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Mark Goldenstein
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Mark Goldenstein's personal blog at markgoldenstein.com covers programming and economics. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Spotify and others use an unfair formula to pay artists”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mark Goldenstein's posts on how Spotify's payout formula treats streams and on building a websocket btcwallet client. Comments mostly cite the Spotify post as support.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Mark Goldenstein — Building AI developer tools at AWS. Software Engineer and photographer in Seattle.
Most-linked posts?
- Spotify and others use an unfair formula to pay artists3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-06-29
What Hacker News says?
> "actually stealing" A lot of people throw those words around in this industry. Here's another case of "actual theft" I worry about. If I'm the only fan of an indie band, and I use my spotify subscription to stream that band a few times a day and nothing else, Spotify's algorithm promptly takes my $10 and uses it to pay more widely popular artists, to attract Taylors to the service. In the loose way you used it, Sp…
Comment linking /spotify-others-use-unfair-formula-pay-artists/
on “Spotify's Spam War”Submitted Spotify and others use an unfair formula to pay artists as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSurely if all the bad streams are coming from the same small number of accounts, or maybe many accounts that don't pay much/any subscription, this problem is simply neutralised by rejigging the payout formula? Assuming this is still the case: http://markgoldenstein.com/spotify-others-use-unfair-formula... then by calculating revenue more fairly as per the formula in the above link the problem goes away. e.g. Instead…
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on “Spotify's Spam War”nice to see btcd getting more usage, goldmar :) for the related blog entry with some more details, check out http://markgoldenstein.com/building-websocket-client-btcwall... we just recently released a small library that makes using the JSON-RPC much easier, and it should work with both bitcoind and btcd https://github.com/conformal/btcrpcclient this makes some of the things mark mentioned a bit less painful, e.g. ma…
Comment linking /building-websocket-client-btcwallet-using-scala-akka/
on “Show HN: bitcoin-akka – a btcwallet client, written in Scala and built on akka”