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by rantee 2y ago
Claims by an unidentified author(s) replying to comments with a 4-hour old HN account.. How did this make it to the front page other than the catchy name?
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by rantee 2y ago
Totally agree - I don't find "stunningly thin and light design" to be a selling point any more. I want to hold a durable device without feeling like it might break or slip out of my hands, without needing a chunky case.
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by rantee 3y ago
Yes, agree that like any other technology, the artists typically get the short end of the stick regardless of the delivery platform. Even for the megastars, more money is raked in from sources other than streaming. (With notable exceptions,
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by rantee 3y ago
Yes, the rates vary by platform. In the US, there's a combo of statutory (or CRB-approved) rates on the publisher side, and negotiations on the label side. On the publisher/songwriter side, streams are not "public performance
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by rantee 3y ago
And if publishers and/or labels were able to obtain better rates - via direct negotiations, the CRB, or otherwise - presumably some of those fractional cents per stream would trickle down to the artists and songwriters who are already
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by rantee 3y ago
Lost in all coverage of this battle of the middlemen is the effect on the artists actually making the product. How would lower prices make any difference in Spotify’s royalty rate bullying in a market saturated with alternatives that they a
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by rantee 3y ago
It’s beyond laughable that the company didn’t better address these concerns beyond performative press releases without the need for regulatory intervention before rolling out in any jurisdiction, let alone the EU. Whatever one’s opinion on
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by rantee 3y ago
Fueling clickbait conspiracy theories is one probable outcome that comes to mind. For example, even a winning candidate may claim that a "woke" employee sabotaged the site in an effort to subvert the will of the people to have fre
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by rantee 3y ago
Somebody page Kanye to say something stupid so we can flush SA out of the news cycle already. Elon's just not up to par these days.
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by rantee 3y ago
Xoogler here - Totally agree that the bulging middle management layers and lack of crisp CEO vision have dismantled the company's ability to weather the changes of "growing up". Had a few managers and multiple reorgs in my &l
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by rantee 3y ago
You can still grab bl.ing for the promo price of $3,899! (11/1/23 ~3pm ET GoDaddy quote)
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by rantee 3y ago
Great overview, thanks for sharing. Maybe this was unintentional, but I got a good laugh out of, "In 1952, the International Astronomical Union changed the definition of time"!
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Eshoo, Schakowsky, Wyden, Booker Introduce Bill to Ban Surveillance Advertising(eshoo.house.gov)
3 points by rantee 3y ago|2 comments
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by rantee 3y ago
Release the lobbyists! Hopefully this moves forward without getting too watered down. Its limited scope is more promising than recent attempts at more comprehensive data protection legislation.
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Nest Aware Price Hikes(9to5google.com)
4 points by rantee 3y ago|2 comments
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by rantee 3y ago
Announced in a Friday-before-holiday email. The dollar amount isn't likely to break the bank for many users, but as a percentage it's just taking advantage of a captive user base. Regardless of the functionality and (IMO) great en
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by rantee 3y ago
I've heard similar stories from others. My Nest doorbell has issues, too, unless someone is right on the porch. I'm ready to get cameras but waiting for the next Prime Day when I can probably pick up two Rings for the price of one
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by rantee 3y ago
Nice. Now do Xcode!
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by rantee 3y ago
Don't forget the real estate binge.. even as more and more people were WFH'ing.
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by rantee 4y ago
Me: "How about a printer where I can scan a QR code, like an IoT device, and it 'just works'"? Tech industry: "How about AR glasses?" While the complexity of translating screen -> paper across platforms, res
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by rantee 4y ago
While privacy policies are increasingly tailored to an app's actual data usage,* there are still FAR too many out there full of the same copypasta allowing a company to do whatever they want with your data. With that in mind, it's
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by rantee 4y ago
The bug tracker, deployment, and testing tools are very mature. It was the task tracking by spreadsheet on my teams that got to me, and lack of unified project management tooling across teams. This made tracking dependencies and planning mo
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by rantee 4y ago
Since employees, (many) customers, and investors aren't happy, seems like time for a change. It's the layers between the puppet and army that cause the most issues IMO, but vision starts at the top. And it isn't there these d
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by rantee 4y ago
Putting aside the product concerns, from my recent Xoogler perspective, they absolutely need a new CEO. Start with a chaotic management style that is constantly reorg'ing and forcing manager changes. I had three managers and four reorg
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by rantee 4y ago
"No safety or surprise, the end" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqPNlng6uI
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by rantee 4y ago
As someone with a liberal arts degree who also, charitably, is a pretty decent developer, this is spot on. (No disrespect to those educated in different contexts, or those who have difficulty for other neurodiverse, cultural or ESL, or othe
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by rantee 5y ago
(disclaimer: non-practicing lawyer here, not yours or theirs, off-the-cuff very hot take) What part of 'A consumer shall have the right to request...' in the CCPA isn't clear? Nothing about "A fake user may request...&qu
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by rantee 13y ago
Paywall politics aside however one feels about them, would be great if HN mods would just never put through a link to one... Waste of time for most of us.
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by rantee 13y ago
Like others predict, I think this will get booted because of lack of standing. Interesting that Greenspan makes the broad First Amendment argument about being able to represent his corporation as legal counsel based on political speech righ