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> I'm not going to risk $1.50 to an unknown website.

$1.50 isn't much of a risk you know, even if you don't know the website. You'd probably even get the song!

Also, if a song is on Audio CD, it's probably on iTunes too.

> in the current atmosphere, $1.50 seems like it's too much

This makes no sense. If you're a true music lover, a great song will give you countless hours of enjoyment and appreciation. Do you seriously think $1.50 is too much for that?

Compare to paying $10 for a movie ticket. You get 2 hours of entertainment, the movie might suck, and you don't get much from watching it again. That's massively worse value than $1.50 for a great song you can listen to over and over again.

I would gladly pay $1000 for Prince's Purple Rain, if there was no other way to get it.
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There have to be business models that allow the creativity of sites like XKCD, Reddit, SoundCloud, and Tumblr, to flourish. "

There, in the last sentence is the relevant insight. But, sadly, here the post stops.

I must admit, for me the most relevant information was google using the computers mike through chrome. I am shocked how far companies can go and do go. I think this finally ends the discussion about google being evil or not.
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> I think you need to specify your historical period and geographical region before you can claim that a great number of people had access to productive land and economic independence before industrial revolution.

Pre industrial revolution: Anywhere. You had large agricultural community (i.e farmers) typically in a Surfdom kind of relationship. So yes, they had to either pay some form of tax, or tend to land of others. But they also had land of their own, of which the could depend and survive on. "Unemployment" wasn't a thing. You also had open access to resources (hence they oil and gold rushes). These have all since been privatised.

> Who is "we" and what are the means of production that have been robbed from this person

"We" is the capitalists. Means of production is property, natural resources, etc.

> It would be very cathartic if one could just blame all the rockefellers for the economic inequality in this world but the world is not that simple.

It actually is that simple. But that's just identifying the problem. The solution to how we unwind multi-generational theft is an outright impossible one. The capitalists of today, think they rightfully own their capital, as it wasn't them personally who stole it.

> I think you are being silly.

Ad-hominem, but you are entitled to that way of thinking. It is difficult when people challenge our core beliefs, I can understand the position.

> Nowadays to give people a little more independence in developed economies would only require a sustainable model of basic income which is more of a political hassle rather than anything since most developed countries already have extensive systems of income transfer.

Would "only require", and given it's such an obvious thing to adopt, why hasn't it been? I would argue: "Because capitalists don't want it, and they are the ones in control". There are extensive systems of income transfer from the middle class. But Warren Buffet made it clear that Capitalists are largely unaffected by such measures (this is true the world over, not just the US).
There exists a vast array of academic literature, philosophic theory, and rampant opinion on the role of role models; structural delegitimization of the experience of those economically, socially, or politically disadvantaged; and the diverse ways in which humans learn from experience. Searching for and availing yourself of those resources would probably be the most advantageous way to address any substantial curiosity you might possess on the topic.

Then again, it stands to be somewhat more work than what can be proffered with the caveat "I have no data to support my presumptions".
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Wow, interesting. That 5 minute performance from Baldwin is the highlight of the movie though. It's great.
> This hasn't changed

Serious Eats has at least given conflicting advice on the topic less than a year after that article was published:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/03/cooking-with-olive-oil-fa...

Which I think perfectly illustrates the problem.
It was via credit card, but it was a smaller site I'd never heard of (I'm into music but not enough to know this place..maybe they're legit and I just didn't spend enough time doing research) and I was weighing the responsibility of thanking the artist the cost of buying a single track on a fairly "random" site and watching my credit card like a hawk for a month. It wasn't worth it to me in the end, ultimately. Typing this out, it seems a bit harsh, but I think a lot of consumers go through this same mental process. When I wrote an ebook, I put it both on Amazon and through a Shopify-type store where people could buy the DRM-free version. 99% of those people chose Amazon, and with good reason.
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There is little question that carbon-based flight power is here to stay for quite some time, but that isn't really the point - which is that electric flight is nevertheless a growth industry, and there are some markets where electric flight can make a lot of sense. If all you need to do is go up and fly for 2 hours or so, then an electric plane is a viable contender for the investment - maybe we're not at the tipping point, but we are approaching it, technologically at least, a few knots at a time.

