Lately I am reading into the cause of the diabetic pandemic. It's kind of shocking to read that our food is to blame and food companies are blocking change.
Somehow this 'fat is bad' lie came into the world. We have been eating fat for thousands of years. Fat is full of all kinds of stuff the body needs. The brain can tell us when we ate enough fat so we feel full. The body can handle fat very well so it doesn't get stored and we won't grow fat.
But no, fat became wrong and was removed from our food making it tasteless. So sugars are added. This is good news for the food industry because the brain doesn't register when we have enough sugars. So we keep eating.
And this item on HN continues the trend. There is no solution but it's about companies making huge profits over insulin.
I am not against vaccinations but I don't like your comment at all.
You also just have an opinion like everyone else.
When you listen to scientists you will understand it's much more complicated than you are saying.
Take a scientist like Geert Vanden Bossche. He really is a very big name in the world of vaccinations. But he has been warning us that vaccinating everyone during an pandemic of a fast mutating virus is a really bad decision.
I have been building websites for over 20 years and this has always been a problem. 99% of the designers also design texts that perfectly fit the design.
The end result is a bad experience for both the developer, the customer and the end user.
The problem is: a frustrated user is not a leaving user. So as long the users stay at the platform and more money can be made the user experience will be crap.
Spotify has 2 types of users, the creator and consumer. As long as there is more money to be made from the creator user they will also A/B test for that user.
Today everything is focused on making money. The focus on money makes the experience good for the ones that make the money, but for the end user it means everything turns into one giant ad.
That's why Spotify uses tiles instead of tables. The tiles are important for the content producer, not for the Spotify user. A tile can scream at you 'Listen to me!', a row in a table cannot do this.
It shows that Spotify is making more money from content creators than content consumers.
It also has to do with the low entry level. The same happened to PHP. Inexperienced programmers can easily create nice things that look great on the outside.
Libs like React and Vue are stable enough but when you throw in a lot of other dependencies it is always the question how experienced the creators were. And when unstable libs become popular bugs and security issues are exposed, pull requests are created and before you know it a next version is launched that is not backwards compatible.
One problem is that a lot of people in the field are very specialized in just one part of the spectrum. For example Marion Koopmans knows a lot about virusses but doesn't know a lot about immunology. That is totally ok, but also means that her view is limited and is very focused on viruses.