My first bike! It was an absolute cop magnet because it always sounded like you were speeding.

> many people believe their streaming use will only pay artists who they listen to, not realizing the streaming service actually pays artists based upon overall listener numbers

Those are the same thing

They're similar, but subtly different.

Say Bob pays a $5 subscription and listens exclusively to artist Foo, 100 song plays. Alice pays a $5 subscription and listens exclusively to artist Baz, but plays their songs a whopping 300 times.

If it was paid out per user, Foo and Baz would both get $5. But paying out based on overall listener numbers, Foo would get $2.50 and Baz would get $7.50.

Essentially, it's a zero sum game, and one artist getting a play takes away revenue from every other artist. Even if you exclusively listen to your favorite artists, the vast majority of your subscription money is going towards the top artists.

This is why Spotify is always pushing their own playlists, smart shuffle, and encouraging background listening with ambient / sleep playlists and such; the more they can shift listeners toward music they've produced themselves or have special license agreements with, the less they have to pay out to typical (i.e. smaller) artists using their platform.

No they aren't.

I pay $5 and listen exclusively to artist A.

10 other people pay their $5 but listen exclusively to artist B.

I would expect the artist cut of artist A to be the $5 (or their cut after Spotify), aka the artist I listen to.

However the 10 other platform users have more free time so each listen to twice as much music by artist B. So my 1 hour is dwarfed by their 20 hours, and my artist would only get $2.60 (or their cut after Spotify). Overall listener plays.

Leaded is slowly going away, but regulation means these changes take many, many years and dollars to implement and test.

It will be similar (worse?) implementing a new type of fuel for commercial jets, especially when it comes to wide adoption across a majority of countries around the world. Basically you need something which is as least as reliable, clean (I.e., won’t clog/solidify), non corrosive, etc. and remain that way after being mixed with standard jet fuel.

I too want to see alternatives but expect to see more failures than success at this stage.

I hope after this case that it becomes common sense to not destroy evidence after it’s been asked for.

Because it’s something else that’s non-standard between providers.

Yes but why not just always use 24h time (or 12h if that’s what you like).

It’s a little strange that a dedicated button would be needed to switch between them, especially when the math to convert between them is so simple.

Exactly, my kids knew how to convert between the formats at a fairly young age.

I bought a relatively inexpensive induction range from LG specifically because it has knobs - a lot of the more expensive ones from other brands were capacitive touch.

Maintenance-induced failures are what it’s called with small aircraft.

You’ll do something to prevent a failure (like, replace an old but functional alternator) but cause an oil leak or engine vibrations because you had to remove the propeller to complete the job.

Sounds like they’re using a treadmill, and yes this is about the most boring way possible to exercise

The risk is that beyond hobbyists technology will stagnate. It’s already much more productive using one or two frameworks over the rest of what’s available, and without training data it won’t be able to advance beyond those current popular frameworks.