Interesting Links for 04-01-2018

[andrewducker]

Digital streaming behind biggest rise in UK music sales for two decades

(tags: business music streaming spotify uk )

Here’s what the evidence shows about the links between creativity and depression

(tags: creativity depression psychology )

Iceland introduces fines for firms that don’t pay men and women equally

(tags: Iceland gender pay equality )

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

(tags: bug processor design epicfail Intel )

Wrestler vs 9 Year Old Girl (I can't see how anyone would think that wrestling was faked)

(tags: Wrestling girls video funny viaElfy )

The latest horribly dangerous health fad: unfiltered untreated water

(tags: health water OhForFucksSake )

High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness

(tags: vitaminD health heart )

Trump didn't think he could be president - and didn't think he should be.

(tags: politics usa OhForFucksSake )

Genetic analysis of ancient Alaskan child suggests the region was settled by people crossing from Asia 25,000 years ago

(tags: Alaska prehistory America asia )

Who Took the Legendary Earthrise Photo From Apollo 8?

(tags: photos moon history space )

Some quotes illustrating why the government's new Universities Regulator isn't suitable to hold *any* job

(tags: sexism Twitter OhForFucksSake Conservatives )

If you earn an average UK salary, by the end of today a top boss will have earned more than you do all year.

(tags: uk pay inequality )

A Breakthrough Blindness Treatment Will Cost $425,000 Per Eye, If It Works

(tags: eyes medicine money )

Comments

[heron61]

Digital streaming behind biggest rise in UK music sales for two decades That's definitely awesome news, but looking at the article, I remain utterly baffled that people prefer paid streaming to purchasing digital music (and that digital music is by far the smallest category. As with DRM-stripping my ebooks, I want to own and possess the data I like, not to have its availability dependent upon the willingness and capability of someone else to allow me access to it. OTOH, unpaid streaming is, from my PoV at least, an awesome way to encounter new music.

[rmc28]

As someone who pays for streaming ... it massively lowers the barriers for trying new music and finding stuff I like. If I really like something then I'll buy it, but I usually need to listen to things a couple of times to decide if I want to listen to it forever or that was a pleasant enough experience but I don't feel the need to have more. And paying the cost of one album per month to 'try out' a lot more than one album per month seems like a good deal.

[naath]

I don't buy music mmuch but with books I'm a read onnce person. I don't want the storage costs, and don't care if I can read it again next year.

[andrewducker]

I like having access to a huge range of music. Buying the music I have for streaming (and have listened to in the last year) would cost me a few thousand pounds. Having access to it costs me about £120/year.

If things vanished from Spotify and I couldn't listen to it any more then I'd probably download it (if I cared). Or, more likely, listen to some of the thousands of other songs I have available.