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RTFA: Batteries and electricity storage follow learning curves too One of the downsides of renewable sources is their intermittent supply cycle. The sun doesn’t always shine and th…

I'm in favor of the Black Mirror approach for politicians; Give the people full transparency into politicians' activities. This shouldn't be so controversial, given that they work …

Check out 'Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine' as a counter-example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Speaks_Out_Again... Also worth noting is the Octo…

'White propaganda is fine and even necessary at times' reads just like 'One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.'

Fully agree. The bookstore/library browsing experience is intimately tied to adjacency/serendipity. I love browsing up and down the stacks and looking for whatever catches my eye. …

Agree. Imo downvotes are actually a form of cancelling.

Indeed, the majority of posts here live up to the aphorism of Americans seeing themselves as 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires.'

Great attention grabbing headline, but it ignores the typical user scenarios where PDFs are created. So how is your typical Office worker who is probably using Word going to create…

I printed out an eye chart this week to do just that. I also purchased a device for testing and tracking my vision that I just started with: https://www.eyeque.com/visioncheck/ You…

One of my covid projects is improving my nearsightedness, I'm 20/200+. I've been spending 20 minutes a day doing techniques called Eqyptian Black Dot and Egyptian Letter Gazing plu…

A simpler explanation is profit motive; it doesn't 'pay' to promote free/low cost alternatives. Most of western medicine is geared this way, imo.

I've been using MURAL, Miro and Figma. MURAL and Miro are pretty close, and each has it's strengths, but I prefer MURAL. For a team that doesn't need the bells and whistles, Figma …

Gifs may be fun to watch the first time, but I have to say it drives me crazy to have a bunch of looping animations running all over the screen when i'm trying to focus on somethin…

To me, Brad Porter responded like an engineer, that is, his total focus was on technology and process (valuable, to be sure), but had no human focus. Tim, otoh, did, and that is wh…

A decent overview of Knapp's original process, but not complete by any means. I'm participating right now in Global Virtual Design Sprint 4, being run by Robert Skrobe of Dallas De…

It can be seen as a corrective to 'let the free market decide everything,' which is clearly showing its limitations in responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

It is the ideal for any business, but it definitely is not for the consumer or the economy, and this is why governments enact anti-trust legislation. The government is supposed to …

My wife grew up in the French school system and is a mostly full time mommy, and she has been very active with both our boys (6 and 12) well before the lockdown. When the lockdown …

A few weeks ago, Johnson suggested in public that the US 'take one on the chin' regarding Covid-19. How's that working out for you Boris? I don't care if you think this is inapprop…

I'm a Sr. UX + HMI Designer with some previous front end Dev experience, and was recently laid off. Given the effects of COVID-19, I'm thinking that senior UX jobs may be hard to c…

The Russian Internet Research Agency activity on Facebook was miniscule compared to what was spent by the Clinton and Trump campaigns, not even including PACs. It beggars belief th…

Apparently, the app wasn't wasn't released until Feb 1. Also, The New York Times reported that the Iowa Democratic Party was secretive about using the app, and that it asked that S…

Easy enough to find, here's an editor of the Guardian calling out the President of MEMRI for just that: "The fact is that you gave evidence to Congress claiming that Gallup had fou…