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by caractacus 10y ago
How is market share particularly important when their overall subscriber numbers have rocketed? The entire streaming market is increasing massively atm and all services are growing (well, maybe not Tidal...).
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by caractacus 10y ago
> their prices aren't that much cheaper than taxi's in the UK Really? I find them at least a third cheaper than taxis in London for any trip over about five minutes. I still feel guilty for taking an Uber (and note the differen
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by caractacus 10y ago
comScore reports just under 5m uniques for Vine.co last month. It may be down on the height of its popularity but 5m unique users is a decent mass of people to monetise. Seems an odd thing to kill and not at least try to sell.
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by caractacus 10y ago
The major DSPs in the music space have to license each music company separately. YouTube, Amazon, Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple - all have individual dealings with the majors and with groups of or individual indies. It's definitely not as
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by caractacus 10y ago
So why doesn't this happen in the music industry? And a few exclusives here and there doesn't count. Spotify / Apple / Amazon / Tidal / Deezer have 99.9% of the same content with a few high profile albums that
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Ask HN: R training courses in London
2 points by caractacus 10y ago|0 comments
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by caractacus 10y ago
I wonder how the price changes were marketed and whether people already used to playing Candy Crush knew the cost of gold bars and so had (permanently) made their purchasing decision pre-promotion. "I know that Gold bars cost X, it&#x2
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by caractacus 10y ago
As a runner, I really don't see the point. I have a gps watch (Garmin) that records distance, time, pace, cadence, etc etc and shows it all to me on my wrist. Sure, there are people out there who just want to track a run but the use ca
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by caractacus 10y ago
Uber's stated reason to block tipping. But really, it means passengers don't need to care about working out the tip, feeling bad if they don't leave one or don't leave enough, don't need to carry cash, etc etc. It
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by caractacus 10y ago
> My machine is my own. If I wish to grant other users access to the machine or data on it, cool. That's my choice. If I buy a program to do a task, good. When your program starts taking orders from "nameless faceless someone e
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by caractacus 10y ago
> every bit of media that is “exclusive” to DRM-encumbered formats shows up, every single time, unlocked on file-sharing networks and torrent sites. Incorrect. PC games, software, console games - many of these have not and likely will no
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by caractacus 10y ago
There are services other than bit.ly (like shorte.st and adf.ly) that stick interstitials between clicking the link and reaching the destination. So revenue. That's one reason.
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by caractacus 10y ago
Metafilter. Which works by charging a one-time only $5 membership and a one-week waiting period before you can post. Small enough for someone interested not to worry, large enough to make the trolls go bye-bye.
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Facebook implements Rights Manager – ContentID for uploaded video(musically.com)
2 points by caractacus 10y ago|0 comments
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by caractacus 11y ago
This is NOT a court ruling and NOT law. Yet. Note the word 'advised'. This is a legal opinion from an important individual who looks at the case and tells the court what he thinks. But (i) the court can ignore it or look at the
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by caractacus 11y ago
Hundreds of thousands destroyed ? I think you will have to back that up with some evidence.
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by caractacus 11y ago
The photo of the engineer in what is clearly a cardboard mock-up: http://boom.aero/assets/boom-3-cd0822d52cb5c9ecaac404d5cfd09... .... does not inspire confidence.
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by caractacus 11y ago
> It is so much better than Glassdoor at dissecting salary data. ... perhaps, if you fit in its narrow definitions, share your own salary data, and are happy to 'sign in with linkedin' or give them your email before seeing any
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by caractacus 11y ago
When did I turn from the enthusiastic kid who dreamed of audio-controlled personal assistants like this to a cranky old man who doesn't want anything remotely spy-possible in his house?
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by caractacus 11y ago
No. Kanye is a law unto himself with a vast team of reactive PR people who try and perform damage control as and when needed.
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by caractacus 11y ago
Bookdepository.com is also Amazon owned.
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by caractacus 11y ago
Why would they do this? Remove comments? Unless trolling and racism and abuse were an overwhelming problem on the platform (and I don't believe they were any worse than anywhere else) why would a major platform built on user engageme
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by caractacus 11y ago
This isn't about competing with Spotify. This about having the major labels on board so people can remix and play with and use that content without Soundcloud getting sued into oblivion. Maybe you'll find all of Kanye's album
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by caractacus 11y ago
I am more surprised that Tesla did not make a point of saying 'Elon Musk did not encourage George Hotz to play fast and loose on San Francisco highways to win a bet' and 'there is no formal financial relationship between Tesl
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by caractacus 11y ago
$200 a month? I'm not aware of anyone paying an amount even approaching that. The Sky Sports bundle - which is 7 sports channels, Premier League, etc - is £45 per month at face value and cheaper with negotiation.
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by caractacus 11y ago
For all the crap and insults that get hurled at the music industry, at least they have this figured out on the streaming side. With a few very small exceptions (Taylor Swift on Spotify, Beatles on everything), it's a decision between
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by caractacus 11y ago
Quite. What does it matter to an advertiser selling cars if I also indicate that I like holidays to El Salvador, Dove washing liquid, and videos about giraffes? They will still think that I want to buy a car.
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YouTube to pay the fees of video creators fighting takedowns(nytimes.com)
3 points by caractacus 11y ago|0 comments
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by caractacus 11y ago
They're already hugely popular in China where a lot of the use is streaming tv and movies, via both legal and illegal means (the boundaries blur a lot over there anyway). I bought an Android-based stick from Alibaba a few years ago tha
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by caractacus 11y ago
Your people in the know are wrong. The labels own a very small part of e.g. Spotify - around 5% - and the rest is VC and the founders. Deezer's IPO documents were clear on where the ownership of that service lies.

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