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by earbitscom 14y ago
Example: Chicken. Very succinct. If it's GMO: GMO-Chicken. Seems succinct as well. Non-GMO Chicken. Least succinct of the 3.
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by earbitscom 14y ago
It makes zero sense for companies to be required to list what is NOT in their food. Yeah, let's scrap listing ingredients and instead list everything that isn't in an item. ;)
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by earbitscom 14y ago
And since when have men ever invested money into finding ways to relieve animal suffering in our food raising processes? They can't even be bothered to use dirt cheap pain killers during some of the most horrendous practices.
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by earbitscom 14y ago
Christianity takes an opposing view to logic as well.
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by earbitscom 14y ago
Other animals bred to have fast-growing qualities typically suffer incredibly painful problems supporting their unnatural weight. When are people going to realize that: A) just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. B) anima
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by earbitscom 14y ago
I think you're overestimating how much the average person really pays to design. Having worked in online advertising for a long time, I have seen some seriously hideous sites convert far better than well manicured ones. For an example of
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by earbitscom 14y ago
Los Angeles is leading the charge on this. West Hollywood banned the sale of pets two years ago. Los Angeles city is doing so now. http://www.examiner.com/article/los-angeles-poised-to-ban-sa...
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Harnessing Music’s Technological Future(techcrunch.com)
6 points by earbitscom 14y ago|0 comments
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by earbitscom 14y ago
Also, the primary point seems to be that we need increased caloric intake to support the larger brain's greater function. While it may have required meat consumption at the dawn of our species, I think we can all agree that you don't need
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by earbitscom 14y ago
This would all but put a nail in the coffin of those who are "lagging" behind. The first question an investor will ask is whether you received the additional $70k. No investor wants to institutionalize that 30% of their companies will rec
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The Downfall Of Pandora, Consumer Choice And Emerging Music(hypebot.com)
3 points by earbitscom 14y ago|0 comments
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Earbits needs a Full Stack JS/Rails Dev - up to $140k + 2%
1 points by earbitscom 14y ago
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by earbitscom 14y ago
They tend to classify whole albums, which would be an average of 10 songs. So, 100,000 albums. Of that, there are going to be some artists with multiple albums. You can probably estimate about 70k-80k.
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by earbitscom 14y ago
Technically it's non-interactive streaming, hence no on demand play, restrictions on how many times an artist is played and the skipping restrictions.
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by earbitscom 14y ago
It's not. That's why Pandora is fighting for their life right now. They can't get big investors to keep backing them until they get the law changed. They're in very deep.
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by earbitscom 14y ago
The primary factors in this are how much they get played, whether they're on a label, and how many people are in their band. The performance royalty is based on number of streams, split 50% to the label, then 50% cut between all performers
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by earbitscom 14y ago
The number of artists in Pandora's catalog is very small relative to all other mainstream services (because of the cost burden of onboarding artists into the Music Genome Project, a manual process). So, put an unknown artist that sounds li
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by earbitscom 14y ago
That's because Pandora only has about a million songs in their catalog, where iTunes has like 30 million. All Pandora has to do, and you better believe they did in order to write an article like this, is classify an unknown artist that sou
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by earbitscom 14y ago
Actually, that's not very accurate. Those performance royalties are paid to SoundExchange, a non-profit assigned to distribute the royalties to the artists. The whole reason the labels hate Pandora is because it's the only massive service
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by earbitscom 14y ago
What you're failing to realize is that the per-stream fee that Pandora pays is exclusive to net broadcasters. Everyone else pays a percentage of revenue that is a manageable 7-8% for performance fees, and another 5.5% for publishing. Pand
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Hard-Learned Startup Lessons (blog.earbits.com)
11 points by earbitscom 14y ago|1 comments
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by earbitscom 14y ago
You make a great point, and yet, given Napster and now Airtime, do we really want this guy trying to put humans safely on Mars?
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by earbitscom 14y ago
Not only has there yet to be a feature on Airtime that is cool or unique, but there has yet to be mention of any future idea that sounds like it solves a problem. What problem is Airtime trying to solve? This guy needs PG office hours in
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by earbitscom 14y ago
I know the guy who picked the song. He was still securing it Friday and telling me he had to get it, that it was perfect. I agree. ;)
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MinoMonsters (YC W11) Hits 1.5M Players, Gets A Little More Funding(techcrunch.com)
50 points by earbitscom 14y ago|18 comments
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by earbitscom 14y ago
I've used Quora for all kinds of things outside of tech, including diving deep into shows like Breaking Bad to understand the symbolism and other aspects of it. I've used it to ask questions when I lived in a new area for a few months. It
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Build the Google Adwords of the Music Industry at Earbits (YC W11)
1 points by earbitscom 14y ago
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by earbitscom 14y ago
Google Ventures, in my experience, tells entrepreneurs that they have little to do with Google. They do not invest in things because they are synergistic with Google, and they may even invest in things that compete with Google. They mak
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by earbitscom 14y ago
This article is false. There are different rates for streams listened by paying customers and those listening for free. The massive majority of Spotify users are free, and those rates are significantly less. There are several articles ab
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by earbitscom 14y ago
This is not just startup culture, it's most professional gatherings in general. Go to a conference of any kind, other than one that's in some sort of health/fitness-related industry and you're bound to see the same thing. The primary reaso

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