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by EADGBE 9y ago
No. Throw the baby out with the bathwater; they said. I've deleted and re-installed Facebook countless times. It doesn't make me any holier, but having the choice of it there and choosing to go without seems like a stronger fight.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
This really does stems down to the lack of building something affordable, even in affordable cities. Most people have it in their heads they need something much better/bigger than they actually do. Every new house built is larger than
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by EADGBE 9y ago
> The guitar player you linked to is making less than a tenth of what someone should hope to make to even think about calling their music income a success. I'd surely hope $7000/month is considered a success. A passive $700&#x2
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Yes, if you're touring. The new way doesn't require this. And is purely gravy on top. I was just giving numbers, not condoning their payout scheme as something to move forward with.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
It's more of the people making the milk realizing they're making pennies on the dollar compared to those machines that distribute the milk.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Independent artists with whole or majority ownership exist and do well on Spotify. For example, a signed artist would have to stream 1,117,021 songs to make $1,260 in a month (what the attached infographic says is minimum wage for a month).
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Yeah, but that was before they thought that was a problem. "This mixtape thing will never take off"
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by EADGBE 9y ago
> But you see, the thing is with commercial music is that the music owner is not a single entity. Great example, but you don't always have to split everything up 100 different ways, either. There is commercial music in almost every
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by EADGBE 9y ago
You don't want to see a portfolio?
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Correction, it doesn't have a glaring bug. More people than I imagined are just really bad at music ear training. Aren't reviews just the best?
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by EADGBE 9y ago
> Using others to manage the land rarely maintains an inherent value to keep you wealthy, at least in the US. Property maintenance contracts aren't nearly as expensive as you might think they are. Even with a mortgage, property taxe
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by EADGBE 9y ago
It's just a pissing match. Too bad our services vanish from thin air when it happens, instead of any actual resolution.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
I believe you can "enable skill X" directly from Alexa. https://venturebeat.com/2016/06/28/alexa-skills-voice/
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by EADGBE 9y ago
When I created my skill I created it for myself. The free t-shirt for being one of the first 1000 skills was a bonus. Even though it has a glaring bug, it still gets more traffic than any of my other personal projects. And Amazon (usually o
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Personally I resent the fact that [Google] has done everything in their power as a company to make it so I cannot stream [YouTube] to my [Fire Stick]. That alone has tarnished my opinion of the company. They had a nice YouTube app, too. The
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by EADGBE 9y ago
When I was reviewing robotic vacuums for potential purchase I was disappointed to understand that most of these (if not all of these) are for the "maintenance" use of cleaning a floor. By that I mean, they will run a rather random
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by EADGBE 9y ago
What's the likelihood of multiple ads targeting multiple groups, probably with different photos? Did they investigate that, or just draw conclusions from one 25-36 y.o.'s Facebook account?
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by EADGBE 9y ago
It's like they have accountants or something.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
A lot of the arguments for getting away from tips are for servers. There's already a solution in place to handle cashless tips for them. They aren't responsible for the transaction fee a lot of processors pass onto the gig economy
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Shhh... that's the not the example they're wanting :)
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Wow, wasn't aware of that issue. Perhaps that's why it isn't as mainstream.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
I haven't used induction, but it could be a game changer if and when it ever comes to the mass market.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
> Plus my dad had the whole Hi-Fi rigged up with lamp cords. He was probably onto something. http://www.zdnet.com/article/coat-hanger-wire-is-just-as-goo...
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by EADGBE 9y ago
So many people are afraid of gas ranges. It's ridiculous. My wife is literally terrified she'll burn the house down. Yet we use a giant gas-powered pressure cooker in the basement to take warm showers and somehow that's okay.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
> I cook a vegetable stew that lasts 4 or 5 meals, then cook my next vegetable stew for the next 4 or 5 meals, and so on. I hope you change it up more often than that. Do you get sick of stew all day every day?
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Their bit rate is embarrassing. Dither and audio frequency drops so terrible I asked myself "why was I paying for this?" That was 2005 It's not any better now.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
In tornado alley, poured concrete is a life-saver. it's also extremely time efficient. 5,000 sq/ft homes' foundations can be fully assembled in a day. It's unusual for you, but you're also not the target market. I s
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Shhh... don't tell them about `new Date()`
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by EADGBE 9y ago
Unfortunately, you're a minority in this.
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by EADGBE 9y ago
To play devil's advocate: everyone = Hacker News Mostly likely not their customers; whom they have a vested interest in keeping money with.

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