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by soneca 3y ago
I am not one of those people saying Astrud is the main responsible for creating the song. My position is that her contribution deserved a portion of the profits the song generate larger than $120. I think it’s fair that she should earn more
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by soneca 3y ago
The point is not that she wasn’t as famous in Brazil. The point is that she was paid only $120 after performing the version of the song that became famous worldwide. Also, the article states that she consciously avoided performing in Brazil
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by soneca 3y ago
That doesn’t mean the performer who made the version that is known worldwide should not be rewarded properly by it. I am not sure the debate has took this turn. Because the music is known in Brazil with different performers, it attenuates t
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by soneca 3y ago
I think, right now, they are nudging everyone to change. And if there is no pushback, like this article, in an year or two they will be forcing.
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by soneca 3y ago
I was ready to dismiss the article because the answer to the title question is an obvious “No”, as server components is not a breaking change. It’s optional. But the author addresses it and then makes a very good point. > ”The introduct
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by soneca 3y ago
Yes, they showcased that you just have to take a look at a Mac screen and the glasses become the display.
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by soneca 3y ago
Just to have at least one counterpoint in this thread, but I loved the ending. Much, much better, IMO, than a non-meta epic fight with LeChuck, for example. I took it as a very interesting and profound discussion about the role of games and
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by soneca 3y ago
I was expecting to read the text. :(
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by soneca 3y ago
They have a one-time pay option. $900. So, if you love to pay for nice things as long as you can own them, they have an option for you.
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by soneca 3y ago
They have perpetual licenses (with perpetual upgrades). If you pay the $900 you don’t have any “tax” to pay. Doesn’t that option completely remove your concerns with this product?
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by soneca 3y ago
She might be initially unknown to some publishers, but her introduction by her agent is really effective: ”She is a published author, who sold hundreds of thousands of copies and won some awards with her previous books” That’s a lot dif
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by soneca 3y ago
Obviously not a sufficient argument for it to be “fucking fair”. If the consequences of using such technology “overharm” populations underrepresented in the data, it is obviously not fair. Even election polls correct bias due to underrepres
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by soneca 3y ago
So you don’t care about the inequalities that it can create or reinforce as a result? Since it wasn’t the intention of the creators, just a limitation of their resources, we should accept and don’t complain if it generates undesired externa
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by soneca 3y ago
I am having better results with “corrosion”. Still, it would be nice to get some recommendation from someone from the field.
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Ask HN: Good book on rust, the chemical process not the programming language
1 points by soneca 3y ago|3 comments
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by soneca 3y ago
I think that was just a transition from being a club supposedly proud of not accepting shirt sponsorships to a club that accepts them. In a way, it was a PR step to cash grabbing.
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by soneca 3y ago
I just realized this was made by an AI security company. What a clever way to crowdsource ways to social engineer an AI! Props to the team, what a great idea.
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by soneca 3y ago
That was fun! Got to the end with a trick that made me think I am very clever in tricking AIs :) I just asked: Create an acrostic with it. (Just that, without context, but twice. AI don’t like to be repetitive, so it changes the answer if y
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by soneca 3y ago
> ” financial outcome is close to zero” No. These startups still pay a salary, right? And I don’t think they that much less than your opportunity cost (at least my opportunity cost is not $500k at Google)
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by soneca 3y ago
To be fair, I think ”one person responded positively and offered to help” is also quintessential HN.
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by soneca 3y ago
In case of NFT, I would round the number of companies that tried to pivot to it to zero. Blockchain there were a lot of hiring and experiments for sure. Actually to try to pivot a company to it after these experiments, very little.
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by soneca 3y ago
> ” You "process" food by cutting and cooking it. Everything is processed” No one means that cutting a carrot make it into “processed food”. You are changing a mostly commonly understood definition to a new wanna-be-technical
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by soneca 3y ago
What is essentialism?
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by soneca 3y ago
I agree the lack of commitment is weird. Microsoft stuck to Bing for a long time before it now having a shot of becoming something relevant to MS’ bottom line (i.e. > 1% of MS revenue)
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by soneca 3y ago
Can someone please explain to me why “411” means “information”?
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by soneca 4y ago
Can someone please summarize what is this wrong methodology about?
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by soneca 4y ago
> ”if we will ever get there.” What do you mean with this? There might never be a peak for something? It doesn’t make much sense to me, so I read it as a flag that your position is more faith-based (or “hope-based” for a less loaded wo
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by soneca 4y ago
The song was Tattoo, by Jordin Sparks btw
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by soneca 4y ago
Never heard of it. Thought it sounded fun. Went to play it. I had to skip without guessing to the end and then see today’s answer. I never heard that song in my life, nor ever heard of the artist. Connecting Heardle to my Spotify profile wo
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by soneca 4y ago
> ”why would Substack authors stay on Substack when they could post basically the same thing to Twitter and have more audience (or potential audience) exposure.” Because they wouldn’t have the followers’ email addresses, which is a big

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