Let’s see, an odd chance of extinction in several million years due to an asteroid or certain extinction within several hundred years due to a climate catastrophe, which one should we prioritize? Hmmm.
Firefox UI is absolute shit. Takes ages to figure out what the fucking buttons do because who needs labels?!
Chromes is no better, just speaks to the current situation and lack of UX professionals on the dev teams.
Wire cutter is manipulation masked in honest reviews. I’ll say the unpopular because people are so hellbent on convincing themselves those reviews give a damn about products with no affiliate links. Oh “but they make recommendations for nonadfiliated products!” Yeah, what percentage of the whole is that? Mmmmmmmhmmmm.
I used to watch cable tv when it was ad free. Then ads came about and I was really baffled why anyone would pay to watch ads. That was the end of cable for me many many years ago.
Also, I’ll never forget the first day I saw and ad in the movie theatre. That was mostly the end of theatres for me except on some occasions.
I’m guessing millions of people feel the way you do. I certainly do. My wife was really depressed about climate change to the point where she saw no reason for living. It took us a long time, moving countries and changing everything about our lives for her to move on from that feeling. Now, I’m the one who feels hopeless. It feels like a lost cause.
I’m 33, my car had a touch screen display and the Bluetooth sync function is 3 clicks deep. If I were to start driving right away, it becomes a huge hassle to try to sync to Bluetooth. Doesn’t help that you can access the first 2 screens but the 3rd is locked since I’m driving. It’s as if some engineer somewhere thought the 3rd screen is more distracting than the first 2. I always imagine how easy it would be to have a physical button I can just click any time. Ahh the days of modern design... gotta love it.
This might work if you live in a decent neighborhood. I lived in a shitty part of town in my teens and both of the neighbors on either side of us were total degenerates. One dealt drugs out of his house and the other had zero respect for people’s sleep - played loude music at 2 am and had druggies hang around the house. Talking to ether one was pointless. I usually just called cops right away and for the most part it worked well.
It doesn’t help that everything is now a landing page, people must be able to skim through. Long text is bad! Must convert to customer!
The internet has been commercialized to the point where it’s no longer exciting to browse. I stay on HN and mostly read reactions to posts without opening the post link.
Retargetting is a curse that needs to be eliminated. The idea of following people for up to (30?) days without an easy opt out is just so wrong. Just because I visited your website doesn’t mean I care to buy what you sell, no matter how long you stalk me.
It depends on a lot of things including intended audience, function you are trying to achieve, brand perception, if this is meant to be part of a larger overall experience, users device etc...
Frankly, I agree with you. I design and I too find this on the opposite spectrum of what I’d consider useful or beneficial. I don’t say this to belittle the effort that went into creating this, speaking strictly from utility angle.
As a UX person I really don’t get why people try so hard to ruin a good experience by adding animations. This stuff is great for ego building but terrible in terms of providing any value to a user. Other than a short burst of dopamine you might get from that “oh neat!” feeling, I just don’t see the point.
I used to be a supporter of bitcoin but then I gave it some long thought and realized bitcoin will never make it as intended. The very essence that makes bitcoin appealing is what keeps it from being user friendly and functioning safely. Once you try to fudge with that, you undermine everything bitcoin is supposed to address. There is just no way around it.
The solution is likely a multi-faceted approach on all levels of society - policy, private enterprises, consumer, personal habits, education, social initiatives etc...
We need to be doing everything, not one or two things.
I think asking the West to change is an impossible task, but putting in place policy to guide decisions and to bring about mass education regarding environment is probably a step in the right direction.
Sorry should have made it clear was referring to index in the article S&P 500. And no, most hedge funds can’t even match it. Once you figure in the fees they actually make less money for their clients. It’s known facts, look at historical returns. Sure, there are some that do much better for 15 years and then lose most of the extra wins in one year, still figure in the fees for investor and it’s never worth it. You have better odds at the roulette table just doing your own gambling.
I recommend “Common Sense on Mutual Funds” by John C. Bogle on this topic.
Pretty sure Hollywood with all the films about a few thousand people escaping an uninhabitable earth only to settle on a desolate rock is not helping at all. I’m betting people watching that stuff imagine themselves on the escape ship, not as the billions who don’t make it.
Extreme weather conditions will be paradise, not the worst case scenario. When we reach 3 degree mark we are going straight up to 4 and then 5. Between 5 and 6 degrees the world is over in the most spectacular apocalyptic way you can imagine. How far away is this? I’m guessing your kids won’t want to have kids to spare them the suffering of 4 degree rise. At that point we will be fighting wars, billions will need to migrate north, nukes are on the table. The sad thing is, once we get there we have inevitable human extinction. Fresh water and food shortage will be a massive problem. A few or more billion people will die. How you get to extreme weather as the worst case scenario is beyond me. Look at how complex ecological systems are and how they affect one another. Acidification will bring about ocean life extinction and phytoplankton suffocation. Ice will melt, all of it, sea levels will rise, ocean currents totally screwed up, superstorms, flash flooding of biblical proportions will displace everyone in the coastal region. Migrations will trigger wars, food will become a luxury, methane will trap more heat, ozone will poof, enjoy your cancer.
Except, those “rewarded” will suffer the same fate as the rest. This isn’t a Hollywood story, there is no off-planet settlement and won’t be before it’s too late for humanity. I think people underestimate just how fast the shits gonna hit the fan. My guess is my kids will not want to have kids given the environment of their lifetime.
This reads like the most uneducated comment I could ever conceive. Do you honestly believe anything you just said? One simple google search will invalidate everything you say.
Once in the distant future our offsprings will huddle, starved, in refugee camps in northern Canada when our planet undergoes systemic collapse from a runaway carbon cycle. Smoke and alcohol related deaths will be the least of their concerns.
Reddit is one of the easiest places to game because you just have to spend a few minutes skimming through topics to see what that sub will respond to well, then play wolf in sheep’s skin.
There are times when I just want to sit or lay down and do nothing but my wife wont let me. When asked about her problem with this, she says it’s lazy not to do anything. Somehow doing nothing is wrong and everyone is conditioned to judge you for it.