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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
A recent scandal in the UK happened when the Mail publicly called a leading politician's father 'evil' as he was a Marxist. He was also a respected academic at a leading institution and fought for Britain against the Nazis, w
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I hate the Mail because it encourages the worst in its audience. I have to believe that if the people that read it and I could reach a compromise if we weren't being so polarized by their reading material. Being "greedy, cynical,
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
That sounds familiar. I know somebody who worked on our student paper that swallowed their beliefs to go and work for the Mail because it was the only paper still hiring. Not believing in it doesn't absolve you from being complicit in
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
This is a fascinating article, but I can't help thinking that I wish they were more technically incompetent so it harmed their business. The Daily Mail has to be one of the most repugnant media organizations and if there is ever a just
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Seems similar in theory (if perhaps not in execution) to the open source epub.js project[0]. [0] http://fchasen.github.io/epub.js/
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
There's an amazing section in the documentary Food, Inc. that deals with the consequences of this in the US. Genuinely disturbing, hopefully this is overturned or at least protested against before it can be enforced.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I'm not sure I fully understand - clearly this is a LinkedIn competitor, but is it pulling data from their API or is it a standalone service?
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
The idea that being employed gives your day-to-day life structure and meaning is hardly a new one, and the rest of the post just came across as a bit smug. Also noted that after clicking through the Amazon affiliate link the top review on t
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
At the risk of crossing the streams, this reminds me of the 4Chan thread also currently on the front page- "Actually interesting post [0 comments]". A very good article, I wish more people I knew had the patience to read it. Perha
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
When I got the email from Eventbrite, my first thought was "oh cool, nice to know they're taking these things seriously", closely followed by "wait, this is really creepy". Still not sure if this is a good thing or
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Absolutely. Work a day job and freelance etc., on the side, but I'm free to drop the extra work if it gets too much and just live off a decent day job. Here in the UK it's tending more and more toward the US model, and I'm no
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
A better comparison would be reviewing a song by uploading it to Soundcloud and then using the 'annotate at this timestamp' feature to review it. If you didn't have permission to do so (as far as I know, Soundcloud has no lic
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
@alex_c is right: the recorded iteration of the song is one licence, and the music and lyrics (covered by the publishing licence) is another. If Rap Genius haven't licensed the music and lyrics, then it's no different legally to f
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Whatever the intent of Rap Genius, at the end of the day, if they're using material that somebody else has the publishing rights to without asking permission, then they need to pay or take it down. Simple as that.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Exactly what I was wondering, especially as it's still not up after a couple of reloads.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Taking a day out now and then is the best advice I think you can give - if you're the sort of person that's always hustling you sometimes get guilty about it, but that one day on the sofa playing video games a month will keep you
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
That's why you use IRC :)
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
This is unbelievably creepy, most of all the 'free trial' part - how is this going to be monetized? Who would pay? Why?
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Is there a mailing list to track this project? I can't see any way of monitoring updates on the page.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
> The evidence seems to be that the bigger the government, the wider the gap between the rich and the poor. This might sound counter-intuitive, but that's the date we have. Could you please link to this evidence? Certainly that doe
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Should probably be updated to reflect the year of the post.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Thanks. Think I prefer to keep my editor and git actions separate but appreciate the reply.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
What does this have over say, git gutter, which gives me at-a-glance change information to my current file?
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
For newer artists though it used to be that labels offered tour support to help with costs. Now, a lot of smaller bands doing national tours that I've spoke to are instead of taking their pay from merch sold while on tour instead using
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I think the bit that is very galling to everybody that works on the ground floor of the industry - that is, the writers, micro-labels, PRs etc that see the artists starting out - is that people keep talking about these majors as if they are
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I don't think music is a dying art form, but the age of larger 'alternative' music having a look-in versus the lowest-common-denominator dross on the radio is definitely on its way out.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
One thing that graph completely fails to address is the fact that economies of scale have massively driven all the good news there. For example, having a massive back catalogue means you can earn more from Spotify or Rdio. Good news for the
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
That's what I thought, read all the way to the end and didn't even find out what the actual threat was. Ridiculous.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Except that after tax and council tax, and energy bills and phone bill (internet and mobile), there is no way you would have that £6.6k in London. It'd be possible in another part of the UK maybe, but not trivial by any means.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Totally agree, I've done other jobs that are so many orders of magnitude worse than programming that it doesn't bear thinking about. For all its flaws, coding rocks as a career.

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