I Start Counting : Still Smiling YouTube video by AFallingBird

This is one that always sticks with me. Don't think it had a proper video; this one is fan-made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQNx...

You almost went a full 2 weeks without posting this story again.

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But I also think I was an edge case. I'm sure they could have sold *some* subscriptions but not enough to make it worth the content-licensing headaches.

And I say that as someone who once would have been a customer - I was living abroad when iPlayer first launched and I would have happily paid the full licence fee for access. I even asked an engineer on the team (who I saw at a tech conference) whether it was coming.

Then if you stripped out the stuff they don't have global rights for, uptake would be even lower. Unlikely that you'd replace more than a small fraction of current revenue this way.

Really doubt it's as simple as you made out.

Your financial model already is assuming that ~100% of people currently illicitly using iPlayer for £0 would become customers at £60. In reality, most would not.

Global iPlayer would be great, but a lot of content is licensed per-territory. I'm sure the reason it doesn't exist isn't because of lack of willingness on the BBC's part.

Sad to find there's no download code this time :-(

I guess they're out of fashion now but it's one of those bonuses that I always appreciate when buying vinyl.

In an alternate timeline where John Edwards won the nomination and his scandal broke in October, yes.

And, yes, it's also important that clean energy suppliers make some revenue if you want them to be able to pay off their initial capital outlay... and incentivise more construction.

That's why the current system is best. Because there is no penalty for bidding super-low, clean energy can always be sure to be on the grid. Dirty energy can't bid below their cost of fuel, so they're always the first ones disconnected. Exactly what we want.

I say "at least" because in a paid-what-you-bid system inevitably there will be times when renewable suppliers will guess too high and lose -- meaning we'd ramp up gas burning and curtail wind/solar for that bidding round.

If the bidding system were changed (in the way 90% of people seem to think would be an "obvious" fix) the price wouldn't suddenly be set by today's low bids. Instead those low bids would instantly evaporate and we'd be paying AT LEAST the same price.

So what most people (including Robert) miss is that they have cause-and-effect backwards. The low bids from renewables exist only *because* the system allows them to be placed without penalty.

Because in a system where you are only paid-what-you-bid every player is forced to guess where the final price will land, and try to bid just blow that. f you're confident that the market price of something is going to end up around £100 you'd be mad to offer to sell it for £5.

I know it's early in the process but is it likely to arrive on @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social? Or is the deal North America only so far?

Repost 41 of this story appears in a brisk 2 days... schedule seems to be speeding up again

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The 40th repost of this story appears only 2 days after the 39th. Thought it might be slowing down, but I guess not.

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Took 7 days for the 39th repost of this article to appear. At this rate it might be out of heavy rotation by 2040.

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The Girl From Ipanema is a far weirder song than you thought YouTube video by Adam Neely

And if anyone is looking for a deeper dive into the music theory:

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Just the 38 times so far. I'm sure we'll see it again 3 days from now.

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You've posted this story 8 times in the last half hour. Technical problems?

A more cost-conscious design that delivers 186mph would have been a better option from the start. The only question now is to what degree costs can be saved this far into the process.

One thing about rail, though, is that the costs expolode as you make them faster (e.g. designing a route for 220mph can be way more expensive than 200mph). And the tories decided "if we can't make it faster than the French, then it isn't worth doing"

Despite how it was promoted, the number one issue it solves is one of capacity. We desperately need *something* that adds North-South capacity to the network, and HS2 was one of the options.

The administration is suspending the Jones act; this video is pointing out that it's not going to help the current situation.

Old timers in Noe Valley who never stopped calling it Army St. are smug now I'm sure.

A perfect fit for a cinema on floor -2.

Forget Die Hard - Survive Style 5+ is the true Christmas movie

I wish your website was clearer about which releases are region-locked.