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C90 cassettes are objectively terrible

> For example, Spotify says that its average payout for a stream to labels and publishers is between $0.006 and $0.0084 but Information Is Beautiful suggests that the average payment to an artist from the label portion of that is $0.001128 – this being what a signed artist receives after the label's share

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/03/how-much-...

This seems to clear it up

> We aggregate all of this revenue from these two streams, and distribute back 70% in royalties based on a pro rata share in accordance with the popularity of a piece of music. For example, if one of your songs has been streamed 1% of the total number of streams in a month, you will get 1% of the 70% of royalties we pay out to rights holders.

http://www.musicthinktank.com/mtt-open/how-does-spotify-pay-...

If the latter is true, let’s assume everyone pays $15 a month for Spotify and there’s 1 million subscribers each listening to 1000 songs a month

900k listen to Ed Sheeran exclusively 1000 times

100k listen 1 times to each of 100 indie bands.

Total revenue $15m Total royalties $10m

Ed Sheehan gets 900m listens

Each indie band gets 100k listens - total 10m listens

Ed Sheehan gets $9.9m Each indie band gets $1k

You’d think that the $15 the Indy subscriber would pay would go equally to the 100 bands - giving 15k per band, and 9.4m for Ed, but it apparently doesn’t work that way.

Those who binge listen are subsidised by those who listen rarely.

That’s my understanding anyway, but it seems to be based on a line from an “artist in residence”

We have an ever changing group of about 60 engineers who need the ability to do rooty style things on about 500 different machines (very few of which are the same, so things like ansible don't work too well). While only a handful actually do, the rest need to be able to, and they're trusted to make the call.

However we still want to know what's going on, and sudo fires back a message to syslog with who did it and what they did. Far more useful than "joebloggs went to root at 03:14 and logged out at 09:15"

Yup it's nearly 4 years old. Newest kit I have (along with my 2014 desktop, 2013 mac and 2010 thinkpad)

Sometimes individual consumers change things, most of the time it needs regulation to help them. The 'invisible hand' may well steer the ship, but it's an oiltanker, not a speedboat.

> Cellphones Are Throwaways

That's the point - they shouldn't be. The cost of a cellphone does not cover the cost to the planet of producing that cellphone.

Notepad was fixed years ago

Because they want you to use google as your portal to the internet.

I change my Firefox copies to have separate boxes, and no search from url bar. I don’t recall offhand as it’s muscle memory, and I’m on a phone, but I think it’s ctrl-k for location and ctrl-l for search.

> 3 - Why do I, as a UK resident, have to provide money so that someone in Vietnam can access our state news?

Up until a few years ago you didn't.

In the news + current affairs genre there was

1) UK output (Huw Edwards, News24, Panorama, etc) -- licence fee funded

2) World service (mainly radio, in a variety of languages) -- funded direct from the foreign office

3) World News TV (English language TV station) -- commercially funded

However the government of the time told the BBC they had to continue to fund World Service, but stopped the grant in aid. This meant that Doris in Dudley had to pay for Radio Hausa broadcasting from Abuja. Hausa is good for the UK (soft power), but it should be funded by the foreign office.

To add confusion, a couple of years ago the government then decided to invest £300m over 4 years to expand the world service reach - this money came from the foreign office.

Then there's more confusion. Many reporters for world service are expected to file into UK news too. If there's a news story in Vietnam that breaks, it will be nominally world service reporters who are on the scene reporting. Even if it's a planned event, like the Trump/Kim summit, local WS staff will be planning and often staffing that event, even if Huw Edwards is flown out to cover it, so there is still a tangential benefit

World News TV that you get in international hotels is a commercial arm, it's purpose is like CNN international.

World Service - mainly radio, but also TV, is to deliver a UK viewpoint to the world - traditionally "the colonies".

But don't worry, you'll still look.... absolutely fabulous

One has to assume Wood Norton was also a target

"shall not be violated"

How's that Militia going? Got any nuclear weapons?

If the 2nd ammendment didn't apply at "The Border" (aka the 100 mile wide 'constitution free zone'), then perhaps there wouldn't be such a zone

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/styles/scale_1200w/...

So much for the 4th amendment. It seems that most of america only cares about the second.

Ubiquity -- Uber works in London, but it also works in Manchester, and Cardiff, and New York, and Sydney

Addison Lee works in London.

Wheelchair users - black cabs (technically) take wheelchairs easilly.

Given that cabs typically have 1 passenger in, why should they be allowed in bus lanes?

So you would argue that bus lanes should be HOV lanes - if you have at least 3 people in your car you can use it (although if it's a taxi, minimum would be 4 people)

Which laws? Uber is perfectly legal in the UK, same as Addison Lee. Sure there's lots of complaints from the buggy whip manufacturers, but given their product is

1) Worse to use (standing in the rain with you arm out in the hopes someone will stop, let alone trying to get one on a side street)

2) Based around getting lost (taxi drivers are too arrogant to use technology so will drive into roadworks and traffic jams when modern cars use things like waze or whatever to avoid them)

3) More expensive

4) Less safe (who's driving? Who knows! Lets hope it's not John Worboys)

Web Browsers were paid for at one time, as were operating systems.

They are typically moving between 0 and 1 passenger around -- worse than cars.

I did once. Went less than two miles, and ended up £20 worse off. The other time I tried to use it I got yelled at for getting in it without telling him where I wanted to go.

I do use uber or other private hire in London on occasion - when shifting lots of stuff around, but Black Cabs?

Black Cabs, used by the rich to bypass the traffic. They should be banned from bus lanes at very least.

> It was commonly believed that the point of those charges (whether they were true or not) was to get Assange to Sweden, at which point Sweden could roll over, do the US's bidding and extradite him to the US.

Which was always ridiculous, as it was based on the idea that Sweden would be more willing to extradite than the UK, a ridiculous notion.

If your machine is pointing to doh on the Internet, how does a reverse lookup for an rfc1918 address work?

One issue with doh is that it’s inconsistent - some applications use one resolver, some use another. The network (via dhcp) can’t hint at which resolver to use.

Sure, as were things like CIX, and indeed compuserve in the early days

How do you do PTR records? (what hostname is 10.12.43.122) How do you do split DNS? (Inside my network I want it pointing to my internal server)

Now you could argue that the fault in both of those cases is IPv4 and the natting that comes with it.

In 1990 in the uk we paid

1) per minute charge on the phone (typically 1-10p)

2) per monthly charge to phone company for line rental

3) per monthly charge to isp for access

4) per minute charge to isp while we were dialed in

Your job is forcing you to do bad things for your health. Either say no, or leave. It’s not the airline’s fault.

I’m fine with economy in Europe, YMMV

But yes, it’s about how often you fly. Once or twice a year on a midhaul day flight like Uk to east coast or Mid East in a good economy plane (qatar a350 for example) is fine. flying 30 times a year then just say no. It’s not worth the damage to your health.