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by apercu 5y ago
> Even as a free market conservative Interesting that even on hacker news some feel we lead with our political views. lol.
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by apercu 5y ago
> similar salary to senior doctors or lawyers, with a significantly less stressful work environment and shorter working hours. There's so much to unpack here. Some doctors make 400k. Some make 700k. Some make 300k. Some are stressed
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by apercu 6y ago
"Trumps brand is still strong it seems (or at least Republicans think so)" Jeez. In all of my marketing efforts I would never immediately out of the gate alienate 60-65% of my potential customer base. And the Trump brand did nearl
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by apercu 6y ago
There's a lot of nuance here, though. Say that the song kicks around and kicks around a bunch of artists refuse it and then eventually an artist makes some changes to it and personalizes it, records it and makes it big. All of a sudden
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by apercu 6y ago
It feels like in order to have this conversation intelligently, we all need to me on the same page about how royalties work, and the difference in royalty types (at least mechanical vs performance royalties).
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by apercu 6y ago
Because of course it is.
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by apercu 6y ago
Hey man, you try getting headlines (clicks) with the truth all the time.
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by apercu 6y ago
It's unfortunate that there is fear, but if governments didn't try to err on the side of caution and there are issues later, we'd all be pretty upset at those in charge for steaming full speed ahead with warning signs. Realit
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by apercu 6y ago
On one hand I'm sorry to see the tooling and expertise disappear. But perhaps it's (long past) time?
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by apercu 6y ago
Better yet, feed your podcast to an AI for transcription. And host the transcriptions in a wordpress blog. The cost is minimal.
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by apercu 6y ago
It's worse in Canada than it is in large parts of the US. Typical deregulation/capitalism will save us B.S.
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by apercu 6y ago
According to this I'm doing it wrong. And I don't care.
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by apercu 6y ago
Re: loss to culture Anywhere with a thriving local music scene and a community is a loss. Many of my favourite life time memories are live music venues.
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by apercu 6y ago
Both sides, huh? lol
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by apercu 6y ago
I hate to have to sardonically upvote this but Apple has really been losing their way.I find both my iMac and my iPhone to be increasingly nagware-focused, especially because I have zero desire to use iCloud.
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by apercu 6y ago
Maybe a sliding scale based on the companies revenue (or individuals income). Parent company if corporate. If I am a small indie label protecting my artists why should my fee be extravagant? But if I am say, a subsidiary of Disney, maybe I
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by apercu 6y ago
Sure is a lot of smoke. Lots. Don't you think some one should look in to this all a little before we decide "nothing to see here"?
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by apercu 6y ago
> I'm amazed that people sign contracts accepting this kind of restrictions to their lives. I'm amazed that there are people out there who think we have a choice. I would not have my most important clients if I refused to sign
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by apercu 6y ago
In statistics you are what is called an outlier. Many of us on HN came from humble roots and made something of ourselves, but just imagine where you would be if you were politically and economically connected?
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by apercu 6y ago
True, but there are billions of dollars at stake to make you addicted to social media sites, games, etc.
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by apercu 6y ago
"addicted to checking sites like HN" But if we look at the physiology social media sites and the such are triggering your brain in the same way. And if you cold turkey stop all of those things you are addicted to, you will have an
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by apercu 6y ago
So I tried the linux thing off and on for about 6 years. After sun os, unixware, solaris, HP/UX, irix, bsd/freebsd, macOS, windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT and so on. The issue is every time I buy hardware (primarily laptops) there was a l
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by apercu 6y ago
> Unless the system is highly unmeritocratic this does not happen. Say you work at McDonald's and you're a brilliant person. You will soon be promoted and get more options. This sounds not well thought out to me. How many m
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by apercu 6y ago
> The problem being that our economy depends on these people performing such jobs. If an economy depends on young people working fast food service jobs then that economy is stupid and needs to be fixed.
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by apercu 6y ago
For many projects that I've done that are "agile" the budget seems to go out the window....
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by apercu 7y ago
I have worked remotely for 5 years, and for 3 years previously. Let's say I have been working for 25 years. That means 32% of my career has been spent working remotely. And it's been the most productive and personally satisfying p
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by apercu 7y ago
I've used a lot of the same tactics. I find that although I like the "control" of direct projects, I do more and more subcontracted work because I can push a lot of the account and project management back to the company that
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by apercu 7y ago
<RANT>US expatriates are the only expats in the world that have to file annual taxes (and report foreign bank accounts). It's ridiculous for most of us (99% are not tax exiles or tax evaders, we just left the USA for our own reas
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by apercu 7y ago
Sorry, I'm not following why from a licensing perspective it matters if you are running on a bare metal server in your office, a virtual environment on a physical server you own in a co-lo, or on virtual servers you "rent" fr
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by apercu 7y ago
No, the people being talked about go out of their way not to pay taxes. They will pressure the local government to rezone the properties to get away with not paying taxes. Billionaires paying taxes. Lol.

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