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matrixtransform
9y ago
There's going to need to be some kind of blockchain-style tech that allows the source and veracity of video to be determined.
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matrixtransform
9y ago
Classic "squeezed middle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-class_squeeze "I honestly do NOT believe that I owe anything to poor people." Every human is capable of making a contribution to societ
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matrixtransform
9y ago
Isn't "liberal" often used as an insult in the US by the likes of Ann Coulter and other far-right xenophobic conservatives? I think the confusion is that the term is used for all sorts of things like economic liberals (neo-li
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matrixtransform
9y ago
The Law of Jante seems similar to the british concept of "don't get ideas above your station" which is the cultural expression of the class system which acts as a block on social mobility. In the UK, thanks the the billionair
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matrixtransform
9y ago
It's the same reason why earpods only come in white. It makes them stand out. White iPod headphones were a walking advertisement/status symbol for years.
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matrixtransform
9y ago
I notice that the watch now covers all 3 tentpoles from the original iPhone launch: a phone, an ipod with touch controls and an internet communications device. Of course, the iPhone is now marketed as a multipurpose computing device, a 4k v
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matrixtransform
9y ago
Siri is much the same on the watch, except for when it can't answer a question - on the phone, it says "I found this on the web" which the watch can't do as it doesn't have a browser
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matrixtransform
9y ago
You could cheat by giving the watch to someone else to do a workout for you?
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9y ago
Perhaps he meant "rockstar" in the Ozzy Osbourne sense of the phrase? Flawed, temperamental but still capable of dazzling in the right context :)