It is a worthwhile goal, though. If we can somehow harness the suns' energy to get us around the world instead of using the world itself (and thus screwing it up), then we move closer to the cusp of a more viable long-term civilization. At the moment, every cheap flight to somewhere on a jet plane costs the Earth a great deal of survival potential...
Users.

Users always talk that they would love to pay. The problem is, they never do. They blog and write on forums about what they would like to see, but the things they write are always very, very different from what they actually do, according to the data.

You remember how in this whole Reddit debacle Pao said that "most of users don't really care about this scandal" and got downvoted to hell? It could very well be true, but users who were constantly around subreddits that were involved in the drama couldn't believe it. They are sure that evil corporate suits are out of touch with reality because they "don't even use their own service" and consume the information in form of PowerPoint presentations. But those suits are very well in touch with reality — it is a couple of SQL queries away from them, actually. (And I see that "managers" are getting more and more literate in terms of analytics, by the way — SQL and R aren't really that hard, and often you have much more user-friendly analytic services at your hands).

I'm not saying that big websites don't do bullshit. Of course they do. But when they do something that users actually don't like, users punish them in the most harsh way possible: with their wallets. Don't you remember how internet used to be? The hundreds of popups, for example — turns out, users didn't like it enough to install Firefox, so these guys went out of business. I could recall more examples like this, but this comment is already too wordy; you get the picture.

If you want to stop Buzzfeed, don't click clickbait and shame (in a constructive way — without calling them idiots, but making them feel a little bit low-brow, basic manipulation isn't that hard) your facebook friends for reposting such bullshit. And if you won't succeed, you'll just have to face the reality of being one in several billions.
> "Who is doing this to my internet?"

We all are. It costs money to create, host, and distribute content. We've demonstrated our unwillingness to pay a proper amount for it. (For example: "I would gladly buy it on MP3 for 99 cents... $1.50 is a lot to pay for a song...") And so companies that do this stuff have to get creative about making money. And advertising does the job.

The solution is to pay much more money for the content that you now get for free.
to be honest, who gives a shit if you can't listen to "mixes" on Soundcloud (for free, without ads...) any more

just find some real music and buy it
Point 2 was only true before 1993. After that, everybody could get on usenet. And did. The eternal september drove the quality down quite a bit.
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fun fact about rapeseed oil, the process of refining it actually turns it rancid so it must be deodorized and bleached before sale.
Everyone's been warning against widespread surveillance. The entire antiwar movement opposes drones. Where have you been?
A public IP is also leaked when you use a proxy. At least in Chrome, in practice. I don't know if this can be avoided in principle.
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Oddly enough thats exactly how our 'democracy' works... what would it be without political donations?

Back to the point though, if you want to make something free forever, buy it outright one time and its yours for the keeping... Subscription services like buying a car then going to TitleMax and giving them the title, wait for them to take your car away when you can't pay.
I think the revolution that will allow unfettered exchange of ideas will be peer-to-peer microtransactions. Maybe some combination of bitcoin + tor + some yet to be created tech.

All of the corporate sites are going to devolve into corporate friendly zones soon enough.
Refined and extra-light grades of olive oil have a higher smoke point than canola (rapeseed) oil, actually. I had been using corn oil for its higher smoke point, in comparison to canola, but have now switched to refined and extra-light olive. Works better for me than canola, as I sometimes fry at above 400F (canola's smoke point).
The F stands for Fast, and I don't even see any proof for their claim to fastness in the C version.
Yeah, I was thinking, wouldn't this be really easy to bot?
Yes, the internal IP is leaked. But, also the IP assigned to you by your ISP is leaked (just tested with http://net.ipcalf.com/ & a vpn).

Though, I did test this on a college campus, so the network might just be leaking my internal ip, which ends up being my external ip also because of how they have the network setup. Which in hindsight is actually even scarier.
I agree with what's been said here about payment. It is hypocritical that the author want's ad free music, but won't pay a buck and a half for a track. That said, the ad supported web still has problems, and I don't see anyone trying to solve it. Subscriptions are great, but how do we get people like the author of this post to buy into them? What's a fair way to charge subscriptions? How do you balance getting paid with keeping your content searchable? We shouldn't stop looking for new business models.
>this time really is different in the sense that the damage will be largely contained

I think you are seriously underestimating the financial consequences of billions of dollars in capital vaporizing or otherwise being sucked out of the financial system.

