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Have they just made this number up or am I missing something? It appears nowhere in the quoted source https://insights.glassnode.com/the-week-onchain-week-19-2022...

They were incredibly disingenuous about the Elon Musk thing.

He said he'd sell $6bn of Tesla stock and donate it if they could provide an open source plan to completely solve world hunger.

They said they'd written a private plan to reduce world hunger then criticised him for not making the donation.

Whatever you think of Elon, I don't think he acted in bad faith here.

Footnote 3 should be a big disclaiming banner above the article

As amazing as Mux is (seriously, I absolutely love Mux) it's not very accessible to the average content creator because it's API-only.

What about just "service" or "web service"?

The formation of the statement is the problem. Try:

> everything can be viewed through the lens of politics

You wouldn't say "everything is geographical" because that would be absurd (just as absurd as "everything is political") but you could view most topics through the lens of geography if that was the hammer turning all your concerns into nails.

Google being Google: Decides it has the requisite resources to get into an arms race with both adblockers and the open source community.

Interestingly, this belief is never shared by people from Europe who've actually experienced communism.

The issue in many cases is _corruption_ which will exist whatever you do (there's always a snake in the garden) so the trick is to implement the right legislation to control it and ensure freedom...

...which admittedly is easier said than done!

And if you're into crypto, the last thing you want in the morning is an anxiety-inducing reminder of short-term volatility.

Unless you know the market better than everyone else, having more capital can just as easily be a way to lose faster.

Most of the smart money is in hedge funds anyway.

You're absolutely right that it's unethical but whether it's sustainable is yet to be seen. So far the evidence suggests that it is.

Completely agree, but they're playing a game with artists which is something like "How little can we pay them and still have enough material for the average consumer to pay $10-15/mo to believe they have all the music in the world?" and they're not going to start paying artists more of their own volition.

So what action does that leave?

> I love that people are looking for alternatives to Spotify and I don’t know how to explain to them that it has never been ethical or sustainable to expect to have unfettered access to the entire history of recorded music for $10/month.

— Ross Grady, missing the point.

This has nothing to do with Spotify and everything to do with the market for streaming services.

It takes an unbelievable amount of money to operate a service like Spotify and consumers have not yet demonstrating a willingness to pay more than $10-15/mo for pretty much any mainstream digital subscription.

That leaves a very small amount for artists. Which is wrong. But what are you going to do?

Either customers pay more, which they won't.

Or artists leave Spotify for platforms that pay them more in hope the increased cut compensates for significantly lower volume, which is unlikely.

Or someone finds a way to run a global streaming service at such a reduced cost that some savings can be passed onto the artists, which would've happened already if possible.

Note this will download the video and ffmpeg the audio out of it, so you're no longer saving bandwidth.

One would hope that compression would make the difference negligible.

The one thing that keeps me locked into a pretty interface is remembering:

1. What has and has not been watched 2. How far through a film/episode has been watched 3. One click to start watching the film/series from where I left off

If the VLC app can do that then I'm sold.

It's not a matter of one being objectively better than the other but which suits your needs.

The basic distinction, from a purely SEO perspective, is that blog.domain.com will be treated as its own entity whereas domain.com/blog will be treated as part of the main domain.com entity.

The question you have to ask yourself is whether you want to bolster the "value" of your main domain or if you want your blog to be an asset in its own right.

There is no right or wrong answer — there is simply what's best for your situation.