AR but the Hololens's are so expensive I can't see them becoming a market leader

but what ng is saying is that if someone is lacks too much confidence they are not useful. His example shows this --- the under confidant but knowledgable person does not contribute their knowledge when needed so they are not useful despite their knowledge.

Woooooow hahahahaha

Someone didn't get the call back from FB recruiters.

But really, bringing this kind of vitriol to an Ask HN is counter productive

And Conservatives would say the same thing! 'Liberals are prioritizing where people use the bathrooms over the real problem of islamic terrorism . Prioritizing pet issues over national security is disgusting!' Insulting people over whatever issues they decide to find important does nothing but drive them away from the issue you think they should support instead. Empathy and understanding need to be developed -- its like Respect, it is earned. While we hope people have these traits, unfortunately they don't. Insulting will reduce empathy. 'Why should I care about X? They are all assholes anyways. Fuck em'. And this is what happened with the election.

What a useless and unhelpful comment? This whole article was about figuring out why people voted for Trump so it doesn't happen again. Moral of the story was that comments like your's have drove a lot towards Trump. Some one makes a comment about why they support Trump, contributing to the article, and you immediately jump to an -ism that will probably push them farther towards that side. Do you not realize that you are part of the problem?

glad to see this as the first comment

SOPA is the only one I can think of and then they rebranded it