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by ucaetano 8y ago
Spotify with 160 million users in 2017 paid out at least 2.225 billion in royalties to rights holders (It’s probably a little higher). That’s around $13.90 user. YouTube provides the same service (except with video) and CEO Susan Wojcicki
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> This is false. The other standards are irrelevant to this discussion. Technically, you are correct, but still irrelevant.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Source? And the increased flow of ad money to online ads proves you wrong.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Counterfactual: if this spend is that useless, it should be possible to start a competitor that focuses on high-ROI advertising. Exactly! And that's where online ads, user tracking, online-to-offline came in. The whole reason why
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by ucaetano 8y ago
That's the intent. A lot of EU regulations are written in a way that could be interpreted in almost any way, making it impossible to be 100% compliant and leaving you at the mercy of politically-minded regulators.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Heated air enters the bathroom through a duct beneath the tub, warming the bathtub and the floor I can hear the collective yawn of a few million Romans from the afterlife not impressed with this "modern" copy of their tepidar
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Google to Charge Phone Makers for Android Apps in Europe(nytimes.com)
203 points by ucaetano 8y ago|239 comments
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Complying with the EC’s Android decision(blog.google)
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by ucaetano 8y ago
There was a big warning on the screen saying that you're giving access to a 3rd party all to read all your emails. This wasn't something buried deep into a long ToS, this was someone explicitly asking you for the keys to your hous
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Google might, in the sense that they could start, but Google doesn't do (and never has done) what is described. Yep, this is the point where it shows that the author has no idea what this is about. The entire case of the GMail-rea
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by ucaetano 8y ago
You can own copyright on a dataset of facts. A map is a dataset of facts. The MLB stats are a dataset of facts. Copyright doesn't mean that you can't create a work that is similar based on the same facts, it just means that to do
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Quite the opposite. Telemetry data is an intended product, because it allows for improvements to the underlying product and much more (such as mapping, for example). Think of it as Google Analytics. If you run a site and use Google Analytic
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Copyright of a picture of a street isn't a monopoly on that street, you can head over there and take a picture of the street yourself. Other than that, just thing of photographers who spend their life working on photography. Copyright
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Telemetry isn't facts. Taking a picture of something isn't a fact.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Even copying the real world is copyrightable. If you take a picture of a street, you own the copyright to it. Shouldn't you? PS: Not including the weird exceptions in the EU of monuments and such.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Isn't all telemetry data currently copyrighted? Streetview? Pictures of a street? Satellite images? Why would it be public domain? Honest question, I'm not understanding how telemetry data is different than airborne laser scanner
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by ucaetano 8y ago
A lot of the locations look more like POPs, not data centers. The multiple in Brazil are just coloc and meet-me sites run by local companies (UOL, Algar, TIVIT). What a shitty service, WikiLeaks...
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> its potential to compromise security? It's a bingo.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Probably not, having a few large companies benefiting from it compared to the rest of the market reduces competition, resulting in a loss to consumers.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Google may be hurt the least, but I doubt they're a "beneficiary" in economic terms. Quite the opposite, if you pass a 20% tax on every company, except for Google, who gets a 10% tax, it is a beneficiary. Everything is r
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Let me guess, well, maybe the fact that we're born poor? Poverty is the absence of a lot of things. If you're born in a small isolated tribe in the middle of the Amazon, you're poor. Nobody took anything from you, there is al
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Relevant post: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strob...
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Given that nobody here knows the full facts, only the subset of the interpretations published by the WSJ, this is very relevant.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Company finds a security vulnerability caused by a bug. Logs show that it has never been used by anyone. It patches the vulnerability. [Honest question] Should the company announce it publicly? PS: Keeping in mind that this is part of the M
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by ucaetano 8y ago
It isn't just the title, 2/3rds of the article are about index funds: > Are Index Funds Communist? > But when those thoughtful active analysts are replaced with passive index funds, the market stops serving that function. &g
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Not really, 2/3rds of the entire article, plus the title and subtitle are about index funds: > Are Index Funds Communist? > But when those thoughtful active analysts are replaced with passive index funds, the market stops serving
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Yeah, I guess that when the title, subtitle, and half of the entire article are about index funds, the article isn't about index funds.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
No? > Are Index Funds Communist? > But when those thoughtful active analysts are replaced with passive index funds, the market stops serving that function. > Indexing is cheaper, yes, but that's because active management has p
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Of course you'll get oscillations (but the business cycle doesn't have anything to do with it), and you don't even need differential equations. But the point of equilibrium is a Nash Equilibrium, meaning that any deviation fr
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> It's about what happens as more and more assets are robotically allocated via algorithms. Algorithms don't have anything to do with index funds. And again, as more and more funds move to index funds, the returns on active man

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