Comment Re:Dam Removal (Score 0) 66
The cheapest energy is renewable, and you can generate it yourself. It's the ultimate democratization of energy.
The cheapest energy is renewable, and you can generate it yourself. It's the ultimate democratization of energy.
The issue is that if it makes gas more profitable, there will be more gas consumption. Low carbon sources must be the cheapest and everything else is going to have to be phased out for all be a limited number of exceptions where there really is no alternative.
A US judge has struck down a lawsuit brought by X against a nonprofit group that researched toxic content on the social media platform, finding the Elon Musk-owned company’s case appeared to be an attempt at “punishing” the group for exercising free speech.
Even if the mastering is digital, the analogue nature of the vinyl format softens the sound a lot.
Vinyl has a few limitations. It can't reproduce very high frequencies, so some of the aliasing from the digital master is removed with a low pass filter. You also can't apply too much compression (audio compression that makes quiet things louder, giving that "wall of sound" effect, not digital data compression) because the stylus will come out of the groove or get damaged if you do, so you are forced to have more dynamic range and separation of instruments.
In the worst case they take the over-compressed CD version and pass it through some filters to make it manufacturable on vinyl, but it's easier to just take a copy from earlier in the mastering process before it has been compressed in the first place.
The vinyl format physically can't be the same master as the CD. If they made a disc that loud, the needle would jump out of the tracks. When the sound turns into a maximum range modulated square wave, you can't put that on vinyl and expect it to play back properly.
It's not much extra work at all to produce a second master for the vinyl. Many sound engineers do it anyway, creating a well mixed version of a track, and then compressing the hell out of it at the end. They just need to take the copy they saved before screwing it up.
Because the US at least nominally follows the rules of law and doesn't collectively punish innocent people.
Yep. There is no confidence in the UK economy or long term outlook, so it's hard to get investment in. Companies prefer to bumble along, rather than take chances on innovation.
Employees aren't encouraged to innovate much either, because the rewards simply aren't there. No big bonuses, no stock options, below inflation annual salary increases. It doesn't feel like it's worth the effort to go above and beyond.
One issue I've seen with training is that they don't want to give big salary increases afterwards. Once trained that person will be able to get more money elsewhere if they don't offer it. Why not offer it? They seem to think that other employees will be upset if they give free training and big salary increases to one of their colleagues. They'd rather avoid the whole mess by just hiring someone new.
The UK is a low wage economy by European standards. You can earn a lot more in the EU, if you can get there post-brexit. Ireland is a good bet for developers because you can just move there, no visa required.
Require all crypto mining and ML to be done with renewable energy, with a 200% investment in it. Wasting energy on that crap is no problem if it also funds more renewables.
Something has gone badly wrong if you can't stop people burning coal and tyres to mine crypto, without also affecting the transition to EVs.
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