It’s hard to make a flattering video. TV studios have professional makeup artists and lighting from every angle. It’s a lot easier to take a flattering photo.
As the former PM of a competing dating app, I agree.
Readit Newssirkneeland commented on YouTube was launched as a dating site web.archive.org/web/20050... · Posted by u/ElectronShak
I guess animals often grow to enjoy their cages; had a pal who kinda freaked out when he got out of the pokey too.
Oh yeah: no body cavity searches getting past the gate, we had legroom, free food on the plane, free baggage, and they didn't blare CNN in the airports like some Orwell dystopia, or ads for the airline on the airplane telescreen. The planes were better too; 747 was super common and comfy (now you need to fly the Luftwaffe or British Airways, and the seats aint what they used to be), and if you were loaded, you could take the Concorde across the pond for a price which seems comically cheap these days.
Is it comically cheap if you don't consider inflation?
Because while air travel has undoubtedly gotten less comfortable, in most (if not all?) cases it's also gotten cheaper. With every passing decade air travel because accessible to broader and broader swaths of the economic pyramid. Now it's at the point where the cost of the taxi to a London airport can cost more than the airfare of whatever budget airline flight I'd be on.
I am [not really] too young to have flown on the Concorde, but a Googling of "Concorde flight cost" suggested between $6000 and $12000 round trip for NYC-LON flights. That doesn't strike me as cheap.
sirkneeland commented on American Suburbs Swell Again as a New Generation Escapes the City wsj.com/articles/american... · Posted by u/sndean
This article doesn’t jive whatsoever with my anecdotal experience as an urban dwelling elder millennial.
As my friends and family form families, they either stay in the city.
After all, having a kid or two and staying in NYC or SF is the ultimate status symbol.
Or they move to more livable cities such as Philadelphia from NYC or Austin from SF or Pittsburgh from Chicago.
The exception is moving back to the suburbs to be close to our boomer parents who of course still live there.
Seriously, no one I know my age (35) willingly moves to the suburbs. Curious if this is my bubble or consistent.
Could be a bubble. I'm imminently planning to leave the city for the suburbs (34, newly married)
sirkneeland commented on Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults bbc.co.uk/news/world-4852... · Posted by u/timthorn
Nonsense. The feedback mechanisms are very, very weak. "Choose between X candidates every 4 years" is a ridiculously weak feedback mechanism. Compare a market, where the feedback mechanism is:
- passive (consumer doesn't spend money)
- fluid (trillions of transactions)
also, feedback is more granular by several orders of magnitude. In a political democracy we roll up every single issue (including mutually contradictory ones) into a bundle of policies, multiply that by an uncertainty factor of the personality of the person you are voting for, and then a fraction of us actually turn out to make the decision.
Meanwhile in the market I can decide down to the level of "no, these oranges aren't sufficiently orange-y for me".
I'm no market fundamentalist, mind you. I'd rather find ways to make the public sector more responsive to public feedback than through occasional elections.
The glass roof is not a bad idea. It would be very French to do that. Like the I. M. Pei pyramid at the Louvre. If it's done, it will be done competently. So many people are watching.
Wouldn't that drastically increase the sun exposure on the internal elements and artifacts in the church? Sun damage is noticeable in just a few years, let alone on a time scale of centuries...
sirkneeland commented on Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors twitter.com/ericschmidt/s... · Posted by u/azhenley
Google is not going to sell every g*damn email you ever sent for $$$, but Facebook will and does. So there was never as much profit there for Google as for Facebook because Google was run more ethically.
Wait, how does FB have my sent emails? I'd think sent emails were one of the few things they don't have access to
I get the idea though, that ex-googlers talk about leaving Google for the same reason Harvard grads/dropouts like to work that into their conversations.
Indeed. The more interesting question would be how many Googlers internally talk of people leaving Google as though they've left a religion vs those who meet it with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
sirkneeland commented on KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/edward
There is an update being rolled out for the 8110 that brings support.
buys 8110 immediately
sirkneeland commented on KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/edward
But this doesn't include the Nokia ones, does it?
sirkneeland commented on Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future theglobeandmail.com/opini... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Nobody seems to be taking into consideration rising sea levels etc. It can't be the capital of the future if it's submerged, can it? Same for London and New York.
Ironically enough, the name “Shanghai” (上海) literally means above ("Shang" 上）the sea ("Hai" 海).