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by jzb 4y ago
Creating art is an enjoyable human activity. I totally agree. But "creating" is subjective. At pretty much every technological step for music in my memory and somewhat before, people have lobbed something like your objection again
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by jzb 4y ago
Threw a couple of things at it - no matter what I proposed it wanted to layer a rap vocal on top of it and didn't really sound anything like what I proposed. (e.g., "70s prog rock instrumental about traveling through space" g
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by jzb 4y ago
As I believe I said in the original comment - finding the coverage at this point is tricky. That was from the late 80s, and digging up the original sources[1] is far more research than I'm willing to do. I don't see you demanding
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by jzb 4y ago
If we want a "liberal, intellectual society" we absolutely have to consider some speech "violence." To use one current example: The people pushing the idea of trans people as "groomers" is violence. It is not a
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by jzb 4y ago
My recollection, which could be faulty, was that people sided with Rushdie but there was a "but he probably shouldn't be so provocative" attached to it. So that tracks with the "entirely without fault" bit, as I rem
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by jzb 4y ago
I've never liked Medium, and your reasons aren't why. It's always been a primary example of building value on someone else's platform. Why? Why should I spend my time building value for you? The "huge pile of shit&q
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by jzb 4y ago
Marketing to people who are eager for your wares is generally regarded as solid business planning, yes. Maybe they did over-order and they're trying to sell to a new crowd. Again, that's kind of a good move if there's demand.
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by jzb 4y ago
I often feel the same, but I think OBS is the name here: OBS may be Open Broadcasting Studio, or Broadcaster Software, but it seems to mostly go by and be referred to as OBS…
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by jzb 4y ago
Really no. The employee doesn’t have that right, it’s not theirs to release unless the employer gives permission.
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by jzb 4y ago
"Canonical profited obscenely" I have to challenge that. Their last revenue numbers that I can find (2020) indicate a moderate profit on a headcount of about 500 people. They've grown pretty well, but that's not the sa
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by jzb 4y ago
"I'm generally hesitant to use free tools from for-profit companies for fear of how they'll later try and monetize, and this is a pretty good case of a company deciding to lure people in then do something really scummy"
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by jzb 4y ago
It knows the license applied to the repository. For a private repo it may not be "released" under that license but planned for release. If AcmeCorp is planning to release - but hasn't - a project under MIT or whatever, they m
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by jzb 4y ago
Yes, because as we all know, service staff have enormous power and dictate restaurant policy. This is why they're so highly paid and aren't abused at all by customers, for example. /s
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by jzb 4y ago
Kind of expected more than a tweet with two screenshots and "more to come."
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by jzb 4y ago
Spotify has plenty of power to change this and it's disingenuous to argue otherwise. Spotify has lobbied hard to affect royalty rates for music / songwriters and keep them low. Certainly the music publishers / labels are als
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by jzb 4y ago
That's good but hardly good enough. No way they drove those deals without the CEO's buy-in.
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by jzb 4y ago
I dunno, maybe if Spotify wasn't spending hundreds of million on podcast deals and actually focusing on what its users want, they wouldn't need to lay people off. Any way you slice it, there's no way that the Rogan deal pays
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by jzb 4y ago
His mistake cost 28% of the company their jobs. Usually mistakes of that magnitude get you fired. Unless you’re the CEO. Then other people get fired and have to deal with the consequences, you play sad for a few days then go play with piles
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by jzb 4y ago
Service jobs tips are part of base pay. Especially wait staff that make below minimum wage.
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by jzb 4y ago
“That's unnecessarily hostile.” Ha! It’s hostile if it’s coming out of your pocket. It’s okay if it’s someone else’s. Got it.
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by jzb 4y ago
"If I had bad service, I should not be obligated to tip. But society has decided that I owe a 15-25% service fee to my waiter even if the service sucked." I wish folks with this attitude got docked some of their pay when their co-
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by jzb 4y ago
Yep. The person who's getting punished here has literally no influence over what percentage is being suggested on the tip screen. Also 18% is diddly. I pretty much tip 20% or more with very few exceptions. Times are hard, prices have g
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by jzb 4y ago
Animal House Cat Rescue: https://www.stlcats.org/ They do great work.
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by jzb 4y ago
But smaller organizations will be missed entirely. My charity is a cat shelter in St. Louis. I’d rather they get my cut than a larger charity that means less to me and has bigger fundraising machinery.
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by jzb 4y ago
Real question: Why defend Apple charging developers $100 a year for the service of developing for their OS? Do we think it costs Apple $100 a year to grant this? The burden should be on Apple to justify this.
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by jzb 4y ago
Being ahead on everything doesn't help if the larger players can pick and choose improvements and learn from your mistakes and adapt. It really doesn't help when the leadership of said car company is erratic and eroding the good
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by jzb 4y ago
"I have trouble believing that someone can be literate yet" Several things here: 1) Perfectly literate people can be computer illiterate for many reasons. That you have trouble accepting this doesn't make it not true. 2) Som
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by jzb 4y ago
"but modern authentication tools have existed for a while now and it's time everyone learned to use them" It's a nice thought, but overall computer literacy is still highly varied, and it likely will be for a very long t
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by jzb 4y ago
“Perhaps couples that meet through friends and family feel more pressure to stay together” My first thought. When your support networks/social networks are intertwined there’s a big disincentive to split up, knowing it’s going to have
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by jzb 4y ago
Indeed. I remember we got two of those at a TV station I worked at in 1997-1998, used mostly for fancy weather 3D effects. The weather guy was so in love with the system. Meanwhile we were still using 3/4” Beta tapes in the editing bay

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