Parzival99

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by Parzival99 4y ago
Yes, agreed, it's definitely a much bigger network & economic problem than a technical one. Blogs, discogs and national radio actually work a lot better for me for discovery, simply because, as you say, Spotify may not even have th
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by Parzival99 4y ago
Totally agree about discogs. For music outside the western world in particular, discogs is a godsend.
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by Parzival99 4y ago
The premise (i.e., a singular 'music streaming' platform is what one should 'judge' Spotify against) is itself what I would reject in this case. e.g, for Indian classical, you're much better off with a whole constel
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by Parzival99 4y ago
This might possibly be true for the types of music you named. Try it with world music in general (e.g,. south asian or middle eastern music) and you'll come across severe limitations and suggestions that simply do not work. Spotify doe
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by Parzival99 4y ago
"Really brilliant people, the kind of people that can take different ideas from different sources and synthesize them into new things, they don’t read books in this way. They just read them. If they do take notes, it’s to check somethi
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by Parzival99 4y ago
lmao, feeling left out with no brown list then.
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by Parzival99 4y ago
"know what you want to watch beforehand" - 100% this. Over at least the past few years, this is almost entirely what I do and it has helped youtube remain a good experience for me. In general, I rarely do research on youtube or tw
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by Parzival99 4y ago
Yes, fair. And I actually agree with you. But if on a technicality Modi isn't in power in 2032 and say Yogi Adityanath or someone is, I'd still treat your prediction as a correct one!
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by Parzival99 4y ago
Not a bad attempt. And I know this is all just a bit silly fun, but I'd prefer such predictions to reflect a world view/philosophy of how one thinks society will be designed (same or different) in that future. Some of these are to
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by Parzival99 5y ago
Yeah, things are perhaps different in the developing countries markets in Asia (maybe even the developed countries). In India, physical books have always been a lot more popular (and still are) since books are a lot cheaper than in the US (
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by Parzival99 5y ago
This is a slippery slope I think (even letting aside the fact that frequently such a cost-benefit invariably comes down to 'hey, the cost borne is skewed more towards the poor, while the benefits are skewed more towards the rich /
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by Parzival99 6y ago
Agreed. Though, to be fair, even the CEO of Flexport initially dismissed this, saying "I assume they'll have it fixed in a day or two. And anyways there's such a backlog of ships waiting to unload at the ports of arrival that
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by Parzival99 6y ago
Jill Lepore discussed this in her New Yorker article when discussing Linda Colley's new book, The Gun, the Ship & the Pen. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/when-constitut...