• auradragon1@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Here’s the top upvoted story on HackerNews right now.

    One of the greatest user interface disasters in history https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/111490485825183949

    Basically, US Navy ship had bad UX for a system and shot down an Iran Airliner that killed 290 people.

    Here’s the first comment. It’s spot on.

    Everything’s possible, but there would be no debate about UI mistakes if it was Iran shooting down a US plane. They would’ve done because they are evil by nature, or at least perceived as such. In that case the media and the public buys into its own reality, but of course the UI discussion could be a distraction from the public maybe starting to question if that’s actually the reality.

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      1 year ago

      Absolutely, but either that’s true, or it’s just the US showing that they are better at PR than their adversaries.

      Either way, it doesn’t have much to do with how the entire world should be putting up barriers for China to do trade. It’s simply not fair that the worlds 2nd largest economy is closed off to foreign competition.

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        It’s simply not fair that the worlds 2nd largest economy is closed off to foreign competition.

        I just went to China. Countless foreign brands everywhere. Audi and BMW sell more cars in China than in Europe and the US. McDonalds everywhere. Starbucks everywhere.

        Meanwhile, the US is doing everything possible to prevent Chinese companies from competing with American car makers, solar panel producers, 5G equipment makers, phone competitors, etc.