They didn’t encode/reencode anything with popularity>0.

What they are providing is the same as the available source.

They did reencode songs with popularity=0.

They are archiving what they could get from Spotify and in this case what they could get was encoded in a lossy format to begin with.

It doesn’t get any “more” lossy over time just being stored as an .ogg

It’s not the most welcoming read in terms of sci-fi but I love that book. That and its sequel (Echopraxia) do what sci-fi is supposed to do (make you think).

Regarding the labor costs, consider that you can go work in an Amazon warehouse and make ~$22 an hour for essentially unskilled labor.

Maybe working on an American Foxconn plant would be more desirable (I have my doubts) but I still couldn’t see the labor cost being less than $25/hr at a bare minimum

You’re both confusing Willamette with Yakima

I think a generator for that purpose would likely make a lot more sense. I can’t see buying an electric truck just so you can use its battery to weld. Maybe that’s a nice to have at best.

Betras said Trump’s success was a symptom of the Democrats’ failure to address the catastrophic impact of international trade agreements on manufacturing jobs in the US – a failure he pins on Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – and its further failure, under Obama, to take any meaningful action against Wall Street or the big banks after the housing collapse of 2007-08.

Whatever else you think about the article or about Ohio voters, these are valid and accurate criticisms in my view.

Lol I’m sure you think that was a very witty and biting retort

Dang, removed by mod. I got here too late to see it :(

Didn’t you literally say you were offended by some people you don’t know choosing to go to Laos…?

smh Apple playing 5th dimensional chess again making stupid design decisions to get the all important lemmy advertising for free.

Tim apple is truly a genius

They were talking about warehouse workers, not corporate employees.

No rank and file US-based employees at Amazon are getting years of severance. They don’t do that.

He uses a handful of different styles

Firefox can do without Google being the default fine. What they can’t do without is all the money that Google pays them to make Google be the default.

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Doesn’t everyone pick their ideals to care about?

You know, I don’t disagree with your ultimate point. But if you look through this comment chain you should recognize that the way you chose to make it is:

1. Needlessly antagonistic, and (therefore)
2. Not very effective

If you wanted to convince anyone or provoke interesting discussion I think you failed.

In the future, you should just make your argument/statement instead of asking “clever” bad faith questions.

Reread A Fire Upon the Deep just a week or two ago.

Amazing SF writer.

He may have PTSD and he may have had 1,000 hours of firearms training, but if you empty your magazine the way he did, under the circumstances he did, you’re incompetent to be a police officer. Period.

And even he apparently recognizes that since he resigned (though whether he’ll just go get hired the next town over is probably a decent bet).

It’s a race to the bottom.

Yes, you can decline to opt in, but the guy next to you (or the guy next to him) will opt in and sell his AI voice package for less than it costs to employ a real person. And unlike a real person, the AI voice package can work 24/7 on 10,000 productions at the same time.

If anyone can opt in, then no one can really opt out.

Is this a good thing? For the bottom line of the people making the games, sure. And maybe 3% of that savings will trickle down to the consumer.

But it’s pretty bad for the voice actors.