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Tristan O'Tierney, Square Co-Founder, Dies at Age 35 (sfchronicle.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the San Francisco Chronicle:
Tristan O'Tierney, a co-founder of San Francisco payments company Square, died Feb. 23 in Ocala, Fla., of causes related to addiction, his family said. He was 35...
His family is awaiting an official cause of death from officials. "I do know that it was in relation to his addiction," [his mother] Pamela Tierney said. "I know he got to the hospital, he couldn't breathe and they couldn't revive him." O'Tierney was in a three-month rehabilitation program in Ocala and had been battling addiction for three years, Tierney said. O'Tierney openly discussed his struggles with addiction on social media. "As some of you may know, I've been battling with addiction for these past few years," he wrote in September in a now-deleted Instagram post that he also shared on Twitter. "With some success. A lot of failure too though."
Bloomberg remembers him as a former engineer at Yahoo and Apple who was hired to develop Square's original mobile payment app in 2009, then stayed on until 2013.
"In addition to his parents, O'Tierney is survived by his three-old-year daughter, according to an obituary on the website for the funeral home."
His family is awaiting an official cause of death from officials. "I do know that it was in relation to his addiction," [his mother] Pamela Tierney said. "I know he got to the hospital, he couldn't breathe and they couldn't revive him." O'Tierney was in a three-month rehabilitation program in Ocala and had been battling addiction for three years, Tierney said. O'Tierney openly discussed his struggles with addiction on social media. "As some of you may know, I've been battling with addiction for these past few years," he wrote in September in a now-deleted Instagram post that he also shared on Twitter. "With some success. A lot of failure too though."
Bloomberg remembers him as a former engineer at Yahoo and Apple who was hired to develop Square's original mobile payment app in 2009, then stayed on until 2013.
"In addition to his parents, O'Tierney is survived by his three-old-year daughter, according to an obituary on the website for the funeral home."
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The first thing you learn in rehab is that most of the people you meet are going to die as soon as they relapse. Like you hear stories constantly while youre still in there about who died that week.
I have been following Tristan ever since I used his twitter client on the original iPhone, Twinkle, which brightened my days as an early adopter. Itâ(TM)s interesting to me how much emphasis is put on his addiction and time at Square, whereas his time at Apple and as an early iPhone / iOS developer really was the affectionate and incredible context that struck me as profound. The innovation from those early days is still unparalleled and Twitter is no longer even remotely the same place we met at eleven years ago. RIP Tristan. You were one of the good ones.
Summary mentions addiction several times, but doesn't say what to. Was he that famous that we're expected to just know?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I can see this happening to a lot of tech bro types. Won't be sad to see them go.
It might be useful to understand why and how O'Tierney felt disconnected.
background for those who learned from egg-brain propaganda:
https://youtu.be/ao8L-0nSYzg
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Another One Bites The Dust!
People die. Everyday.
The trillions of dollars spent on drug interdiction could have been spent on finding a cure for addiction, but where's the welfare scam in that?
Oh wait, let me guess: Video games. The Square founder broke the rule of successful drug dealers not using their product and became addicted to Square's Final Fantasy games.
(Different Square.)
The guy died doing what he loved. An inspiration to us all.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/YTbZzCkRQCEJa/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c7c16f064574863492f4e05
You're not more creative on drugs. You don't get more done on drugs. Drugs kill you.
1 thing you can always count on is that dimwit dopers who know they are life's losers will suicide themselves hiding in heroin. It's a good thing!
The only Square I know of is the game studio that created Final Fantasy... But they merged with Enix (another highly successful game company) in 2003...
If people want to kill themselves by taking drugs. Go ahead! Just don't violate or threaten my life(health), liberties, or property while you do it.
He would have saved a whole lot more time, money, and grief to the family, if he'd just blown his brains out with a shotgun.
Please blow your brains out druggies. So we tax payers don't have to foot the bill.
(Not saying we paid for this guy, unless he landed in jail.)
The first thing I think of with Square is FInal Fantasy. Wondered how a 2-yo non-Japanese person could've participated in the founding of a Japanese company.
when you f**k up you brain, you brain can no longer accurately assess things and while the whole world sees you as sloppy, stupid, and dangerous, your brain tells you that you are operating better than ever.
When you screw up a thermometer, you cannot rely on it for the temperature.
When you screw up a tapemeasure, you cannot rely on it to measure lengths.
When you screw up a clock, you cannot rely on it for the time.
Same basic principle, but amplified. When your brain is a mess, all bets are off. Drugs do not expand you mind or make you more creative,
they just mess up your ability to know how creative and open-minded you are; the people around you who are not on those drugs can clearly see this.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Mark 8:26
The has been at the core of AA for years
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/12-step
To assert the CIA is responsible for the current ongoing heroin-with-fentanyl opioid crisis in America is to give a huge pass to big pharma, China's government, regular smuggling operations out of asia/pacific/south America, etc.
Only some kind of Faux News Breit-tarded moron would conflate the Iran Contra or MKUltra stories of ~30-50 years ago with the current crisis that's killing more Americans than heart disease or car crashes now.
Thank you opioids for removing another degenerate!
U.S. drug overdose deaths continue to rise; increase fueled by synthetic opioids
CDC’s analysis, based on 2015-2016 data from 31 states and Washington, D.C., showed:
* Across demographic categories, the largest increase in opioid overdose death rates was in males between the ages of 25-44.
* Overall drug overdose death rates increased by 21.5 percent.
