I see a huge usability problem here -- Amazon recommends setting the threshold to 99% but has a default setting of 80%.
Doesn't seem like it would take much looking at their analytics to realize that people aren't overriding the default. If they were concerned about false positives they'd have upped the default to match the recommendation by now.

Looking back at the past: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

Not sure why video games are being singled out in the summary -- from the article it sounds like a pretty broad directive that also includes violent movies and any videos related to hunting in the gun department:

Another variable to consider is altitude -- even with other factors taken into account, there's a link between higher altitudes and suicide rates:

"Why might counties at higher altitudes – primarily observed in the western region of the country – be more likely to have higher suicide rates? One reasonable explanation could be the effects of hypoxia, or a deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues. This can influence the body’s metabolism of serotonin, one of the neurotransmitters related to aggressive behavior and suicide. Several studies suggest that chronic hypoxia increases mood disturbances, especially in patients with emotional instability."

http://theconversation.com/the...

Looking back at my trip history, I've been out roughly once a week most months with some gaps when the weather was particularly bad or things got too busy at work to get out for lunch. It's enough to be a nice change of pace for staying in the office.

Cold isn't too bad. I keep an old ski helmet at my desk and ride with the ear pads on in the winter & off in the summer. Between that, a coat, a balaclava & a good pair of gloves it's not too bad when it's cold -- keeping face & hands covered is probably the most important part. The sidewalks & streets are usually cleared of snow / ice well enough to manage.

Summer does get pretty hot (90's occasionally) -- when I rode last summer on hotter days, I needed to bring a towel to dry off & an extra shirt to change into.

I tend not to ride much in the rain -- tried it a few times, but found that while a Goretex jacket keeps me dry while walking, my legs are extended far enough forward on a bike that my pants just get soaked.

We have bike share docks around the downtown area here in Detroit. I've found myself using them a lot more than I'd originally thought I would, despite having a car and multiple bikes.

The big benefits vs other options (I'd imagine that the appeal of scooters is pretty similar):

• It makes a bike accessible when it's not practical to ride in to work. Between the distance from home, poorly maintained roads / sidewalks, and some sketchy areas that I'm not fond of riding through in late evenings or early mornings commuting by bike just isn't a great option for me.
• The range of places I can get to on a lunch break is about 1-2 miles further than I can get to by walking
• Parking for cars in most of the areas that I might go on a lunch break is not guaranteed to be available, expensive when it is, not necessarily close to where I want to go, and adds enough overhead time to a trip that it's almost never viable for trips during the workday.
• Someone else takes care of maintenance
• It's someone else's problem if it gets stolen while it's locked up
• The design tradeoffs for what makes a good bike share bike make it better for short trips around the city and worse for the types of recreational riding that I do outside of work (i.e.: thicker, heavier tires reduce the chance of getting a flat riding over potholes or broken glass but would be a lot more rotational weight than I'd want riding around on a bike path and not at all appropriate for riding on singletrack)
• Unlike a cab, there's no need to wait on anyone else. I can just get on one and go.

I don't ride the scooters here, but I do make frequent use of a bike share membership and imagine that the rationale behind why people ride scooters is pretty similar.

Here's a sample use case where I see the scooters making sense -- going to lunch 1.5 miles away in a crowded city:

1. 30 minutes to walk
2. 20 minutes to take your car (walking to a paid lot or garage + travel in traffic + parking in closer lot / garage, walking the rest of the way)
3. 10 minutes to get a ride from a cab / Lyft / Uber (wait time + travel in traffic)
4. 5 minutes to grab a scooter parked in front of your office and ride it to your destination

Cost-wise, the scooter rental is likely the cheapest (other than walking).

Or the simpler answer: they just asked them what they were doing.

From a different article:

"Researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE) set out to examine the impact of free Wi-Fi on commuter trains.
They surveyed 5,000 rail passengers traveling on Chiltern Railways trains on two major London routes — from/to Birmingham and Aylesbury — over a 40-week period in 2016 and 2017."

The machine that prints the ballot doesn't need to be the same machine that counts the ballot. If you wanted touch-screen systems for improved accessibility, you could have them print out the same type of paper ballot that gets fed into an existing optical scanning machine.

Most of the examples you're describing are examples of a data connection + an additional service.

There's no inherent need or benefit to the end consumer for the two to be bundled together.

If having a non-replaceable battery was key to making devices waterproof, why do the majority of action cameras have replaceable batteries?

There are some non-drug alternatives for dealing with inflammation that have seen positive results from research, namely foods with high amounts of anthocyanins.

As an example: "Efficacy of tart cherry juice in reducing muscle pain during running: a randomized controlled trial":
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874510/

Dominoes actually went much closer to home than you think: https://www.detroitlabs.com/do... Great agile team over there with a commitment to TDD and trying to put out stuff that people have fun using. I'm sure that pulling one over on customers was the last thing on their minds.

Study by Accenture is a pretty big tip off.

Have compared a few so far -- Rhapsody, Pandora, & Amazon Music all seem OK if you're primarily interested in mainstream pop music from the US.

Last.fm was much better for international music (the user-defined tags made things much easier to find).

Now that they're gone, Google Play seems to have the widest catalog worldwide that I've found so far. (What's not available via Google Play can usually be played through the YouTube Music app, which comes free with the subscription).