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by jrajav 3y ago
The cited source there is some old Spotify PR. Which, if you dive into, eventually states: > Our current payment agreements lead us to distribute (~)approximately 70% of our gross revenues to master recording and publishing rights (both
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I think 'software developers' in this sense refers to companies developing software (and thus employing designers).
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You're right, I didn't know this. I was under the impression that Spotify self-reported its split and that it wasn't really auditable in any way. Can you link to a source?
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Online app stores, craft stores (Etsy), contracting services (Fiverr), even some other streaming services with direct subscription sales (like Twitch). All also marketplaces where skilled creators are selling the actual value that drives it
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I see your point, but it's mainly this part: > subtract a percentage for themselves Streaming platforms (let's not just pick on Spotify, though they also pay worse than others) just do this arbitrarily. They decide how much to
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Most artists these days self-distribute via platforms like Distrokid, not via a label. Distrokid just passes along streaming revenue, so they don't have any incentive to fight for it. And obviously, artists aren't in any position
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by jrajav 3y ago
Great work! Had no trouble playing the game, and it's a well thought out concept. I know you're invested in the 'perfect pitch' framing, since you mention that you have it in the family. Since it seems like your goal is
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It's possible but for anyone who would actually care to acquire it (i.e. musicians), relative pitch is just as useful for any task that matters and much easier to acquire. Most acquire it by accident. And arguably, perfect pitch isn&#x
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It would be unsurprising if that was all intended from the start as a viral marketing campaign. I don't remember hearing that they ever got in any trouble with Sony, and they're pretty infamous for "taunting" others to s
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I suspect it takes somewhat less time and process to hire somebody, when NOT hiring them by start-of-business on Monday will result in billions in lost stock value.
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No, even this is just a darkly comforting illusion. We like to feel that we as a species are still in control. That yes, we are gutting and destroying natural earth, complicit with modern slavery and war, and that's all terrible and we
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Were you planning to actually contribute something to the conversation, in terms of a counterpoint with additional data to consider? Or just be an aggressive naysayer?
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You're right, I missed that in haste. I do think it's still worthwhile to consider the minimum wage since it applies direct upward pressure on other hourly wages, and the question is "how many Americans are effectively broke.
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That is incorrect. They are at their lowest point in 75 years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1065466/real-nominal-val... There is also deeper nuance to consider, like the fact that essential goods such as gr
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by jrajav 3y ago
Millennials were born centered around 1990. Most of them were in their late teens by the time social media as we know it today really entered the zeitgeist. Even if it's true that social media is distracting in a way that affects educa
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I'm sure the general hopelessness of younger generations has nothing at all to do with the facts that: - They get paid less (in terms of actual purchasing power) than any prior generation in memory. - They are saddled with mountains of
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Read the reviews and don't buy it. This works fantastically as a punishment already without ham-handed, opaque moderation.
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That wasn't ever the topic to begin with, but good job proving the point that books aren't immune from righteous vitriol, now or then. One other thing common between now and then is the pulpit beating about public decency and prot
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BP's entire existence is based on burning fossil fuels, and they're responsible for one of the worst oil-based environmental disasters of the past 20 years. I think it's very fair to assume that any mention of being "gre
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This is explicitly a startup focused forum run by a startup incubator. But I do agree with you, I wish there were more discussion of "boring" businesses here as much as there was railing about using "boring" tech.
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I didn't know this existed! It should see much wider adoption by agencies, and I might even email my reps to say so. It's beyond ridiculous that a for-profit company (ID.me) was awarded a juicy, logo-plastering contract with the I
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At first, from the title, I thought this might be a clever solution to the problem just created out of thin air that 'official' React apps with Next now require "use client" on a large fraction of previously working modu
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> Taco buyers tend to be a much more balanced and pragmatic sort of truck owner, and I seldom find anything obnoxious about them. Not sure why this is I can tell you exactly why, in middle America at least. Buying a Toyota means you prio
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> So if someone shares CP on discord you think they should be given a warning and not permabanned? "Think of the children" is consistently used as an escape hatch to avoid actually doing due diligence in enforcement and moderat
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I've sometimes wondered why not make `-` whitespace dependent to resolve this one. Signed numbers store the sign bit in their representation, so enforcing the sign character to be in the same word also seems reasonable - and is there a
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This is an issue with the productivity gains from automation being siphoned off in general, and we've been boiling that frog for a century plus. We're gonna have to figure out a more sophisticated economic model before too long bu
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Source for either of these claims other than "just imagine?" Of course infrastructure is a concern but I haven't seen any sources that claim we are unprepared to sustain significant EV deployment - and of course it will not e
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by jrajav 3y ago
Just curious, how did you run integer math in JS to compare? Since it doesn't support it natively.
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I, too, find tools hard to use after I intentionally break them. It's unfortunate that Typescript even provides this casting hack, though it's necessary for gradual, optional typing. The very first thing I would do on such a proje
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You're right, it's true that 24-bit reduces the noise floor and extends the dynamic range available. However, 16-bit audio already has a range of -96db (for reference, a quiet recording studio typically has an ambient noise floor

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