(Part 2) Top products from r/HelloInternet

There's a fascinating discussion of what happened to the record companies and artists during this period in Scott Timberg's book "Culture Crash."

It's true that the average consumer had no sympathy for the artists or the record companies, because they were perceived as inconceivably wealthy. The trouble is that most artists (musicians, or "content providers") were not on "Cribs." There used to be a vast middle class of moderately successful rockers, studio musicians, and an entire indie-label industry which never got rich but did manage to pay for a comfortable life by writing and playing music. They were responsible for the quality and diversity of popular music at the end of the 20th century. Napster ate everyone's lunch, indiscriminately. And then Apple stepped in, and then Google and Pandora and Spotify, and now nearly all the money that can still be made in music is either going to a tech company, or is being laid into the hands of the artists themselves on tour. And so they must tour forever lest the money dries up.

The record companies were a beheamouth by the mid-90s, it's true. But they also paid the artists to keep making music. Apple, Google, Spotify - they don't do that. They don't have to. The market has already demonstrated that the audience will never pay for music the way they did before, and the tech companies own the means of distribution, so everyone else is screwed. Including the artists.

Or, if you prefer, the "content providers."

YouTube is Google, now, obviously. But at least YouTube content providers have a direct relationship with YouTube. I think the question worth asking is - why does YouTube bother paying content providers at all? If we can answer that question, then maybe we'll know how YouTube can be incentivized to give a slit about freebooting and defend their content providers appropriately. Short of that, they have no motivation to do so - it will only cost them money to develop and implement the tools needed.

Here's a link to the book. If you're into sociology and/or enjoy being depressed about the future, I highly recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Crash-Killing-Creative-Class/dp/0300195885

> You're getting swindled buying gimmicky cartridges anyway. Double edge safety razor master race. You can buy 100 blades for under $10 and get a better shave.

This. I switched many years ago now and havent looked back.


Edit: links for noobs.

This one is surprisingly good
And these guys have lots of good stuff

"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" if you liked guns, germs and steel and superintelligence. Like GGS it too constructs a hypotesis and goes on and on to support it. Also as the title suggests it tries to answer the question "where did consciousness came from? and how did it get so complex?"

I really like Dawkins' comment about this book: "It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between ..."

Check out, "The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse" by Gregg Easterbrook

https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Paradox-Better-While-People/dp/0812973038

Lots of solid evidence that folks actually DID feel happier a generation or two ago, and yet just as much evidence that every measure of their material well being was better across the board.

Although I am extremely jealous of you and a little irritated that you would buy one without the ability to listen to it, I will stow away that irritation to help a fellow Tim. You can find some rather reliable, cheap turntables on Amazon. I personally had a Jensen All-In-One. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000UVKE2I/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_VR6CybX9H31J6) There's the link if you're interested. They are good for their price point. I had mine for about 4 or 5 months before I upgraded. Or... You could just sell the vinyl episode to me, and I'd take real good care of it. xD

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I think you would like Greg Egan's Permutation City

You might like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Monsters-John-Lee-Schneider/dp/1925840956

I am 90% sure it was this one.https://www.amazon.com/Sum-Tales-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/1491503629

On Amazon here.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556706227/

A Man on the Moon - Andrew Chalkin. - ISBN: 0-670-81446-6

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/014311235X

This is the end game here.


As far as I know, Chaikin is the only person to have written a book and interviewed all dozen people who landed on the moon and the eighteen who didn't.

I rate this Seven stars! (out of five)

Drip

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00005MF9C/ref=psdcmw_602608_t1_B00006IUVD



Provide your own hot water:

Press

https://www.amazon.com/Bodum-Brazil-French-Press-Coffee/dp/B00008WU9F/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=Bodum+1543-01US+Brazil+French+Press&qid=1572469254&sr=8-2

Pour Over

https://www.amazon.com/Melitta-Coffee-Single-Pour-Over-Brewer/dp/B0014CVEH6/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=single+cup+drip+coffee+maker&qid=1572468382&sr=8-1

Circle cutters exist, for future reference.

Harris Wittels, the inventor of the term, even wrote a book of humblebrags.

Buy it here!

You should see what Nokia has been up to

Nokia PureView 9

> You've been bamboozled.

You would think so, wouldn't you?