** The overdose death rate from synthetic opioids (other than methadone) more than doubled, likely driven by illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF).
** The prescription opioid-related overdose death rate increased by 10.6 percent.
** The heroin-related overdose death rate increased by 19.5 percent.
** The cocaine-related overdose death rate increased by 52.4 percent.
** The psychostimulant-related overdose death rate increased by 33.3 percent.
* Fourteen states had significant increases in death rates involving psychostimulants; the highest death rates occurred primarily in the Midwest and Western regions.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
^^ Don't feed the zero-information Republican troll clown. You'll only make it fatter and lazier.
Let's see how tough you think you are.
What addiction would be related to breathing suppression
Hey man, I did say sea-urchins.
Also have you HEARD a heavy smoker trying to breathe?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Basically the video does not live up to their standard, takes only one source, is disputed etc...etc... Frankly "addiction as a sole psychological explanation" is kookery of the highest grade, and match scientology stuff.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
O-somebody from the social media...
His name was O'Tierney, but his mother's name was just Tierney?
Never heard of that before.
Otherwise a loss of another good person...
Addiction to *what*? Cocaine? Autoerotic Asphyxiation? Uranium?
Caffeine does not distort perception. Like aspirin, and other such things long allowed over-the-counter, it has an EFFECT on the physiology but it is not mind-altering as that term is classicly used. Nobody who drinks a coffee or takes an aspririn for a headache ends up thinking he's covered in alien spiders, or rants at raves in a hyper state, or gets all dreamy about a stain on the wall.
For historical and cultural reasons, western civ has long accepted alcoholic drinks, which are certainly mind altering, but considered in the food&beverage category rather than the drug category - they are most-frequently consumed by normal people not addicted. and when the effects expire they generally do not leave the user delusional. Mind you, the use of alcohol was so bad in the US that by about 1920 the products were banned (prohibition). When prohibition ended about a dozen years later, the country had so dried-out that it has never swung back to anything like the booze-soaked place it previously was. It's also interesting to observe the national health stats after prohibition; rates of kidney and liver disease plummeted and stayed much lower thereafter. Whether one likes his beer and liquor or not, the health benefits for millions from that national time-out were remarkable.
and I'm no addict-hugging liberal, but they are still humans and even if they refuse to acknowledge it themselves.
We care about people for the same reason people have Constitutional rights - not because the majority of people say they are valuable (any majority can take away anything any other majority has granted), but because individual human beings have God-given inherent value, rights and responsibilities. If somebody is sufficiently toxic in abusing those rights, avoiding those responsibilities, and camouflaging that dignity, then society may well find it necessary to put them aside into some form of institution, but even then it's not done because they have ceased to be human but rather to preserve the God-given rights and dignity of the rest of society -- and if possible to restore them to normality and preserve their dignity and rights.
It's a very dark and slippery slope we proceed down that begins with the declaration that somebody is no longer human. Turn away from that idea if for no other reason than to preserve your own humanity.
Perhaps he was addicted to addiction itself?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
No, lightning will not strike you, but you are ultimately morally accountable.
I do not know what set you off on this oddball set of posts around the internet in which you try to make it look like the Bible claims basic astophysics wrong - something it does not claim.
The old Earth-centered universe idea that a long-discredited pope used to justify the persecution of Galileo, was a model the Catholic church (the only Christian denomination to fall for it) borrowed from the secular "science" of the day - That is why that model is called "the Ptolemaic system" rather than being named after a pope (as the Gregorian calendar is named after pope Gregory). When the secular world changed its mind, the Catholics were stuck because one of their popes had stupidly embraced the earlier secula idea and given it a religious stamp of TRUTH. The current Pope ought to be mindful of this bit of historical nastiness as he currently cuddles up to the IPCC.
A second point: NEVER read a Bible verse! Sentences in the Bible, often referred to as verses given that some are lines of poetry and others are bits of song lyrics, are NOT individual fragments of stand-alone wisdom; they're numbered only as a system of scholarly navigation from an era when books were not printed and therefore the page something ended up on was related to the size of the pages and the size of the lettering on those pages in any individual copy.
Across from my house there is a private drug rehab center. The owner is a former addict himself, inherited some money, and started this as a way to plow back into the community. He claims his center has a roughly 50% success rate versus state-run centers' 10% (lot of variables, this is just supposed to be a ball-park indication). State=non-USA.
A friend's son is a heroin addict and has been in and out of rehab for years (including the above). The stuff basically alters brain structures so that the addict craves this as much as oxygen, no exaggeration. He realizes that the best chance he would have is to be locked up until sufficiently dried out - which is prohibited by law even under consent. I've known the kid since birth (he is now late 20's) and the story is basically one big heartbreak on all sides.
The takeaway message I got is Don't Start. If you're just getting high for recreational reasons, then I believe you're incredibly stupid. If you're using to cope with your particular life circumstances, you're not making them better - you're in fact creating even more trouble for yourself that will make it even harder to cope with (by a lot). Addicted in the womb? That really sucks. Still, others have overcome even that. Don't find justifications and excuses, come out of the victim mentality and seek solutions until you find one.
addicted to porn ? or was it masturbation ? ok enough with the funny stuff. the title in the article states it may be related to some addiction but then says they don't know....great article /sarcasm
Or even the OP linked video ? The first post in the addiction video is from kurzgesagt saying they will remove the video , and delete it (hey you can even google it https://www.reddit.com/r/video...). In the second the one I linked, they themselves say those 2 video did not match standard they set themselves, cited only one source etc.... Well whatever.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org