caractacus

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by caractacus 7mo ago
I still do not understand why anyone still believes anything Altman says about any matter, particularly commercial matters. if he told me he'd had eggs for breakfast, I'd be suspicious.
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by caractacus 3y ago
602m monthly active users as of Q4 2023. That's in their investor deck and similar figures in their SEC reports. Around 250m premium subscribers, the rest on the free tier, accessing Spotify at least once per month. https://
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by caractacus 3y ago
How on EARTH you go from 'sardonic comment about a pointless movie review site' to "gosh, you really should try and make a difference to something in your life!" is as patronising a take as I'll ever hear. also this
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by caractacus 3y ago
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by caractacus 3y ago
Sorry to piggyback on this. I applied for a Director role at DDG about a month ago. Had the autoreply which said DDG would follow up whether it was a yes, let's talk! or a nope, sorry. But nothing at all which was a bit disappointing.
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by caractacus 3y ago
The IA are trying to drum up support by stating that the publishers want to destroy libraries, which obviously makes them sound really awful. But publishers just want the IA to stop offering their copyrighted works for free to anyone at all
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by caractacus 3y ago
They don't want to 'squash lending'. They are delighted with public libraries who license books and lend out a discrete number of copies at any one time for a limited period of time. They don't like the Internet Archive
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by caractacus 4y ago
I tried "well-written fiction" and got back four non-fiction books about writing. "intelligent fiction" - four non-fiction books. "fiction by women" - two memoirs, two non-fiction.... So then I just tried &quot
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by caractacus 4y ago
Gosh you make it sound like a schoolyard flirtation. "Stole a kiss". She was trapped in his car and he grabbed her by the throat. He grabbed another woman by the throat and didn't let go. He raped a woman. There is a pattern
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by caractacus 4y ago
The map misses a road which heads out from Cambridge to Colchester that shouldn't be difficult to spot given that it's called the 'Roman Road'. Even the Romans should be able to spot that. https://frrfd.org.uk
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by caractacus 4y ago
Well the demo leaves a bit to be desired... https://imgur.com/a/dF0ehaN
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by caractacus 5y ago
"One thing that will definitely help is to have a good product" o rly?
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by caractacus 5y ago
It's not copyright law, it's the agreements that YT has with copyright owners. No one is going to license their content to YT if the site allows anyone to download whatever is there.
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by caractacus 5y ago
No chance. YT has 2bn+ unique logins a month. China only has 800m internet users max. Further the video streaming landscape in China is much more fragmented than outside the country where YT is dominant.
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by caractacus 5y ago
A long-term trend of less sex and more porno? Could you show some stats on this? I only question that line because I can't even deal with the rest of your post.
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by caractacus 5y ago
"Millions of kids think they can do the same thing and drop out of school." They do? Is this what you think is happening to millions of kids?
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by caractacus 5y ago
So you work (at least) double hours, a bunch of employees quit, "extreme stress", everyone "giving 110%", and you get nothing but a dinner out of it and the salary you'd have got if you'd worked a normal role.
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by caractacus 6y ago
Yeah, those damn authors don't deserve any money for their hard work writing. Let's make piracy easier and pretend we're doing nothing different to a lending library!
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by caractacus 6y ago
Data taken straight from similarweb so accuracy highly dependent on country of source, ad-block usage amongst visitors, etc etc. The ranking is probably vaguely correct but those detailed figures of time on site, facebook spend, revenue, et
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by caractacus 6y ago
I think it depends on the show in anime. SPOILERS FOLLOW. Erased is not a parallel world, but someone trying to change their past. Madoka finds Homura repeatedly doing whatever is possible to save Madoka. Steins:Gate is timelines and parall
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by caractacus 6y ago
> Those are some of the most expensive headphones I've ever seen You should hang around head-fi sometime if you think these are expensive...
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by caractacus 7y ago
Er.... no. That's not what was passed by the EU. The Copyright Directive is targeted at large "online content-sharing services" - in effect, services like YouTube, not messaging apps - and says that they are liable for what t
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by caractacus 8y ago
> there is nothing (except the "admission cost") that I can see will prevent a distributor such as Spotify to become a label. 1. The record companies won't be happy with Spotify encroaching on their turf and will take thei
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by caractacus 8y ago
> There are three major music publishers (UMG, Sony, Warner). As long as you have contracts with them, you'll have nearly everything. If (i) you have mainstream taste and (ii) you're not in a market with a substantial domestic
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by caractacus 8y ago
It's a beautiful story where one asshole meets another.
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by caractacus 8y ago
The data is hugely skewed because they're only looking at the top 200 each day. There are 50m tracks on streaming services and the popularity of the long tail is growing. The 500 most streamed tracks in the US received just 10.7% of to
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by caractacus 8y ago
What was the video?
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by caractacus 9y ago
YouTube don't need a license because they say they are covered by safe harbors / DMCA, so the record companies have negotiated separate agreements with YouTube. The fact that safe harbors were designed for passive intermediaries l
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by caractacus 9y ago
> because that is what this insane "market" puts value on. Because that is where he decided to work. I imagine he could find a role elsewhere focused on the areas you mentioned if he wished with those qualifications. I don&#x27
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by caractacus 9y ago
I am not laughing at you. I can't see how what some women experience at the point of orgasm has anything at all to do with what happens during a sexual assault or our social expectations of behaviour. > I strongly suspect this ele

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