cordellwren

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by cordellwren 3y ago
Most apps widely used in Korea are homegrown. They have enough content to dominate the market.
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by cordellwren 3y ago
You're plainly uninformed. The Korean equivalent of FAANG (네카라쿠배당토) are all completely different corporate entities, and the biggest apps outside of that are mostly startups. Also, what government support? Like specifically? Why on ear
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by cordellwren 3y ago
Korean "homegrown" apps are usually more successful domestically. They don't need help from the government when US-based apps are years late to the game, not well localized, and not competitive feature-wise. The Youtubes and
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by cordellwren 3y ago
Audiation is a basic skill for any instrument. Accomplished musicians are trivially able to improvise complex melodies that they can play and sing simultaneously.
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by cordellwren 5y ago
The Spanish flu didn't originate in Spain -- its origins are disputed, but it was first observed in the US. I'm surprised you didn't get this memo by now, but Spain gained that ignominy only by being the sole country to not a
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by cordellwren 6y ago
It's no longer musical notation, but audio recordings that are the "text," or primary source for popular music. This principle applies even only from a practical perspective, as the pedagogy of popular music has a heavy empha
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by cordellwren 6y ago
Having such freedom available is of no use if people won't make use of it. You assume a "nanny web" is about taking away these freedoms, when in fact it's about incentivizing people to actually utilize them. I agree with
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by cordellwren 6y ago
Just like people, not markets, create deadweight loss, rent, and negative externalities, and people, not institutions, cause systemic racism? /s The web is a complex system that is more than capable of producing outcomes that are drast
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by cordellwren 6y ago
No, anticompetitive behavior is not determined with a single question. It's a whole field of study. You may as well say companies evaluate their code by the single criteria of "how fast does it run?" With a price artifically
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by cordellwren 6y ago
Your argument presumes that the natural tendency of the web is to foster a free and open market of ideas, rather than a system of closed echo chambers each inhabiting distinct realities in a post-truth landscape. That by no means seems to b
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by cordellwren 6y ago
Predatory pricing is the issue here, not high cost of entry. Anti-competitive activities have specific definitions rooted in the study of industrial organization. You can't go around making judgment calls based on what seems intuitivel
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by cordellwren 6y ago
The exact same could be said about Freedom of Speech itself. Or any other fundamental freedom/privilege for that matter. Potential for abuse is grounds for mitigation, not wholesale curtailment.
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by cordellwren 6y ago
Agree with everything you said except for the fact that you seem to be using "communist" to mean "authoritarian/fascist."
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by cordellwren 6y ago
Nobody's looking for "less clicks" when choosing social media platforms. The product sold by a social media platform is its network of users. There are many alternative services out there that may be functionally equivalent o
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by cordellwren 6y ago
I see. I took "extremely regular" to mean conforming to an equidistant grid structure, while you seem to have been talking about the consistency in repetition that makes it a groove. Regardless, the context of this discussion was
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by cordellwren 6y ago
I was remarking on your comment that timing variation is noise, as you're relegating far too much into that category due to your narrow view on what counts as musical intent. Rhythmic variations can be highly irregular and even seeming
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by cordellwren 6y ago
Consistent microtiming deviations or other forms of "expressive timing" are an essential element to "groove" or rhythmic "feel" in almost all modern popular styles of music. Things can get even crazier with wor
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by cordellwren 7y ago
Except self-sufficiency in critical industries like food and fuel ARE prime examples of things that any sane country fights tooth and nail for even today. The US has been pushing for increased rice exports to South Korea and Japan for decad
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by cordellwren 7y ago
I've edited the comment to clarify, but you're right that they're functionally similar. I was talking mainly in terms of user experience, though. Setting up multiple separate profiles with much the same options and extensions
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by cordellwren 7y ago
No, Profiles are an entirely separate feature that Firefox also has. Setting up separate profiles for every major site could achieve something similar, but that would obviously be unimaginably inconvenient. Containers are like sandboxed vir