Most people won't vote Trump. But for the desperate, a rich dude saying he's going to make their lives better may be attractive.
Trump wins in states with above average unemployment (by official statistics that don't include non-participation). http://
Trump says there are 93m unemployed Americans, which is ludicrious. But perhaps it makes his base feel not alone. http://
If you account for retirees, there are still around 21m adults in the US who are either looking for work or have just given up.
People who have stopped looking for work - including those who have given up - aren't counted in unemployment figures.
These poor people who just see jokes everywhere. It's like they have punnelvision.
@adamamyl @jdforrester Most importantly: none of this makes us an iota safer. The only thing that might is a more peaceful foreign policy.
@adamamyl There were some very astute thoughts on media relations coming out of 1930s-era Germany that are very much in practice today.
@adamamyl Perception really is everything. It's weird watching the things I really loved about the UK - its chaotic freedom - being eroded.
@adamamyl Exactly. At the time I remember being irritated that the bins were gone. Innocent times.
@adamamyl It's such a striking difference to the Britain I grew up in. The IRA were literally on a bombing campaign; none of this.
@nayafia I would love to see these pieces collated somewhere. Please keep going!
Happy birthday! And best wishes for a wonderful rotation ahead.
@kylewmahan The weird thing is, I sort of ended up as "the other Ben Ward" *anyway*.
@kylewmahan Bang marry kill needs a thinkpiece. "I arbitrarily rated ten people I barely know. Here's how you can too."
The biggest challenge to creating an indie Netflix is solving the "do I have the right to see this?" problem. It wouldn't be wise to strong-arm every movie into being free. That's an entire industry, and just as they don't have the right to tell us how to build software, we don't have the right to tell them how to distribute their movies.
So, we need the ability to represent a contract, and to tell the owner of the movie who has watched it. Potentially, money is in the mix, meaning we'd need to solve the microtransaction problem. I'm not interested in filling out a credit card number every time I want to watch something.
Then, there's the matter of representing the movie itself. Netflix creates 100+ streaming versions of each title, in order to best match your internet connection and device. It then dynamically switches between those versions depending on your changing Internet connection characteristics. I'm not sure what Netflix's switching window is, and I suspect they change it over time.
So, there's the ability to serve the movie quickly, and in a way that uses your Internet connection efficiently (and is cost-effective for everyone involved).
Finally, there's the ability to find it to begin with (and, in my case, spend 45 minutes deciding what to watch). So you'd need some kind of hub that intelligently filters / categorizes movies. You could write a client that queries this database, so there'd be no need for the hub to remember your preferences or keep track of what you'd watched - that would be on your own site.
Er, I vote someone else writes this. But: this kind of distributed media system could be a boon for indie movies in particular.
@timmmmyboy Yeah! And thanks! Luckily that's all behind me. But it was a good reminder to take better care of myself.
@klischka @martinlindner @knechtomat That's very kind - @erinjo is arguably the genius in the team!
@rsingel @hunterwalk @dansinker STILL ON CEILING ASK ME LATER
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