skaalf

> How doesn't it make sense? Apple Music has fewer paying subscribers than Spotify, Apple Music prices just like Spotify's prices vary per market, Spotify pays out 70% of revenue to royalties but Apple Music is able to pay much more per stream even though it has fewer subscribers.

Because streaming platform do not pay per stream making pay per stream a meaningless metric.

Spotify has ~half of its users using the free tier (with ads) and the other half are subscribers. On average a subscriber generates waaaaay more revenue than free users ( this is visible in Spotify's financial results). Apple does not have a "free" version. If Spotify were to simply abandon their free version and became paying subscribers only like Apple, pay per stream would almost double but at the end of the month, artists (and Spotify) would get less money. Which is preferable ? More money at the end of the month or higher pay-per-stream ?

On top of that music streaming is very seasonal (total music consumption varies by month) so pay-per-stream is not even a stable metric.

For any personal data collection, explicit consent from the user is required. An online store can only collect data necessary for the purpose of the service. So it has to ask for my explicit consent to legally collect personal data required to deliver a package like for example my name, address and phone number, but can't ask me about say, my marital status or religion.

There's no ambiguity when you're using closures. Concerning partial function application, you need a special syntax anyway (unless you consider all functions to be curried by default). You don't do that to save keystrokes, you omit parenthesis because "All services offered by a module should be available through a uniform notation, which does not betray whether they are implemented through storage or through computation."

I used scala for a while, I admit there's a whole bunch of features that can get you confused. This takes 30s to spot.

That's not the same thing. You obviously use partial application only if the function takes params. And I just can't see why you'd like to pass a reference on a parameter-less function.