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Comment Re:I don't currently use Rust (Score 0) 161

"Insightful" because this place is full of old people who really overestimate their abilities to know what is good.

The world is moving on, buddy. C is "fine" in so far as how amazing you are at writing code that doesn't have memory access issues. I'm not shitting on C. But Rust isn't crap - it's really very good and there's a reason why the active generation of big stakeholders (Linux kernel devs, MS, and way way beyond) are chuffed about the value it brings.

Comment Re:Everyone's gunna poop on this (Score 1) 68

Ah, that's an interesting detail (one I agree with) - thank you for pointing that out.

If you need to force people to promote / accept your culture, you should be asking why people prefer other cultures and address those issues instead.

Need is too strong a word. Want is the word. And mostly its there to force content publishers to protect a culture - given the balance of size of American popular culture, American content providers, etc .. I think it's naive to think it comes down to "a free market would accurately represent the desires of a specific domestic market in which it operates"

Media/culture is not some giant buffet where people walk in and just take (and pay for) the plate they want.

Comment Re:should have been dead ten years ago. (Score 5, Insightful) 197

What is the saying- man with no health problems, short life. man with health problem, long life?

Most healthy-ish people aren't aware of the damage they do to their bodies until it is too late, whereas people with chronic conditions are more mindful of their health.

Especially for some careers, they aren't designed with health in mind and falls into to the same personal blame for any shortcomings instead of the system that lead them there.

Comment Re:most dedicated fans? (Score 1) 41

Obviously they mean the fans "listening to the artist the most on Spotify" because that's obviously the behaviour they're incentivizing with this program.

Although this just feels like it's creating up an incentive for scalpers to setup bots to listen to Spotify. If the scalper-bots are plausible deniably "legitimate traffic" in terms of being to charge those impressions back to advertisers, Spotify can probably live with that.

I don't think anybody reading that release would think, "Oh, Spotify and LiveNation are acting so selflessly in the interests of fans and artists" but in what other language can you expect them to couch it in? It's marketing.

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