cromon
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- May 11, 2016 (10y ago)
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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cromon; my proof: https://keybase.io/cromon/sigs/2x0teW2whSnCkAjbvX3L6QsURuZeUbtPQXk_P7Duhds ]
Verifying my Blockstack ID is secured with the address 1Kqnw28bNRjXz5LZEJk3w76jQdxzDp2bQR https://explorer.blockstack.org/address/1Kqnw28bNRjXz5LZEJk3w76jQdxzDp2bQR
Sadly they could have been a major player in the standardisation of metadata or at least even conformed to one of the current (imperfect) standards that exist. Their priorities lay elsewhere I guess.
Agreed, it's also not what an artist gets paid, it's extremely hard (read impossible) to get a direct relationship with Spotify. You require distribution.. that alone takes anything from a flat delivery fee per album…
< Spotify is not the same as Netflix etc, because Netflix etc is commissioning and promoting new work - something Spotify has no interest in. > Possibly not anymore since there was an investigation into what they did…
www.hcaptcha.com www.solvemedia.com A load of other anti-spam captchas not owned by Google...
I don't find it large compared to other uses of electricity that waste large amounts, or other forms of pollution that don't provide any use to the world. If you find it useless then sure vilify it, but not everyone…
World energy production: 168,519TWh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption Bitcoin mining energy consumption: 73.12TWh https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption Percentage: 0.0433897661% I…
No one ever mentions the insane amount of time it takes to sync their chain.. I'd say that is a big stopping point for a lot of people.. I've been trying for weeks to catch up. (Where other wallets sync in a reasonable…
Yea the first half of the book is a brief story of his life, that's a really interesting read for sure.
Read Phikal by Alexander Shulgin, plenty of interesting information in there.
London hasn't fallen in population since the 90s in fact it's been a steady rise since then(0). These are just the official stats, anecdotally there is noticeably a lot more people in London than when I was a teenager.…
Music publishing is bigger than ever, Kobalt just got $600m to spend on copyrights.
You can do it online.. no need to spend anything. Why not do that and stop the tree wasting yourself, as they aren't going to. You only need do it every 2 years or so.…
Considering how old gold is its distribution is pretty slim https://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/who-owns-worlds-gold/24... And it's far from immune to being manipulated. http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1489601367.php
A CD is limited to 22khz, whereas vinyl is analogue and doesn't have this limit, digital files obviously can go up to ~96khz due to the 192khz sample rate achievable by some sound cards.
This is something I have battled with for a long time, personally I master to make the music sound good, sometimes that is loud (new dance music) sometimes not so much (old African recordings remasters). Coupled with…