It's an extremely difficult and dangerous job. The drivers deserve to be paid more than the current wages. Driving ruined my dad's health permanently - the long term costs aren't even factored in usually.
What are the health risks?
Readit Newsdajohnson89 commented on High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers npr.org/2021/10/13/104546... · Posted by u/pseudolus
dajohnson89 commented on Will the rich world’s worker deficit last? economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/lxm
> Serfs were not only expected to provide labour to their “employers”, but to fight for them
That was never expected. It was never going to be expected. Fighting was much too prestigious for serfs to be doing it.
> believe what they believe
This changed over time. Mostly serfs were too unimportant for their non-Christian beliefs to matter. But it was always a formal expectation, and as the centuries went by it did develop into an actual expectation.
> and pledge their fealty.
Indeed. This is the difference between a W2 worker and a contractor; it escapes me why so much public rhetoric focuses on W2 status as if getting it were a victory for the employee.
i associate W2 status with an increased likelihood of getting benefits and job security (yes, i know what at-will employment is).
dajohnson89 commented on How elephants avoid cancer (2015) nature.com/articles/natur... · Posted by u/signa11
Is there a big list of things a human can do, to reduce/minimize their risk of getting cancer? "dont smoke" is obvious but a lot of chemicals/behaviors are less well understood in terms of cancer risk.
Since the early 90s I've used a piano-practice scheme that provides spaced repetition. It greatly reduces the time needed to either (1) learn or (2) memorize pieces. I always feel compelled to cite this poem:
You can get a great deal from rehearsal
If it just has the proper dispersal
You would just be an ass
To do it en masse
Your remembering would turn out much worsal.
I believe that specific form is called a limerick.
My trick for paste without formatting is to throw it in the url bar and copy it back out.
if you accidentally press enter, are you ok with the browser sending that information wherever it does?
dajohnson89 commented on The NFT market bubble has popped? protos.com/nft-market-bub... · Posted by u/dantondwa
"I will never own a home" is not the only reason. The whole financial system is "fuck you this and fuck you that, incl. when you least expect and depend the most, and we won't tell you why". Yesterday here were news about PayPal terminating an account without explanation again (by the way, even when they don't ban you, their verification and customer services are a disaster anyway). This bullshit has to stop. Every person on Earth (even those with questionable reputation or even convicted felons) should be able to wire/accept some reasonable amounts of money (I don't advocate letting terrorists make million-dollar deals) freely, no questions asked, like in cash. It's a basic thing in today world, like eating and shitting.
what if the terrorists broke up 1mil into 1000 $1000-transfers?
Sia was face on during most her first years
she did some amazing work with zero-7.
dajohnson89 commented on Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform shitbowl.com/... · Posted by u/fallingfrog
I tried explaining this to my wife with my laundry pile and she wouldn’t buy it.
I used this to convince my gf to replace her hideous fake tree decoration with a nice bowl for holding stuff instead. This might be the most useful HN post for me ever.
dajohnson89 commented on Ask HN: Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security? · Posted by u/Murgen_
Thanks for sharing that. Aging vulnerability researcher and reverse engineer here and it is both amazing and disheartening to see what most of security work has turned into.
Layers and layers of policies, procedures, and abstractions that mean no one is ever accountable for anything and anyone who knows the details is marginalized as being too much “in the weeds” so they’re left out of the conversation.
could you list some example technologies that exhibit these issues?
After seeing a few of the sites go down it seemed like a good idea to put it under source control. I don't claim rights to any of these works.
is there a good online collection of demoscene videos?