The 2007 financial crash wasn't largely contained amongst the buyers and holders of mortgages in Florida, Las Vegas etc; it was felt clear across the globe.

I don't imagine any "correction" will be on that scale, but I also wouldn't describe it as self-contained.
Yes I agree, but what I meant this is a concept which is not exposed to the general public (for most people) in some countries. Your card can also be a one-to-one medium to your account and the credit part is handled by contract if you ask it (or in large shops if you ask it), which means the card is a mix of both.
I had this sort of idea years ago for a Captcha method, and someone had mentioned this exact scenario.
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Harold McGee wrote about this subject from a flavor perspective in 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/dining/17curious.html?_r=0

His conclusion was that most oils taste the same after you heat them to frying temperatures.
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>> It is a technical requirement, because the protocol attempts to connect over the local network if both peers are under the same NAT. The local IP is shared so that the peers can attempt to make a local connection.

That's an optimization, not a requirement.
The article shows that the Fermi paradox is even more mysterious than some thought, because we will probably not be the civilization in this universe or galaxy that is 'in front' as we are not early but average.

However, something always bothers me about the Fermi paradox. I've never seen the most obvious resolution mentioned (at least to me). I think that we are just not (yet) able to detect any civilization given the maximum technological state a civilization may reach. Many people assume that because technological progress has been exponential last century for humans, that this can be projected indefinitely into the future. Similarly like some thought about indefinite economic growth. But this is nonsense, it is much more likely we will plateau at some point. The Seti-project listens for radio signals with star strength, assuming that a proper developing civilization is able to manipulate stars as radio beacons. I find this highly unlikely that any civilization will ever reach such technology or that it is even physically possible. I think it isn't.

The only thing one can say is that apparently in this galaxy, no civilization seems far enough 'progressed' yet to have colonized the entire galaxy, as I also think that crossing galaxy boundary will be a no go for any civilization. But will humans ever undertake such a quest? It will mean building generational ships, enough DNA diversity to make a new civilization feasible (minimum 5000 people?), finding a good habitable planet from here or be doomed as traveling will take thousands of years and will be tremendously costly in terms of effort, energy, materials and personal costs. How likely is that we will ever do that for every planet in the galaxy? Technology to turn one selves inward (e.g. VR) seems a much more likely turning point at which outward exploration might not seem that interesting anymore.
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I think more popular songs are going for $1.29.
Surely the landing gear, wing spar attachments, and brakes all have to be able to cope with an unexpected turnback and landing with most of the original weight? (not to mention heavy landings in adverse weather conditions)
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I'd suspect that the author had to compromise on the title, I'm not even sure they have any ability to influence the title.
Yeah, but in this case there's no extra packaging to pay for. ;)
I get what you're saying but that doesn't answer why a hybrid model isn't more common than it is.

Show me ads to monetize my free consumption of your service, but if I'm willing to pay (as many definitely are), allow me to subscribe to disable the ads. Why isn't this model more common? Is it because advertisers tend not to want to advertise on a platform where people can opt out of their ads?
no, but I have windows with curtains on the inside. Not the outside.

The distinction is both important, and blatantly obvious. Privacy control must remain with the one whose privacy is at stake.
Some of these are so hard to read that I feel like this is better served as a puzzle rather than a CAPTCHA service. Having said that, I do think if you were to take one of these band logos and put one next to a picture of a cat and ask "WHICH ONE IS MORE METAL???", then you'd be on to something. ;)
For me the Chrome tabs merged with the app is one of the most confusing UI choices I have ever witnessed. Glad to hear that it can be switched off though.
maybe life is common enough, but doesn't typically overlap in time. Maybe life on mars or venus died out a billion years ago.

We'll have a better picture when we study our solar system in more detail. Maybe 100 years? I agree that speculation this early in the game isn't enough to get excited over.
I worked for a company that made CDs for independent artists, and started selling Vinyl (didn't manufacture those in house, though). Vinyl is expensive to make, and heavy and expensive to ship. So I'd guess the vast majority of that cost would be eaten up in raw manufacturing and shipping costs, without even talking about middleman costs. And if I recall, our margin was pretty small.
Annoyed at "Big Corporate" taking over the internet, not willing to buy from small independent label/store.

