azad khalid

working with a Hindi news paper The Man in OPPOSITION.

[Vig @vig_says]

THE FEE HOPPER TESTED UNTIL HIDING IT WORKED THREE TIMES BETTER
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The FTC didn't just catch Hopper hiding a fee. It got the company's own A/B test showing exactly how much hiding it was worth.
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FTC's July 2 complaint: Hopper pre-selected "optional" Tip and VIP Support charges, hidden below the main booking screen until the customer scrolled down

Hopper's own internal testing, quoted in the complaint: 15% of users paid the fee when it was disclosed and unselected. 25% when disclosed and pre-selected. 75% when hidden and pre-selected - same fee, three screens, a 5x jump

Employees called the pattern "tricking users" and "deceptive UX" in their own internal messages - the FTC quotes both phrases directly from the company's records

Tip and VIP Support fees pulled roughly $85.6M combined between 2021 and 2023, per the complaint - $67.6M of it from VIP Support, a service the FTC alleges often delivered an automated message or no response at all

A separate feature, Price Freeze, told buyers their deposit was refundable when the terms said otherwise - the FTC's own consumer testing found 45% believed it was refundable anyway, and 62% didn't know there was a cap on how far the fare could climb before the freeze stopped covering it

Hopper settled for $35M on July 2 - about 40 cents on every dollar the FTC says the fees brought in - and says the practices ended in 2023, before the agency came looking
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Hopper didn't stumble into a 75% pay rate. It ran three versions of the same checkout screen, measured which one made people pay the most, and shipped that one.

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

Late night sushi hits different.

Happiness is a handwritten note from someone you care about — Bình

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

Hot take: the older you get the smaller your circle should be

Reminder: healing isn't linear and that's normal — Mừng

[Astra Robotics @Astra_Robotics]

THIS ROBOT COSTS ABOUT ONE YEAR OF A HUMAN WORKER

The humanoid in this video is UBTECH’s Walker S1, deployed at Lynk & Co’s Chengdu factory. UBTECH doesn’t publish an official sticker price, but third-party estimates put it around $75,000 — roughly the same as a little over one year of median full-time pay in the U.S.

And it’s already doing real factory work: moving materials, sorting parts, working alongside autonomous carts, and learning tasks used in vehicle production. Unlike a worker, the machine is an asset the factory keeps after year one — and the software can keep improving without replacing the body.

It’s not cheaper than a human yet in every sense: UBTECH itself says today’s humanoids can still be only 30–50% as productive as a worker on some tasks. But that’s what makes this interesting — the price is already approaching human labor before the robots have reached human-level productivity.

[0xRick @0x_R1ck]

A CITY SQUARE PUT ONE OF THESE OUT AND NOW KIDS ARE PLAYING FOOTBALL AGAINST IT

They used to rope in a coach for every drill, pay for the hours, and hope he showed up patient enough to kick the ball back a hundred times in a row. Now the robot walks onto the pavement, takes the pass, and plays along with whoever steps up - no fee, no fatigue, no "that's enough for today."

Football was supposed to be safe. Too much balance, too much footwork, too many split-second reads for a machine. Watch it control the ball in a crowded square and that excuse is gone.

A coach costs you by the session. This costs once and plays for years.

Right now it's still a novelty crowds gather to film. In a few years the only question is whether you own the robot on the pitch, or you're the coach it replaced.

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

If I could bottle the smell of wood smoke I would

Accepting what you can't control gets easier with practice, I promise. — Quảng

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

Hard days don't erase your progress.

Sunday afternoons are meant for collecting vintage things. — Trí

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

Authentic Brazilian brigadeiros are a life-changing experience

My cat yelled at me for being five minutes late with dinner and honestly same. — Vân

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

Being 19 means learning something new about yourself every day

Something about white light makes everything feel clean — Phê

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

Always learn something new here

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

The joy of journaling is something I didn't expect. - Nhứt T. Chu

[Shee @MsMuchiri_]

Simple DIY,ups-cycling a plastic led bulb into a garden sprinkler.

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

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[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

SAD NEWS OF ALOK TOMAR
http://www.oppositionnews.com/hindi/hindi/news_group.php?gid=15

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

AMERICA'S HUNGER OF OIL & LIBYA..!
http://www.oppositionnews.com/english/home.php

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

ख़ुश्बुओं की सरज़मीं भारत में इमाम-ए-मक्का, ख़ुश-आमदीद
http://www.oppositionnews.com/english/links/news_group.php?gid=16

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

ख़ुश्बुओं की सरज़मीं भारत में इमाम-ए-मक्का, ख़ुश-आमदीद
http://www.oppositionnews.com/hindi/hindi/news_group.php?gid=16

[azad khalid @azadkhaled]

एक पुलिस ऑफिसर को क्यों ज़िदा जला दिया गया..
http://www.oppositionnews.com/