Now, however, as Kulash points out, record companies get paid – albeit a minuscule amount – every time a video is watched on YouTube.
It is based on the premise that every performance of a song has unique audio characteristics -- for example, a certain relationship of neighboring high and low notes over a minuscule slice of time.
"The private sector — people like myself, people that are allocators of capital, people that are professional analysts in the asset-management world — have the highest degree of knowledge to be able to sniff this out in a minuscule amount of time, like I did," he said.
Instead, they are driven by insurers to a relatively small pool of preferred providers whose payments are capped and who spend a minuscule amount of time and attention on each patient.
Some funds put their computer servers very close to stock exchanges for a minuscule reduction in the time it takes for data to be transmitted down the wires.Quants have been remarkably successful over the past decade, but in August last year something went badly wrong: within the space of a week many of their models ceased to work.
Could the U-turn be something to do with the vote it received last time – a minuscule 0.9percentt?
Add to that, flights from Boston to Reykjavik for as low as $129 (US) on budget airline WOWair, free 7-day layovers from IcelandAir, and a minuscule 4.5 hour flight time from NYC, and you've got the perfect storm for a blockbuster international music festival.
My most glorious moment working at Bullwinkle's (my only glorious moment working there, actually) was closing one night with my best friend from college who had been as desperate as I had been at that time for a minuscule paycheck.
WHAT may be one of the funniest shows on network television today has no writers, a minuscule production budget by prime-time standards, only one major star in its cast and the misfortune of appearing most often opposite "Friends" and "Survivor".