The lack of self awareness is outstanding. And astounding.
what are your thought on building a business model around that trend ?
My guess is deep frying with extra virgin. The smoke point is too low to effectively deep fry anything with extra virgin olive oil. There are other variants, however, that have a much higher smoke point with which you can deep fry.
Which covered a large manufacturing and distribution cost that digital media does not incur.
Would love to know if there are any coffee shops like that in Toronto?
I think part of the problem is that services now start without a way to monetize themselves immediately - they rely on external money reserves to support growth. People get used to getting quality content for free. At some point said services finally need to make money, at which point they fuck up (from the user's point of view) their product, and so the users move to another party who has fresh investor money reserves.
My take is that this is a reaction to companies staying private longer, and its not very surprising that GS is taking the lead in wall street as they are usually on the ball.

Having said that, all they are doing is providing the same Investment banking services to companies that they always have, just now, they are offering it to private companies.

Think of it as a cover your ass approach, if companies decide not to go public, GS still gets a piece of the action, and if they do go public then its an easy pick for GS to lead their public IPO's as both sides already know each other.

They are also trying to lead the charge in allowing people to invest in private companies through investment vehicles that look similar to funds( ie pooled capital that they raise and invest for share holders).

With companies staying private for so long some people, and I'm starting to become one, now think that the day of the publicly traded growth company are coming to an end and that companies will go public once they have matured into value stocks.

This is evidenced by the markets are loosing patience with companies like Groupon, Zinga, Yelp and my personal whipping boy Twitter. Come on twitter, get your act together, you wont' be around much longer if you continue on like this.
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Untreated lard and hydrogenated lard are basically two different fats (I mean technically the difference is fairly small but it's as different as any two vegetable oils)
It's a little difficult to say exactly where housing prices would be without government incentivized 30 year mortgages.

(there are several incentives, tax deductions, cheap loan insurance, etc)

In a decent housing market, one of the things people consider when choosing a house/making an offer is how large of a payment they can make each month. Feed that payment into a 15 year loan on 60% of the purchase and you end up with a much different level of buying power than if you feed that payment into a 30 year loan on 95% of the purchase (and thus one way of thinking says that you can expect higher prices in general when 30 year loans on most of the principle are easy to get).
Now all we need is something to take advantage of all these annoying to configure/setup tools and have something people can easily start with.

I know that ide-backend is attempting to provide something convenient for such tooling, but I'm not sure what the overlap with tools like codex, hasktags, and others used in this video are.
So only willing to shop with the self same large monoliths you claim are destroying the internet.
I suppose it could be done that way. But that seems like a lot of extra work, and you also lose the compilers help. Also, in my experience changes like this actually do involve lots of subtly broken code - think about it, anyone using fold on a network error is making a mistake (retrying the use of a closed connection).

If you fix the behavior everyplace the compiler complains, you are guaranteed to resolve most issues (ignoring overloaded methods, e.g. getOrElse). If you use a toOption method on the union type to make a tiny atomic change, the compiler will no longer complain in all the places that mistakes are being made.

I suppose an intermediate way might be to rename f to f_DEPRECATED, replace everywhere, and build the new method returning the right type. But in my experience its better just to bite the bullet and change everything.
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most rental agents are paid by the tenant? i've hunted for and lived in many apartments, in both US and Canada, not once have I been the one who made any direct payments to the real estate agent for such services rendered. it's almost always the landlord who pays.
Pledges are fine, but they do not really address the problem of global warming. Congress seems to be totally unable to act rationally. The Administration seems more interested in compromise solutions that kick the can down the road than taking aggressive action.

To see how bad things are likely to become, read Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climage modeling, and modern observations that 2 degree C global warming is highly dangerous (http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/.../acpd-15-...).
> How do they make a living if they aren't working at all?

I'm one of those women who left the field after a 10 year career, and then returned several years late. The answer is, our quality of life drops. We end up in alternate careers that usually don't pay as well as tech, but come without the headaches. I worked as a private chef after I left tech. Some of the women I know have become academics in other fields, some pursue completely different careers in non-technical fields, some drop out completely to embrace a SAHM role or some other traditional gender role.

I'm not going to argue about whether this study is right or that one is wrong; but I can tell you from my own anecdotal experience that every year I see less and less women my age in tech. I rejoined IT after that hiatus and there's not a single woman I work with who has the kind of technical expertise I do. The women who have that expertise have all left for greener pastures; for most of them, tech is an uphill battle against ignorance and bias that just gets to be too stressful to deal with.