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by wwweston 3y ago
And which developers are going to build past the point of diminishing marginal returns?
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by wwweston 3y ago
Boox Tab Ultra? https://shop.boox.com/products/tab
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by wwweston 3y ago
I’m older than you and still love new music… but have noticed the variation that exists among many of my/your peers. My current theory is that while brain development and age plays a role, the psychological trait openness plays an equa
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by wwweston 3y ago
> the piracy landscape has become much more ergonomic over the last few years. I've already been considering the idea of just buying my media when I want it and see how that compares to my streaming bill. I'm willing to pay for
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by wwweston 3y ago
This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me if it’s true that pods are just water-soluble wrappers around the same detergent. Is there a case that they’re something else?
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by wwweston 3y ago
Having forgotten the old world, how would we know?
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by wwweston 3y ago
It's been about 4 years since I tried WSL (really hoping to replace macOS as a unix workstation with a robust commercial software market) but my file access and socketed-app experience then was definitely anything but seamless.
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by wwweston 3y ago
> First of all, how do you steal an idea? We’re talking about pictures. We're talking about the fruit of someone else's skilled labor and the long labor that went into developing the skills. If you're so certain that&#x2
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by wwweston 3y ago
First, the idea that art is inundated with people who are just in it for the money isn't just wrong it's funny. Who is this crowd of cold dollar-driven people who pass over high-value careers like business, finance, medicine, tec
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by wwweston 3y ago
> This basically reaffirms my belief that Stephen King a midwit Good argument against training AI on his books then, I guess.
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by wwweston 3y ago
> The economics of creation are meaningless if distribution lacks physical scarcity. As if nobody has to actually create the first instance of a given work, it's just copies all the way down. That's why the economics of distr
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by wwweston 3y ago
Even before the digital/internet sea change, this didn't capture the whole music industry. There were artists who made good money off their recordings either because they DIYd it, or found better labels, or negotiated better dea
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by wwweston 3y ago
This was not Spotify vs CD sales. By 2005 everybody (even the labels) knew the writing was on the wall and physical media was going to be legacy niche. Digital retail grew fast from there (faster than CDs replacing tapes for a few years)
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by wwweston 3y ago
> You could replace most of this category with a Markov chain bouncing up and down a simple key without most people even thinking about it That actually makes Spotify worse , because they could have offered that product instead of usi
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by wwweston 3y ago
> Uh... and it's true? If the price of circular saws drop in price, and the demand for hand-made furniture doesn't change, then they'll become cheaper. I don't know whether circular saws are likely to be the biggest i
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by wwweston 3y ago
Might have been interesting to ever find out if this was true. What happened instead was that Spotify led the pricing change by taking capital, cheating policy, and producing a consumption avenue that cut the price by orders of magnitude.
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by wwweston 3y ago
If music was fungible for any other music and a musician's day had an unlimited supply of hours, this might be a reasonable position. There was already "enough" recorded music decades ago that someone could fill all their liv
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by wwweston 3y ago
> Spotify basically killed any money coming from the physical distribution - Worse than piracy, which was inevitable too at the time, but at least you didn't have to pay your lawyers to renegotiate with your label on top of NOT gett
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by wwweston 3y ago
Rent control is a limit on margins. That makes it a declaration that builders can only scale up profits on volume, which is what is necessary anyway in regions that are largely built out but still massively short of supply. Which means that
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by wwweston 3y ago
In a lot of cases rent control doesn’t even apply to new housing, and even where it might it’s effectively a declaration that profit is allowed on volume more than margins, so it’s pro-density. You can ruin that with zoning, of course. But
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by wwweston 3y ago
"Explicit vs Implicit" is more accurate and value neutral, and doesn't require anyone to load down the explicit side of the equation with generalized aspersions like "treating everything as a transaction." There are
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by wwweston 3y ago
If hostiles were conquerors, I’d think they’d send waves of robot-weapons, with extra time to make/improve successive waves. If they were annihilists, I’d think they’d send relativistic projectiles.
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by wwweston 3y ago
If you expect any outside civilizations might be hostile, wouldn't a slower frame of reference magnify the risk, both in terms of giving slower civ a disadvantage in adaptation/response times if any conflict did occur, and also in
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by wwweston 3y ago
> in fact computers don't work very well and users encounter errors on a regular basis. Using computers is a skill. It takes study. I think what's been lost -- or perhaps never been gained -- is an art of dual tiering error con
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by wwweston 3y ago
So. Much. This. I'm pretty sure A/B testing has become a cult whose rituals are often practiced in a way that leads people away from meaningful or productive outcomes. Is there anywhere else you've found where people are talk
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by wwweston 3y ago
This has at least two virtues that the Ravenchord appears not to have: 1) Mann actually built the piano! No mere rendering, this guy got his hands dirty, did trial and error and reverse engineering and built something real. 2) The project w
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by wwweston 3y ago
As far as I can tell he's not only pretty sure he'll be part of the class that holds power like this without accountability to any state, he consistently makes manipulative statements which function to move things in that directio
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by wwweston 3y ago
Is there really anything easier to do? If you're disabling the default event, you're doing it to provide some other functionality, which is necessarily going to involve writing a function to attach to a handler, and adding event.p
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by wwweston 3y ago
Or what the annihilist embodiment-of-evil antagonists in a Madeline l'Engle novel do. (See _A Wind in The Door_ or _A Swiftly Tilting Planet_)
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by wwweston 3y ago
> Arbitrary Internet data that is not copied It's all but certainly copied, and not just in the "held in memory" sense but actually stored along with the rest of the training collection. What may not happen is distribution

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