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by maldusiecle 9y ago
I wonder how this applies to pianists who excel at both classical and jazz--Keith Jarrett, for example.
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
> If we're talking about great, innovative artists, I think few of them actually benefit much from the copyright system anyway. This is a really stunning claim and one that needs a lot more defense than you're giving it. I can
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
Is your argument seriously that since innovative artists are a small minority, it's necessarily alright to harm them? You don't see any problem with that?
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
That's a bad fix. There are lots of people I like interacting with, on a normal, non-political basis, that I can't get along with politically. In normal social situations, we get along fine, because it's not normal to constan
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
There are a lot of great artists who put out work that doesn't catch on until 5+ years after they make it. It seems like a large social problem if such creators can't be rewarded for their work; given that this kind of work is usu
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
There's an argument to be made about the payment structure, though. Let's say I listen to music for five hours a day. Four of those hours I'm working, and it's mindless background music. For the last hour, I'm at ho
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
> Our phones control us and tell us what to do when; social media feeds determine how we feel; search engines decide what we think. This really reads like self-satire.
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
> ... the ones who posted blunt statements, or dropped in links with no context. They responded to others’ statements with sharp critiques, “no,” or radio silence I haven't seen many (any?) people fitting this description on my comp
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
You may be reading the causality backwards. My guess is that Reddit's recent changes to policy and crackdowns on abusive communities are to avoid the kinds of controversies that would be damaging for a publicly-traded company.
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
> I would hold any day that the purpose of writing is to have something understood. See, that's exactly the issue. Shakespeare didn't write his sonnets simply to be "understood," he adopted a more difficult language f
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
Seems pretty easy to argue that capitalism is to blame for the attitude you seem to take reflexively: that writing is meant for "business communications" first and foremost. I can't blame anyone for preferring irrationalism o
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
Articles like this seem to deliberately blur categories so as to describe large portions of academia as uncharitably as possible. "Postmodernism" has never been a term with a consistent definition, but even given that, certain cla
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
Might as well mention that the book's full title is "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010", and that Murray is best known for his controversial comments about race in his book The Bell Curve. Suffice it to say,
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
From the article: "But Impossible Foods thinks the essence of a meat lies in a compound called heme, which gives ground beef its color and vaguely metallic taste—thanks to iron in the heme molecule. In blood, heme lives in a protein ca
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
People just go to the movies for the sake of going to the movies. When there are no good options, they choose one of the bad options. The ultimate result is that they go to the movies a lot less frequently, because as much as they like the
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
A good context to this piece would be the recent NYTimes article ("Attacked by Rotten Tomatoes") that claims Rotten Tomatoes is damaging sales for films. Everyone is to blame except for the studios, who are producing bad movies th
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
Convenience is already improved thanks to the internet. It takes a couple minutes to check what's showing in every theater in town, and you can watch trailers and reserve tickets on your phone. Cheaper admissions would definitely be a
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
See, this is exactly why I don't care about IMAX. What difference does a little bit more resolution make, when it's a simple shot with two people talking to each other? How does that benefit from a screen so big that I can hardly
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
I don't agree that choosing a new format and upping ticket prices again is going to get people going to the movies again. Hollywood (and Hollywood commentators) are obsessed with the idea that films should be these huge spectacles, but
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
That's the thing, though--who are these gatekeepers he's imagining? Game studies are growing rapidly in academia. So-called "elite" media (which is, let's face it, much cheaper to consume than the games themselves)
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
I don't know if you've bought an LP before, but many of them have what's called "liner notes," which are long textual notes about the album's contents. If you shrink these down to 1/4 of their size, they a
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
This Twitter thread is just really really bad. The argument it attributes to Benjamin is just not what his essay says at all. In fact, Benjamin was a pioneer in what we'd call "media studies," and he wrote about popular enter
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
> But that's not a big problem; in the CDs, it's just shrunk down to 1/4 its LP size. Get some reading glasses if you have problems seeing that. By the same reasoning, I suppose I should throw out my tablet and replace it
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
Be sure to read all the way to the end for the (no joke) praise of Metallica. I'm no fan of Scruton or respecter of his intellectual prowess, but it does baffle me how willing old-fashioned aesthetes are to carve out exceptions to thei
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
Churchill didn't write 51 volumes as one work; he was very prolific in the sense of many attempted works. Gibbon's six volumes were in a single work, and he wrote a few other shorter works. By the standard of number of attempted w
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
What a bizarre list. Camera Lucida and On Photography are masterpieces that anyone interested in photography as an art form should read, but they don't say a lot about the lives of the artists whose work they describe. Barthes says vir
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
I don't think this is true. Occupations that have very positive social impact can have very high burnout rates--it's not as if burnout and depression are unheard of among teachers and social workers, for instance. You're conf
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
It breaks. But now you're just adding arbitrary conditions. If you want it to loop without breaking when the tempo changes, load it into Simpler, turn off warping, and create loop points around all of the audio that you want. And then
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
It's not arguing by authority, it's arguing by counterexample. Robert Henke doesn't represent all musicians, but he is a musician, so it's not possible that Ableton doesn't reflect the perspective of any musician. A
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by maldusiecle 9y ago
This takes like a second. Drag a sample into an audio track (in arrangement view), copy it, paste it again where the last sample ended, repeat until it goes on as long as you need. Do you not know how to use Ableton at all?

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