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by jrajav 3y ago
This is a take I haven't seen much before, and I'd like to learn more about it. Do you have any sources?
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They were profitable even before the Epic Games acquisition, so any way you count it, yes. It makes sense too. They're one of the premier platforms for small, independent musicians to publish on (including physical releases, not just s
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Did you miss the "with a few million dollars" part? That's more than enough money to be comfortable for your entire life, several lives really, plus enough capital to start any kind of business your passion leads you to. I tr
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I'm not an expert on the science part, but as far as the arts are concerned, IP being inheritable not only does not promote progress, it actively harms it. See: The Marvin Gaye estate and the damage they wreak on the music industry by
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Like many American commenters (I'm guilty of this as well), we assume a US-centric viewpoint a lot online. You're right that these positions are not left leaning worldwide. Unfortunately, they are very much left-leaning viewpoints
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Because creative expression can be exchanged for goods and services? Why should metal, wood, or special paper notes be owned? It's to represent work done and value to other people.
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They just released Ableton Note for iOS, which is absolutely nothing like Live and clearly shares no code nor is meant to grow into it, so I wouldn't hold my breath that they plan anything else in that space soon.
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Maybe just release and sell a complete and polished product? And add significant value to that product again before asking for more money? What about the notion of having enough pride and confidence in your work that you can make a solid va
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This is only an issue on one operating system. Purchasing an application on Windows still comes with absolutely none of this worry. You can still use applications that are decades old on Windows 11. It's very odd that this is now accep
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There's a big difference in earned trust. Waves has had scummy business practices for a long time - price gouging back in the day, and more recently, an "upgrade plan" that amounts to a barely optional subscription already. T
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Typescript is one of the most popular languages in the world at this point and continuing to grow (see Stack Overflow developer survey for the last 3 years). It covers the majority of the mature ecosystem on npm by now. Characterizing it as
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Except that the context here is a state government inhibiting that choice, and they are clearly advocating in support of the worldview behind that.
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So that it helps push https://teenage.engineering/products/tx-6
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That's one of the many problems they've assumed the risk for (along with the reward of profit for solving). There are any number of creative ways to tackle it. Exploiting and abusing labor is not one of the tools they get to have
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The fact that you need to obtain the rights to samples you use has never been about any meaningful or harmful form of 'stealing' in the slightest. It was about harming hip hop and those who created it. Sampling and interpolation i
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Jacob Collier won a grammy for each of his first four albums, has a massive following, is known for pushing the boundaries of practical application of music theory, and is well respected by musicians of every kind. There's a bit more t
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by jrajav 4y ago
No one is stopping anyone from building a single-family neighborhood, if it makes economical sense in the area. Neighborhoods are usually developed as a unit.
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More supply of housing will drive the price of housing down, not up.
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Ignored by nearly everyone in this thread is that this currently affects many Firefox users too. Cloudflare absolutely deserves criticism here for placing their business interests ahead of the open web with extremely aggressive blocking tha
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Ask HN: Have you been served an unexpected Cloudflare captcha on Firefox?
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This seems like it's mostly a very apologist take on Zuckerberg and Musk blaming everyone but themselves for piss poor leadership and decision making. Interesting how this piece is devoid of that very relevant context.
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Does this not all exist already in the form of Pinephone and Firefox OS?
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Federated platforms are definitely relevant right now, as a direct result of the current very public mismanagement of Twitter and resulting public freakout. I've heard Mastodon mentioned at work (where it's not a competitor) and i
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Mostly the calories. Number of meals is a non sequitur, especially with the insane caloric density of the typical American meal.
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No. Having enough energy in your body speeds recovery, which eating helps with, but storing vs burning fat is almost purely down to calories in vs calories out. You can end up storing less fat by using energy to recover (intentional) damage
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If anything seems to "defy" science, it is really just that it concurs with it or hasn't yet been scrutinized by it. Those examples are also the few that survive to the current day - much like "all the music in the 70s w
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by jrajav 4y ago
Are you involved with IA? I'm actually really interested in what your day to day looks like, could you share more?
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Quite a provocative take you have here, given that the most well-documented scandal of the 2016 election was astroturfing by Russian troll farms in collusion with the GOP.
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It's a few clicks in any browsers dev tools or a few more clicks in the settings, and is the same for every website. With a native app the cache could be in any number of places on your hard drive, you have to depend on a function bein
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With you up until the anti-intellectualism. Science is basically one and the same with critical thinking, a key feature of it is being assailable by itself. Casting doubt on "the science" speaks to me of unwillingness to accept sc

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