Hacker News: dajohnson89

New comment by dajohnson89 in "High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers"

dajohnson89 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:29:03 +0000

What are the health risks?

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Will the rich world’s worker deficit last?"

dajohnson89 — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:42:45 +0000

i associate W2 status with an increased likelihood of getting benefits and job security (yes, i know what at-will employment is).

New comment by dajohnson89 in "How elephants avoid cancer (2015)"

dajohnson89 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:36:18 +0000

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.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (2008)"

dajohnson89 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:49:06 +0000

I believe that specific form is called a limerick.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2"

dajohnson89 — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 17:04:56 +0000

if you accidentally press enter, are you ok with the browser sending that information wherever it does?

New comment by dajohnson89 in "The NFT market bubble has popped?"

dajohnson89 — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:42:04 +0000

what if the terrorists broke up 1mil into 1000 $1000-transfers?

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Daft Punk Break Up"

dajohnson89 — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:03:23 +0000

she did some amazing work with zero-7.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform"

dajohnson89 — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:06:49 +0000

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.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Ask HN: Any tips for a programmer wanting to switch into security?"

dajohnson89 — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:18:47 +0000

could you list some example technologies that exhibit these issues?

New comment by dajohnson89 in "I converted my demoscene font collection to PNG and put it on GitHub"

dajohnson89 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 06:06:33 +0000

is there a good online collection of demoscene videos?

New comment by dajohnson89 in "The Hermeneutical Imperative"

dajohnson89 — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:46:03 +0000

OK. And is there any basic foundation for starting, that enables one to understand Heidegger well? Some kind of primer for continental philosophy?

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016)"

dajohnson89 — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 03:48:09 +0000

dont forget the automobile lobby fighting mass transit.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "U.S. contributes 5 times more ocean plastic than previous estimates"

dajohnson89 — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:23:01 +0000

not sure how common horses are in africa, even before colonialization. garbage wasnt as plentiful back then either.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "U.S. contributes 5 times more ocean plastic than previous estimates"

dajohnson89 — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:15:03 +0000

having garbage trucks that come reliably costs money and infrastructure that often isn't there.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Study helps explain why motivation to learn declines with age"

dajohnson89 — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 07:22:05 +0000

"afterwork study" for work sounds like "work" to me.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications"

dajohnson89 — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:19:37 +0000

to be fair, crypto purchases have a high incidence of chargeback fraud. this is expensive for banks.

edit: i chuckled at the little britain reference :)

New comment by dajohnson89 in "76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space"

dajohnson89 — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:12:28 +0000

I'd love to hear your precise rationale on the financial side.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half a Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn"

dajohnson89 — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 13:05:36 +0000

agreed but the article says that nonanimal sources are more expensive than sharks. so research isn't what's needed, but rather (arguably) things like state provided incentives.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "I sold my side-project for $30k"

dajohnson89 — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:31:11 +0000

i think op is more worried about his data's privacy than whether the app complies with facebook's TOS.

New comment by dajohnson89 in "Who to ignore – bullshit filters"

dajohnson89 — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:07:18 +0000

The huge header image led me to expect some commentary on COVID-19 coverage in the media, which indeed would have been interesting to read. But the article doesnt really talk about that issue in particular. Are we supposed to make some inference as readers? It's confusing.

edit: after looking at the headlines more closely, it seems that it's commentary on early media reports of coronavirus being no more deadly than the flu. Not sure if that is clear-cut bullshit, rather than just uninformed reporting... or maybe they're the same thing :)