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From my understanding desalination plants create a lot of waste that is not being processed. More plants, more waste.

My wife’s uncle became a social recluse after his wife passed away. Everyone in the family sees him as just this odd person, but I’m pretty sure he is either depressed, mentally ill or both. After his wife passed he would not go out of the house for long stretches. He is retired and collects a good pension so money is not an issue. Despite living maybe 20 feet across the street from us, we hardly ever see him. He goes to his mother’s for dinner every day but to catch a glimpse of him is a rare sight. I’d say I’ve seen him maybe twice a year these past few years. It’s unknown what he does at home and how much technology plays a role in his behavior, but I suspect he is a gamer or has some sort of addiction.

I have personally struggled with gaming addiction for years, leaving at times and then getting sucked right back in without any self-control. Just recently I got hooked on Elder scrolls online and it took some struggling to let go. I can say for certain that gaming deepens whatever emotional state of isolation one can experience. Despite having fun, the feeling of loneliness gets stronger. I think if I didn’t have my wife and kid I would probably spend my life hunched over a screen dying while I play an mmo. I would get so depressed I’d probably let go of any form of self-care and fade into a blob of flesh and bodily fluids.

For all the bringing together that technology is supposed to do, I feel like it had a complete opposite effect. Sure, for some it’s awesome to stay in touch with people you wouldn’t have stayed in touch with otherwise, but in general it has made society more closed and people isolated from one another.

The most annoying captchas are the ones that change after selecting them. What da faq do I look like - free labor?!?!

If on mobile you can set to open everything in reader view which removes ads, pop ups and all the nonsense.

Reading that article and the studies it cites makes me lose all faith in DNA evidence. It seems anyone can be carrying anyone else’s DNA at any given time. What’s the point of considering it as evidence?

Problem is private companies do and will have access to this data and will one day do the worst imaginable thing we don’t want them doing.

There is really no way forward with this. Even is legally limited to law enforcement, the data will get hacked, leaked, abused. It’s just a matter of time.

Reminds me of that black mirror episode where you had to pay to mute commercials.

Seeing how many people struggle to pay for every day things and live paycheck to paycheck, I doubt the majority will ever pay for news. News is interesting, but not enough to pay for it. Most of the time the cover is skewed one way or another - too negative, biased. Personally, I can live my whole life not knowing what happens outside my personal circles, who blew up what and what apple did today to google.

If it’s uncomfortable to ask then don’t take my response personally. I don’t do it to be rude, just found this to be the most effective way of making a statement without saying much more - which is more likely to make the cashier upset given my resting tone.

Use reader view. I’ve had mine set to open all links and my life has been much less stressful now that I don’t have to deal with website styles and nonsense the likes of which you describe above. Try it.

I was at the mall one day buying something. The cashier said “what’s your cell number?” My reply was “no”. They looked at me shocked and bewildered but the shock was all mine. Who in their right mind asks for a cell number from a shopper? Any time anyone asks me for phone number I just say “no”, seems to work.

You can always have extramarital kids right?

I don’t follow any rules of thumb. I simply don’t buy anything I don’t absolutely need. I guess I do have a small rule: don’t sweat the small stuff. If I don’t really need it but it makes my life easier somehow then I will buy it without sweating over it. Everything is saved by default. Investments auto topped off. Credit cards auto paid.

The only thing I do is occasionally review my subscriptions to see if there’s anything I can do without. All withdrawals and deposits over 500$ are sent as notifications and I can swipe them away quickly.

I’ve been using reader mode for months and love it. I set it to auto open all links in reader mode and now hardly ever look at the styles version. It’s amazing how much more readable websites become with the extension. I’m also a UX designer, hows that for irony.

Cmon, the goal of UX is not to make anyone “happy”, it’s to get people to be satisfied so that they come back and spend more money. You can justify what you do any way you like, let it feel good, but don’t try to pretend you are not just a cog in the machine.

Just like you don’t advertise dog food to dogs.

Despite the unnecessary beef with the term “user”, the author seems to sugarcoat the only metric that matters at the end of the day - $$$. All of these altruistic reasons designers and app creators claim will help their users is just another way of saying we need more $$$. Let’s be real for a minute and admit that our job as UX designers is to figure out how to squeeze more $$$ out of users.

Introducing “trusted content providers”. Default opt in, opt out only if you acknowledge you’ll be exposed to phishing (red scary screen).

Feels like every point you mention can be designed in a user friendly way. I’m a UX designer and have some ideas for this.

Where I'd you don't mind me asking?

There is an idle plant near San Diego they've been wanting to open for a long time but the residents in surrounding areas fight it tooth and nail. For a changebof scenery, residents in Nagasaki are fighting an ongoing battle (losing but trying) to shut down the plant in the area. I have yet to hear of other cases but so far it seems people living in the vicinity of nuclear plants are not happy.

Are you willing to live next door to a nuclear plant? People don't experience coal related problems unless they live in areas that are heavily polluted. Sure it impacts them and everyone else but it's perceived less harmful.

It always boils down to greed, power and image. "What's that, we need to do a major upgrade? Cuts I to profits, no can do!"

Ask those in charge how close to a plant they are willing to live. I bet most won't live anywhere near. The thought of waking up in a radiated area in the middle of the night as a meltdown occurs is not exactly comforting to anyone. Private entities will always run a risk assessment to calculate whether it's more profitable to turn a blind eye. Most of the time the punishment is a fee that amounts to a slap on the wrist and its back to business as usual. Time heals indeed. Narrative changes. The public is distracted with some flashy personality. People forget and stop caring until it repeats all over again.

Zuck knows the average Facebook use is a "fucking dumbass", hence this is nothing more than his way of pacifying the herds. To give up precise targeting is to leave a lot of money on the table and a drop in share value. There won't be any drastic changes any time soon.

What are you looking to use next? I've thought about a raid NAS but have not brought myself to going through with it.

This is infuriating!!! I wasn't planning on cancelling, but seeing this shit now makes me want to cancel. Thanks for giving me a reason.

8k books. "Author nets 37 cents a book after years of writing"

Firefox UI feels like it was left behind. When I open up Firefox I feel like I've stepped into last decade. I realize this is just a personal opinion but it's strong enough to keep me from using FF. I was also super irritated with their default tab that shows all of the links you visited. I prefer my porn not showing every time I open a new tab. Features like this one, even if easy to disable should be opt in, not opt out. Any company that enables an opt out feature by default will get the boot unless no alternative exists. I know, it's harsh, but I vote with my usage and with my money.

I used to run AdWords regularly. I knew I'd be onto something when I almost broke even. Sometimes I'd be in the hole a bit and that was fine. If I broke even on first attempt, I knew I had a winner. This was affiliate marketing btw. Once I broke even, it was a matter of tweaking, refining, testing and more refining until you're in the green.

That being said, I think it's obvious that I totally disagree with the author. You should run ads. Absolutely. If you get a paid customer right away, that in itself is a much stronger indicator than someone signing up for a freemium product. I find this article carefully crafted to to be somewhat controversial, perhaps on purpose so it reaches the front page of HN. Mission accomplished. Congrats!

What's wrong with a raise just to keep up with inflation? Are managers really this shallow to not understand cost of living goes up regardless?