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> OPINION: Separating ‘gifted’ children hasn’t led to better achievement

This is an opinion piece, it is not evidence based. Why was "OPINION", which is part of the original title, removed?

Design in 2019: CAPSLOCK

How many troll farms exist in the USA? Perhaps they're simply an arm of PR and reputation management nowadays.

Anyway, further evidence that social media is bad for society.

I suspect these moves will continue to accelerate with pro users as Apple continues to offer the current gen MacBook "Pro" with the annoying Touch Bar and unreliable keyboard

It's a biological urge for many, which makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Sure some don't have it, and some control it, but that's clearly not the majority of our species otherwise we wouldn't be so ubiquitous.

>The only way to deal with climate crisis is to lower the population of the planet down to one billion. Possibly without wars and famines.

Who decides who gets depopulated? And how? What if those chosen to be depopulated don't want their population lower? Historically, not many peoples willingly sign up for their own genocide, there is usually significant war.

The "fertility crash" is only impacting the developed world.

As the article directly states, global population projections are set to grow by another 3 billion. I would call that a fertility explosion, not a crash, but most of that population growth will be happening in the undeveloped and developing world rather than the developed world.

Moving will briefly introduce new experiences but you will quickly adjust.

Finding and developing new interests and hobbies is a much better longterm solution.

What makes you think that? There are tons of childless women out there who want families, if that is what you are interested in.

You're looking at the symptom rather than the disease.

The despair is the disease. Drug and alcohol use are from people self-medicating their symptoms.

If anyone cared to address this problem, they'd look at what causes despair. That despair is often from economic and social distress.

Instead, everyone is outraged up on a media and politically driven moral panic about pharmaceutical medication that happens to be rarely abused and is almost never addictive (fewer than 0.1% chance of becoming addicted to prescribed painkillers, study on over 640,000 patients, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27400458).

This is not too surprising for many reasons.

Also, a significant part of modern American culture actively devalues men and thinks of men and masculinity as problematic. This is particularly true within certain political movements and social cultures. That has health consequences, as is already widely known from many studies on various other forms of discrimination and discriminatory movements.

My iPhone 11 Pro pictures look like they've been put through an artistic painting filter when you zoom in on them, it looks strange and smudged.

Making candidates white board is basically an ego driven hazing process, "we had to do this stupid exercise, so you have to as well! Ha ha!"

It also gives people a bad taste in their mouth, don't ever forget the candidate is interviewing the company as well.

The best response is to immediately walk up and leave when asked to white board something, stating something to the effect of "sorry but if this is your company culture, I'm not a good fit". I know several people who have done this and were hired anyway.

Look at a candidates successes and body of work, if their competency isn't obvious from what they have demonstrably accomplished, they probably aren't the right candidate. No amount of white boarding (or the nonsensical "thought exercise" questions) is going to change that.

The polar extremes are good examples? Hardly.

Design is much like politics right now, it's hilariously sad when there is no concept of moderation or a middle ground.

Not surprising when science has become a tool for political and industrial purposes.

Let's not forget there were many light, medium, and dark interfaces before the flat design trend took over UI, but since those pre-flat interfaces were almost always built around usability rather than some stark design theory, they were user friendly, worked, looked fine, were obvious, and were almost never harsh on the eyes.

Somewhat ironically, OLED PWM causes eye fatigue and other problems in a significant number of users.

Anyway, dark backgrounds and dark interfaces can and did exist without participating in the flat design trend.

Also, dark blue text against black or dark gray is absolutely horrible for legibility.

Let's be honest, dark mode is only necessitated by the whole flat design trend which uses glaringly bright whites and stark interfaces.

The flat design trend is so tired, it never looked good, and it promotes bad UX/UI. That has always been my opinion and it has grown only stronger as more bandaids like 'dark mode' are slapped onto it.

Hasn't this always been the case?

Without a verifiable paper trail, why would anyone trust a voting machine?

What would be the point?

And doesn't everyone vote by mail?

This sounds like something you read about in the undeveloped world.

Something is very wrong that this is happening in the USA, let alone a state with the 6th largest GDP in the world.

Surely this is related to a concurrent thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353920

It's the flat design trend. It is unintuitive by design.

I blame the flat design trend, it is not intuitive.

Design is how it works

If it's guesswork, or not working, is it good design?

You know the type, we've all worked with them before.

They also have a dark sky ordinance where various rules, to point lights downward, covers over the tops of them, etc.

More cities should do this, it makes for lovely night skies where you can actually see the stars.

> You're speaking for other people when you can only speak for yourself, and you need to get out more.

Ask 100 random people on any city street where they'd find videos on the web and I am betting 0 of them will come up with any answer resembling yours.

> A not-yet-existent, co-op-owned platform where

Yes, so "not-yet-existent" answers the question. The alternative does not exist.

But you seem like you have an idea fleshed out, so why don't you build this alternate video platform?

Do you have elderly friends or relatives? They're often a good reference point.

This reminds me of trying to explain the "Home" button and Touch ID on an iPhone to an older relative a few years ago. They could not figure out how to reliably unlock the phone and they'd most frequently end up with Siri from holding the button down.

Design is how it works...