Re:Against the synchronous society
by TeMPOraL on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:06AM
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I suppose you're right; for super-popular, nation-scale things like Superbowl or World Cup, for which there is a strong value in seeing it live, there's no going around peak flushing :).
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Well the World Cup is really international except US ;)
Re:Against the synchronous society
by JoshTriplett on Saturday January 06, 2018 @05:54PM
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It wouldn't be that hard to skew different regions plus or minus one minute; that'd still be close enough to "live" that it wouldn't matter.
Given we have things like Twitter it would matter a lot. I also vividly texting with friends and family on different continents during the last world cup's Germany-Brazil game. A friend actually did have a slight delay and he received my text saying that it's 5-0 before he saw the goal. That was without intentional delay and already was a spoiler although it didn't matter much on that case.