Unfortunately, politicians are too busy playing culture war to dig deep on policy for just about anything. They choose inaction, they choose ignorance.
Carbon aside, it will be interesting to see how this plays out in Texas, where the electrical grid is tenuous.
But to your point, looking at things from sustainability minded perspective (and even opting to ignore value of product as it stands right now), why yes, BTC is bad.
Maybe the biggest advancement in societal development is the idea that in some ways, many ways actually, non-development is the most advanced form of development.
I think we are at an in between stage of development. Some tech but basically primitive tech. Like we have cars, but they are not capable enough to go over most surfaces, so we have to pave over where ever we want to go. Advanced tech would be putting us in more pleasant and natural environments but able to summon a cat bus https://totoro.fandom.com/wiki/Catbus for transportation. And have unobtrusive medical treatment things around in case they are needed. But trees and animals and so on on the surface. Tree houses, sure, but not interstate highways. Floating cities, why not. First we need energy, then we need safe nanotech and then we need a mechanical understanding of biology.
Many types of music have additional requirements, at least for discovery. For example, how about cover songs? It would be nice to find every available version of All Along the Watchtower. This is not unique to classical so why not fix in the parent app?
There are still a ton of differences: contemporary music doesn't have the same divisions of works into movements separate from what appears on an album (you don't generally have covers of entire albums); while a cover of a particular song is a common search, it is far less common to try and find all covers by other artists from a particular artists (i.e. all piano works by Beethoven); and finally, most contemporary music has a single name meanwhile most famous classical works have many (opus/catalogue number, sonata number, nicknames, foreign language names, etc.).
As a bonus, most contemporary music probably also doesn't feature dozens of artists (while the whole orchestra usually isn't listed individually, all the soloists in an opera often are). That said, I think this is one area where apps have improved.
Patching one app into another for improved UX and categorization is bonkers.
Also, my kid wanted to use Apple Music classical first thing this morning (he’s a big classical music nut), you literally have to be logged in to regular Apple Music before Classical will allow you to play anything. Weird.
I don‘t think they „patched“ stuff. Without knowing much about it I‘d guess they just took the backend, put it behind an Apple API and then built a new app based on that. The frontend there is probably the easier part and likely the reason it‘s only available on iOS at this point.
You have to be logged into Apple Music before you can play Apple Music, regardless of whether you're using the Music app, the Classical app, or the web app. I'm not sure what's weird about that?
Oh, are you saying you can't log in using the Classical app, but have to use the other one? That would be weird.
One fallacy of web design, of any design, is that in order to be “good” it must be easy.
Sometimes there is a learning curve. Conceptual hurdles abound with a complex tool like GitHub. Working through hurdles help you grow as a technologist and as person —but having the right attitude going in, that’s on you.
A contest isn't about teaching the people running the contest new tools. The contest is about different groups (or people) competing on a level playing field.
Also, nobody ever said that design can't be, or shouldn't be complex. But web hosting is simple. You put files in a directory and point a web server to them, and it just works. If it doesn't, that's a failing of the designers.
Complexity of design and complexity of delivery are two totally different things, and complexity of design has (or should have) absolutely nothing to do with complexity of delivery.
It’s worth noting that this particular Warhol piece was done much later in his career after he had established his style. Usually he didn’t even execute the work, it was done by assistants in the studio. This painting of Prince is an example of Warhol as art business — which incidentally was one of his statements as an artist.
Opinion: bout the photo and the painting are actually not very good representation of either artists work. I imagine both the photo and the painting would be considered unimportant if it wasn’t for this legal wrangling.
There are many ways that this issue could be approached. For example, could Warhol be allowed fair use in execution but, post-mortem, his estate pay? After all, one thing that the author of the article did not go into is that this argument is really no longer about the creative act.
Publish all content to blockchain and let the users create their own interfaces as they choose. But first make all content equally and indisputably available?
