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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Largely this is probably true. One large benefit for the consumer with streaming music over buying it is actually that it is cheaper. Significantly cheaper if you listen to a bunch of different things. So if everyone has moved to a method of listening to music that costs less then there has to be less money available to artists (all else being equal).

    Even if 100% of streaming services’ revenue went to artists it could still be less money.

    The problem isn’t Spotify itself, it’s the business model of streaming being way too cheap.








  • To everyone commenting that you have to convert to binary to represent numbers because computers can’t deal with decimal number representations, this isn’t true! Floating point arithmetic could totally have been implemented with decimal numbers instead of binary. Computers have no problem with decimal numbers - integers exist. Binary based floating point numbers are perhaps a bit simpler, but they’re not a necessity. It just happens to be that floating point standards use binary.