Zach Anner recently did something similar showing just how long it takes to get across New York when in a wheelchair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhpUJRGrZgc

I know of a hardware manufacture who used to put concrete into their DVD players to give them that quality heavy feel

Are you sure that wasn't to dampen vibrations which might affect (or even themselves be caused by) spinning the disk and movements of the read head? (Same reason there's concrete blocks in the base of a washing machine)

A little NSFW. Was expecting cartoon cute instead got cartoon sexy

I am a little confused as to how that is ironic. Strikes me as anything but that

To vastly over-simplify our economy, we usually expect people with greater ability to pay to pay the same or more for substitutable goods. For example, people with more money can buy fancy coffee from starbucks, while typically people who can't afford that will make do with instant coffee.

In this case, the people with the greater ability to pay have to pay less.

That seems ironic to me, even though I know enough about the economy to understand why it happens.

There are far more English lit grads that are competing for any job with a "publisher" or "journalism"

Also newspapers are well known for poverty level wages even when they had 30% profit margin.

A major publisher can pick and chose from ox-bridge grads who got a first.

Is this just not doing the same as the app currently does? It takes your location and provides a number of filters based on that. I'm not sure how them providing a filter around uber's location is any different, in regards to a users's privacy, to them providing a filter when you are in Paris for example

All of their "satisfied customers" look to be just random stock photos that appear on a bunch of different websites I am not sure I would be keen to hand my keys over to them

They actually are stock photos. Do a Google reverse image search. I see some 1,000+ results.