In my experience corporations and employment are for "socialising profits". As skilled developer I can make good money on my own. In employment I have to sponsor admin stuff, less productive coworkers, shareholders...
Corporations are basically form of social welfare for most people. In past there were less unproductive people attached.
I don't buy risk being shifted. Housing or gold is very conservative investment, and it had good returns.
> Corporations are basically form of social welfare for most people. In past there were less unproductive people attached.
Very true! Unfortunately, those people were almost literally left in the dirt, so of course we wanted society to provide them welfare... and we have all the issues of socialism and free riders. We need to separate welfare of people (which is natural to have free riders, but also necessary cost of a society to maintain itself) and employment/corps who shouldn't be filling the job of welfare providers.
this kinda reminds me of the BS Jobs book[1]. People have been given bullshit jobs as we ran out of need for them in the workforce because America is having a hard time figuring out a way to give those people purpose and economic resources in the absence of a "job".
I read something like that. There was link to Wikipedia article, list of active sportsmen who died in last 150 years, about 50 people. And list of 100+ professional sportsmen who died in last 2 years with sources. Mostly from heart related stuff.
Year 2021 does look like it could stand out more than other years, but I would like to see the deaths normalized by the number of matches that year. Presumably, there have been fewer football matches during the pandemic, which would make 2021 stand out even more if it is true.
There was a study that proved helmets were harmfull. It basically said that cycling has health benefits, and if helmets were compulsory less people will cycle. And more people would die from obesity and relevant healtu issues, than were saved by helmets.
I had a box of attic junk that had about 50cd-r discs with Various bits of data. Mostly old Linux ISO's - I can tell you that over ten years in an attic wiped Sony discs to nothing, damaged Maxwell discs and made Memorex discs auto eject. Various floppies from 1990 or later stored in the same box read just fine... So that blew my mind.
Cannot agree more. I had around 300 CR-R/DVD-R and a couple dozen of DVD-RW disks, of various brands, mostly Sony, Verbatim, or Maxwell. Although those claimed to be able to sustain 10+ years, some even claimed to endure 50+ years, quite a few started to fade in 3 to 5 years and most of them failed when I last check after around 8 years. I might be able to recover a couple of them, but I would say 95% of them were long gone before I checked. It was quite a pity that some videos I archived on those disks were permanently lost. I knew those optical drives could easily become unreadable if the surface got scratched but I did not realize it could just fade away or I could have just keep those I don't want to lose on HDDs. I did not got a chance to check my floppies as my floppy drive got busted and there was really neither much point to get a new driver nor I could easily get one. Data on my HDDs is just fine, even after almost 15 years not been powered on.
Now I'm getting curios on how long my data can retain on a SSD without powering on it...
I had a few dozen CDRs from a couple different manufacturers that I used as backup discs that sat in an air-conditioned dark closet for about five years. None of them were readable without errors. Today none of them are readable at all.
I think the parent commenter is making a funny. CD-Rs were often unreadable within a few years even under ideal conditions. Put one out on your desk where sun from a window can reach it and you might not be able to read the disc in a few months.
You want something cheap, inert, resilient, and unlikely to be repurposed for any other use.
QR codes are one of the first sort of barcodes to come to my mind for storage; but I'm reminded of how poorly they encode text compared to analog characters on a printed page. The printed letters are also a technology that is already known and self documenting. If you can understand the content there's no intermediate representation.
That's how all beds were made prior to the advent of box springs (or modern mattresses, which don't require a separate box spring). Very old beds still have the hooks necessary to hold up the ropes that supported the mattress.
I've seen medieval beds in the UK that were a wooden 'tray' (on legs, or built into a wall) and the guides said a hessian bag was filled with straw (dried stems of wheat/corn/barley; straw and hay are often used interchangeably though, so it might have been dried wild grasses) for bedding.
I assumed poor people slept on the floor with whatever coverings they could muster. Suspended beds seem very decadent.
The stretched fabric, like canvas, over a rectangular frame design seems pretty common and would have surely been a more natural early bed. Similarly hammocks - which I thought were common on ships (at least in the later middle ages).
Guess I've discovered I'd like to read a history of beds!
Corporations are basically form of social welfare for most people. In past there were less unproductive people attached.
I don't buy risk being shifted. Housing or gold is very conservative investment, and it had good returns.