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Re:The Expanse UI Design on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:26AM (#27288189)
How would having a transparent device improve usability?
I couldn't agree more. Anyone got a tldr to share?
My guess is there are huge profits for the companies that build them.

Some of the motorways in the UK have been under construction for what feels like decades. Surely the same job could be done with machine vision these days!

If you want to make an apple pie you must first invent the universe.
They could start by banning 'conversion therapy'. They been talking about it for years but dragging their heels on it.
Re:Berkson's Paradox on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:15AM (#26577575)
If anyone's impatient like me, this example from wikipedia helped me get it:

> For example, a person may observe from their experience that fast food restaurants in their area which serve good hamburgers tend to serve bad fries and vice versa; but because they would likely not eat anywhere where both were bad, they fail to allow for the large number of restaurants in this category which would weaken or even flip the correlation.

Re:Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere' on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:05AM (#26577513)
I don't think they're saying work anywhere in the world. They're saying work anywhere within the UK, including HQ, local high street branches, at home, or a mixture of the above.
Re:Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips on Thursday February 04, 2021 @08:52AM (#26025287)
Of course, but in my opinion you have no right to complain about how a company behaves if you're aware of how they behave and continue to give them your money.

In addition, a lot of the terrible stuff Amazon does is not illegal but still reprehensible.

Re:Amazon shortchanged drivers $61.7M in tips on Thursday February 04, 2021 @05:53AM (#26024350)
The solution is to stop using Amazon products. The company is hugely exploitative in many ways - we should stop being surprised and just spend our money elsewhere.
Re:Show HN: I made a vegan recipe aggregator to learn GO and GCP on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @08:59AM (#26013626)
Love this, thank you!
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:15AM (#25788667)
A non-profit and opensource meditation app called Medito. https://meditofoundation.org

It's built in Flutter which I am loving. We recognised that there were a lot of Meditation apps that had very expensive monthly fees, profiting from people's suffering and a practice that has been around for thousands of years. We've been around only for about a year and we've had around 400,000 downloads and are quite often to top search result for 'meditation' on the Play Store. Very exciting!