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Most apps widely used in Korea are homegrown. They have enough content to dominate the market.

You're plainly uninformed. The Korean equivalent of FAANG (네카라쿠배당토) are all completely different corporate entities, and the biggest apps outside of that are mostly startups. Also,…

Korean "homegrown" apps are usually more successful domestically. They don't need help from the government when US-based apps are years late to the game, not well localized, and no…

Audiation is a basic skill for any instrument. Accomplished musicians are trivially able to improvise complex melodies that they can play and sing simultaneously.

The Spanish flu didn't originate in Spain -- its origins are disputed, but it was first observed in the US. I'm surprised you didn't get this memo by now, but Spain gained that ign…

It's no longer musical notation, but audio recordings that are the "text," or primary source for popular music. This principle applies even only from a practical perspective, as th…

Having such freedom available is of no use if people won't make use of it. You assume a "nanny web" is about taking away these freedoms, when in fact it's about incentivizing peopl…

Just like people, not markets, create deadweight loss, rent, and negative externalities, and people, not institutions, cause systemic racism? /s The web is a complex system that is…

No, anticompetitive behavior is not determined with a single question. It's a whole field of study. You may as well say companies evaluate their code by the single criteria of "how…

Your argument presumes that the natural tendency of the web is to foster a free and open market of ideas, rather than a system of closed echo chambers each inhabiting distinct real…

Predatory pricing is the issue here, not high cost of entry. Anti-competitive activities have specific definitions rooted in the study of industrial organization. You can't go arou…

The exact same could be said about Freedom of Speech itself. Or any other fundamental freedom/privilege for that matter. Potential for abuse is grounds for mitigation, not wholesal…

Agree with everything you said except for the fact that you seem to be using "communist" to mean "authoritarian/fascist."

Nobody's looking for "less clicks" when choosing social media platforms. The product sold by a social media platform is its network of users. There are many alternative services ou…

I see. I took "extremely regular" to mean conforming to an equidistant grid structure, while you seem to have been talking about the consistency in repetition that makes it a groov…

I was remarking on your comment that timing variation is noise, as you're relegating far too much into that category due to your narrow view on what counts as musical intent. Rhyth…

Consistent microtiming deviations or other forms of "expressive timing" are an essential element to "groove" or rhythmic "feel" in almost all modern popular styles of music. Things…

Except self-sufficiency in critical industries like food and fuel ARE prime examples of things that any sane country fights tooth and nail for even today. The US has been pushing f…

I've edited the comment to clarify, but you're right that they're functionally similar. I was talking mainly in terms of user experience, though. Setting up multiple separate profi…

No, Profiles are an entirely separate feature that Firefox also has. Setting up separate profiles for every major site could achieve something similar, but that would obviously be …