thericofactor

Kudos for mentioning Lost in Translation. One if my favorite movies. Whenever I try to explain to people what it's about, I get blank looks why that would be entertaining.

Partly closed source, Russian ownership.

Never mention the reason they were kicked out.

It's literally the first line of the article: cost up to $45 million, was short on attendees, long on political speeches.

If artists would actually get paid fairly by Spotify that would be a good model.

Until about 100 years ago music artists would get paid for playing live only. Then music reproduction became possible, and lo and behold, companies started making a profit off of popular musicians by reproducing their music and taking a share, just because they could afford the technology.

Then, reproduction came into the hands of regular people, and you could reproduce music at home, bypassing the companies that profit off of the musicians. So copyright laws were drafted to protect mostly the companies making a profit off of musicians.

Now we're going back to the situation of 100 years ago: musicians need to play live to get paid. But reproduction does still make them famous without them having to travel. So that's a plus.

And you can argue Spotify has to.pay for infrastructure and app development, but that technology is in the hands of individuals as well nowadays. So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much. Yet they become more expensive every year. And the only people getting richer are their shareholders.

I noticed that when I go from the first page to the next (on old.reddit.com), I see almost the exact same posts. So nowadays I'm done after one page. It's pretty convenient.

Nationalists. Just of another nation.

Trump needs a war to stay in power in a couple of years.

I think of skimpy underwear

Upvoted for bazaar. Even before git existed bzr and qbzr on windows were more user friendly than git with any gui is now.

It poses a fascinating question whether unbridled growth of the economy is valid to support unbridled growth of population. Not saying that people facing malaria shouldn't be helped, but if it depends on an ever growing economy we might have a problem.