The age of average • Hacker News Board

Re: The age of average

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Post by mlhpdx » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 4:06 PM UTC

trgn wrote: post #385

mlhpdx wrote: post #329

I’m clearly in a different world; I see wild diversity in aesthetics and function around me every day. Conformity and convergence? Yes, it’s there but all around it is the beautiful chaos of creativity and divergence.

Can you provide some specific examples from a typical day?

I’m struggling to come up with a useful response here. I’ll focus on things driven by human “decisions” rather than natural phenomena.

Cars are all the same, yet they aren’t - purposes, shapes and colors vary as to the creative and expressive customizations. Music has areas of “sameness” but also throngs of small and bright performances that are far from them.

It’s a bit tongue in cheek, but I do notice people seem prone to take the same photos over and over again. I feel like 1000 years from now they’ll be saying “wtf? why did they do that?”.

Re: The age of average

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Post by eestrada » Thu, Apr 06, 2023, 7:47 PM UTC

stiglitz wrote: post #478

eestrada wrote: post #413

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To bolster this point, the bestselling album of all time is still Michael Jackson's Thriller, released in 1982. So it has been literally over 40 years and nothing else has topped that for mainstream popularity, musically speaking. It has sold over 70 million copies. The next nearest album is AC/DC's Back in Black, released in 1980, at 50 million copies, a 20 million copy difference. A present day musician would be ov…

Album sales have become an increasingly obsolete metric for popularity during the last 20 or so of those 40 years.

That is a good point. It would be interesting to see these same numbers as a ratio against worldwide album sales over time. That would give a better sense of popularity relative to their time.

Re: The age of average

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Post by citizenpaul » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 4:08 PM UTC

marketerinland wrote: post #391

citizenpaul wrote: post #387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Safety is an under appreciated function of car color. I've had a number of same looking cars of different color. I noticed that driving a white version results in substantially less near miss/near accidents while driving. I will only buy white cars now because of this. I'm tired of dodging inattentive drivers that are sleepdriving through their commute or whatever they are doing besides driving.

This ^ I read once that grey cars have the highest possibility of accidents for this exact reason. And since then have only driven white cars.

Thats funny because I didn't know that was a stat however I definitely noticed that my grey car was like an accident magnet from real life experience.