I saw an artist say recently on insta reels that if their fanbase switched to Apple Music it would go from beer money to more than their day job. And apparently even more from Tidal. They acknowledged that spotify is the elephant in the room with 80% of their audience on it.
Apple and Spotify both pay 70% but the devil is in the details. Apparently Spotify gives out 70% of its revenues based on what percentage of streams the artist has that month. What that means is that regardless of what you listen to, a percentage of what you pay will go to the heavy hitters like Taylor Swift. There's an excellent chance that the obscure artist you listen to doesn't get much of anything.
If Apple actually pays rights holders based on what you actually play that would be a huge difference.
Both Apple Music and Tidal (and Google Music, Amazon) can afford to lose money as long as leadership want the service to stay online.
I don't think it's sustainable for musicians to rely on cross financing via other services or VC money.
Further consolidation under under big tech conpanies would be a negative IMO
Most probably because a large amount of their fan base uses free accounts. So of course it would make them more money if they switched to Apple Music, because they’d start paying.
Keep in mind that POTS is specifically heart rate and not blood pressure. Blood pressure drop is orthostatic hypotension. They can both exists or one or the other, but are not the same thing and POTS is a specific term not an umbrella one.
Fair enough! My original comment was more brief than precise...
If it helps the original commenter, and anyone else reading who's suffering from similar issues:
The umbrella term for syncope and fatigue when sitting up or standing is orthostatic intolerance (OI), and it's commonly seen in Long Covid and other post-viral illnesses. Both POTS and orthostatic hypotension can cause OI.
To the original commenter, there's a good chance you've already been tested for irregularities on a CBC and CMP, but a thorough doctor would generally also order tests for your thyroid, testosterone, iron, B12, and Vitamin D levels. You should probably also get screened for diabetes, autoimmune, and adrenal issues. These labs could help identify simpler, treatable causes of your OI and other issues.
But if all that is normal, testing for orthostatic issues like POTS and orthostatic hypotension would be extremely warranted for you as well. And it really can be as simple as an at-home test! A lot of doctors will only diagnose POTS or orthostatic hypotension with an official tilt-table test, but with the rise of Long Covid many specialists are willing to diagnose and treat patients based on simpler and cheaper at-home testing. And the initial treatments are often as simple as drinking additional fluids and electrolytes and wearing compression garments.
It took me several debilitating years and at least a dozen doctors to get diagnosed with POTS and orthostatic hypotension, and if any of them had suggested I buy a BP cuff and spend 30 minutes doing a lean test it would have saved me an awful lot of trouble...
Try subsai on github. I recently used it to bulk subscribe and subtitle many hours of video of an accented speaker talking in a speciality domain with the appropriate jargon and i would say using the openai api model for whisper it was about 95-97% accurate. Super impressive.
The web interface has an 'update all' button thats just as convenient. I find if theres ones i want to not update i just temp break their yaml file with an unexpected keyword and it fails to compile and then update.
Your wish showing up in the face of a submission just 14 days ago and then another 29 days ago must be indicative of why there are so many dupes all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kroki.io
As a person with EDS, i would counter that it is way more common than realised. As its a systemic genetic driven inability to produce collagen correctly, the only cure will be when we can rewrite and organisms genetics wholesale, which we are not exactly close to.
Treatments are poor, the condition itself and its systemic effects are almost unstudied. Most doctors either dont know about it or their knowledge stops at 'flexible'. Some doctors (surgeons esp) may even decline to work with you if you disclose EDS.
CSF leak, either from a lumbar puncture, or from things like chiari malformation and other cervical abnormalities are a well known phenomenon within the community. A person complaining of persistent postural headaches usually gets csf leak as the first response from said community. It is however, incredibly difficult to get a doctor to be willing to diagnose it, to have it competently found, and then patched.
Yeah thats not what happened, if we are referring to the same incident.
He had had a close friend pass recently and he had, within the last few weeks, used mushrooms to help treat the depression/grief. Ie he did not crash the plane mid psychotic break slash psychadelic trip.
I never claimed that he was mid-trip? But by his own admission, the use of mushrooms induced some form of psychosis that distorted his ability to perceive time or understand what and what is not reality. I fully support decriminalization of psychedelics, but I also don’t think they’re free from harms, especially for those with mental health problems.
Huh, didnt realise they had one to use. Every time we have tried to pay with card in japan it has been either impossible or a huge song and dance, even involving the old click clack slide impression carbon paper tools.
When's the last time you were in Japan? I can't remember the last time I carried cash in JP unless I knew, ahead of time, that I was going to a ramen joint that used a vending machine. Between Suica on your phone and a credit card, you rarely ever need cash in big cities.
Smaller towns are a bit of a different story though.
I was in Tokyo a few months ago and I could pay with my foreign credit card in most stores (supermarkets, department stores, chain stores, ...) Even NFC and Google Pay worked, which still don't in Korea for instance.
The Tokyo Metro booth at Haneda doesn't accept credit cards though, I had to withdraw cash in order to get a Pasmo (the JR booth was already closed for the evening).
At restaurants, cafés and small stores it was usually either cash only, or cash plus a combination among the dozen mobile payments solutions that exist in Japan. Very confusing.
Nowadays it should be more seameless, but yes a while ago foreign credit cards were a PITA to use in most places. And there's still many services that aren't set to trigger 3Dsecure at payment, making EU cards virtually unusable.
Is the European 3DSecure verification only for non-card present transactions or for all? Otherwise, businesses using NFC readers shouldn't pose a problem for european tourists.
