CPLX

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by CPLX 5mo ago
Mysteries abound.
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by CPLX 5mo ago
Yeah but the guy said Mexicans are incapable of fixing “anything” in their country. Which makes is clear he has no actual connection to what it’s like to be in Mexico. As someone who has actually done that, and speaks Spanish, and has spent
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by CPLX 5mo ago
The wealthy parts of Mexican cities are substantially more well-managed and upscale than the poor parts of American cities. Of course, on average Mexico is poorer, has a lower GDP per capita, and so on. But the level of ignorance among Amer
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by CPLX 5mo ago
There's no definitely about that at all. The city of Westminster issued a statement that seems fairly clear that they were as surprised as everybody else but are taking steps to protect it.
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by CPLX 5mo ago
Actually it’s a great example of something different, where the person who was original and eventually becomes ubiquitous and groundbreaking and widely imitated to the point where it's hard to understand just how original they actually
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by CPLX 5mo ago
Wait until you hear about outer space and inner space.
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by CPLX 5mo ago
It's hindsight. At the time it was a pretty mainstream opinion that it wasn't music at all, just talking over fake drums and stolen copies of other people's songs. The culture changes.
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by CPLX 5mo ago
This is exactly what everybody said about rap and drum machines and sampling when I was growing up in the mid to late 80s. They were right and wrong. A lot of it was really formulaic bullshit, and much of it doesn't hold up at all. But
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by CPLX 5mo ago
Yeah, of course. That's my plan. But that's just a personal choice. If I made something amazing and I wanted to launch it, I would. And I'm still lost as to how Spotify would classify me under these rules.
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by CPLX 5mo ago
How would this even work though? I'm a real musician and producer/engineer. I've gone on tour, put out several albums, and so on. I've also been involved in the music business and worked with a bunch of really well-known
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by CPLX 5mo ago
That’s not the underlying reason.
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by CPLX 5mo ago
When two things are obviously radically different (a squishy mass of trillions of interconnected carbon based blobs fed by some sort of continuous oxygen based chemical reaction, and a series of distributed transitors on silicon wafers) the
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by CPLX 5mo ago
I am a practicing Zen Buddhist and I wouldn’t agree with this description, at least not in my experience and the community that I’ve participated in. Specifically I would say the concepts of “striving” and “intent” aren’t ones I would use.
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by CPLX 5mo ago
What evidence do you have that a sausage is not functionally equivalent to a cucumber?
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by CPLX 6mo ago
Yes, I am well aware that I have posted my comment on the promotional website for a multi-billion dollar private equity fund. I guess I can think of worse audiences to try to get this message across to, somehow, one person at a time.
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by CPLX 6mo ago
Important thing to know about Derek Thompson is that he has a very specific job in the culture. His job is to present compelling, interesting narratives about why the world is the way it is and what we should do about it that have one speci
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by CPLX 6mo ago
Yes, of course. They are all in on the fraud. This is like the equivalent of this economist joke: https://www.econlib.org/bills-on-the-sidewalk/#:~:text=Kevin... Has anyone not noticed that the Justice Department has l
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by CPLX 6mo ago
There's the occasional top performer that's in on it for sure. But yes, the few insiders are benefiting from higher prices. I know these people personally. I'm telling you that it's true. I can think of one example where
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by CPLX 6mo ago
> Livenation’s profit margins are not very impressive for a business that supposedly has pricing power. Being skeptical of reported profit is a prerequisite for any conversation about entertainment industry accounting. > Are you sugge
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by CPLX 6mo ago
This is not a reasonable take on what's actually happening. It's never been a reasonable take, but posting this today after Live Nation has literally just been found liable by a jury shows deep confusion. The ticket prices are not
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by CPLX 6mo ago
I've been in and around the music business since the 90s. This is not new. There's even a term for it, it's called an "underplay". Just a preference for the artist. If you go for bigger venues and stretch a little b
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by CPLX 6mo ago
I've have a different version of the same thing. My pet peeve is that it constantly interprets questions as instructions. For example, it does a bunch of stuff, and I look at it and I say, "Did we already decide to do [different a
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by CPLX 6mo ago
This is the only reasonable point of view to take on the widespread and obviously unethical outbreak of gambling platforms. The fact that it's downboated and towards the bottom is just a reflection of how far the discourse has fallen.
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by CPLX 6mo ago
Yes I think it's just you. These AI tools are taking over as the main search/discovery vector for websites. Engaging with it is just basic SEO. This isn't really that complicated. For content or media sites it's a differ
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by CPLX 6mo ago
Not really, business websites are generally in the business or serving user-agents like browsers that then convey the information to users. If I tell Claude to go search the web and find me a bunch of links to the websites of restaurants in
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by CPLX 6mo ago
Because we don’t enforce antitrust law in this country and the people that make those decisions profit from the ads.
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by CPLX 6mo ago
Because you’re a business? Why do you have a website in the first place?
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Ask HN: What are you using in 2026 for mobile access to terminal?
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by CPLX 6mo ago
Yeah I was there too and I don’t know what this guy is talking about. Gen X was highly politically active. This was the era of violent in the street anti-globalization clashes like the WTO protests.
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by CPLX 6mo ago
The solution is to not allow concentration of corporate power at this level and to break it up when it happens anyways. The root cause under all this IS government policy. All the giant tech companies are the product of years of already ill

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