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

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.