Bus doors should always open outwards. It’s just logic: inwards-opening doors take up space that could otherwise be filled by passengers.
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Urgent messages
Phone calls differ from messages by their urgency. If someone is calling me unexpectedly, something must have gone wrong.
But sometimes I want to send an informative message that I want to get noticed immediately. There should be a way to make a message ring like an incoming call.
Discounts are not gifts
Every birthday I get reminded about how many companies have collected my information.
Besides sending me distracting and soulless messages, they give discounts for their products. Some happen to call them gifts. Discounts are not gifts!
A gift is actually something, physical or not. A discount is a possibility to get that something easier.
Imagine if a friend gave you a coupon as a present. Not a gift card, but a coupon. How would you feel?
Seriously, a conditionless free cup of tea is better than a discount “as a gift”, especially knowing that most customers aren’t abusers and will probably buy something else.
The wider problem. Flight shaming
When something seems like a solution to a problem, look beyond.
Greta Thunberg insists on shaming people for flying. She even forced her mother — an opera singer — not to hop on a world tour. While some voyages are faster and cheaper by rail than by plane (Genoa to Rome, for instance), others are not.
Don’t tell me to take a five-day train from Moscow to Sanremo because it’s better for the environment. It might not be. It’s a waste of time to spend five days instead of eight hours to get from one place to another. During the extra four days in Sanremo I could have invented something that would in the long-term help the planet more.
If businesspeople were to cancel their flights to meetings “in order to save the planet” we as a society could be losing more: breakthrough ideas would not be shared, so new products would not be created, therefore the economy would not develop faster and polluting factories would exist for longer.
The death penalty
Death penalty as a punishment is unacceptable. Death is bad whether it’s Stalin’s or Einstein’s: a corpse can’t acknowledge own mistakes and become better.
Conspiracy theory videos
- A conspiracy theory video gets lowered down in the index because it is nonsense.
- The author of the video claims that it was lowered down because the conspirators want to hide the truth.
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QR codes
It’s a bad scenario when QR codes are being scanned by a human. It’s a good one a human approaches a machine that scans his or her QR code.
But the latter is just a cheaper option instead of NFC.
Stacking knowledge
In first grade, they tell you X.
In the third, they tell you it’s untrue: the reality is much more complex than what you were first told.
Nobody should be mistold things just because he or she is on Level One. Instead, knowledge should be stacked with progress in detail.
Where to eat in Italy
Any food place in Italy is good except for the really shady ones.
Autorenewals and commonsense
This came in the mail today:
Your WhoisGuard subscription listed below is expiring soon.
Act fast and renew WhoisGuard today to keep contact information attached to your domain hidden in public Whois.
It’s FREE to renew, so make sure that your privacy remains protected.
This is an example of bad design. If it’s free to renew, why don’t I have WhoisGuard set until hell freezes over?
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