I guess overpriced products like this are good at generating social media buzz and anchoring the brand as more prestigious. Not much different from gold apple watches or overpriced mac pro wheels. It’s basically free marketing.
And that thing looks like it's built to last a 1000 years.
They nail aesthetics. Good Lord.
0: Were you the company, with that amount of money, you WOULD be able to do the same.
1: Drowning child argument plus social preface of wanting to be "good" & "altruistic" (applies to most humans; amplified by companies).
2: The fact that we need order, EG this. Perhaps most disgusting. By need, I mean that a superintelligent robot can go to a garbage dump & turn chaos into greatest instrumentation of the world, while humans "need" things to be beautiful & neat due to physical limitations.
Knowledge of this leads to celebration of OTHER things, at least in my case.
Were those originally invented by nailing rollerskate trucks under a plank, or what? I'm fairly sure skateboards use bigger -- certainly wider -- trucks nowadays, but rollerskates definitely predate at lest the "modern" (i.e. post-1970s) skateboard boom... Just a WAG.
It a lot bigger than what I imagined. Looking at those picture I thought its size of a keyring.
One can admire their consistency: started with overpriced toys and continue with overpriced toys.
As presented, the designer would get points deducted in a drafting 101 exercise.
>When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ago etc.) are reset to the time at which the post is selected for the front page. The absolute timestamps in the tooltips, like you have discovered, show the actual time in this case.
Welcome to the prestige fidget spinner society.
Sigh.
Legitimately when I feel like society is headed towards the end, I go do volunteer work at a soup kitchen or women's shelter or nursing home or something. It helps me understand that the mess I see online isn't necessarily real.
Not trying to be judgemental, but your comment sounds like you might need to just unplug for a couple weeks. A toy car shouldn't make you question some sinister plot to destroy us. Seriously.
Society has problems, but it's still pretty cool in the world.
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>When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ago etc.) are reset to the time at which the post is selected for the front page. The absolute timestamps in the tooltips, like you have discovered, show the actual time in this case.
Hover over the "minutes ago" string on any of those comments & you'll see the original timestamp. I guess this is a repost, comments got merged, and the "minutes ago" strings are cached/pre-generated from the old thread?
"They rarely show signs of wear" ...
Now?? This is literally the most affordable teenage engineering product I've seen posted on hackernews.
