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by jrajav 4y ago
Yes, because of the other fact that lowest earners' wages have stagnated for decades in the face of those gains and are currently unlivable.
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There are several sources that measure with this in mind, focusing on production and non-supervisory workers, or by breaking it down by sector. Here's one such: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ I haven&#x
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You're assuming that raising the minimum wage will automatically result in more unemployment, but that is empirically not the case. Higher minimum wages implemented in Europe and in the US have usually translated to local economic boos
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The elephant in the room is that the US labor market is, as a whole, already taking advantage of lowest earners across the board. They are getting paid less than the lowest earners from any prior time historically, while cost of living is o
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If you're going to make claims that don't align with academic consensus and empirical evidence (that higher minimum wage is net bad for the lowest earners, or for the economy as a whole, or that it reduces employment), you'll
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The latest Zoom field recorders support 32-bit float recording and achieve a wider dynamic range than that (upwards of 210db) by having a circuit with two different ADCs. Also, it's less about the absolute resolution, and more about th
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There are two justifications, one, for recording - 24-bit is the standard in the studio yes (and more than you need for that context indeed), but 32-bit is more and more the standard for field recordings where the hardware is capable of it
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32-bit is common in field recordings, like with a Zoom (and there's reason to believe they can legitimately take advantage of it).
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We don't always record and export at 24-bit, though that's always the end result from mastering (if not 16-bit). In some contexts, 32-bit files are common for samples and for transferring in-progress artifacts like mixed tracks th
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You're absolutely right insofar as you're speaking about static audio that's already been produced and finished - there is almost no point in storing anything above 24-bit integer as far as dynamic range even for archival pur
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Sorry, no it doesn't. The point under discussion is affirmative action, that is, specifically targeting and aiding underrepresented groups, so you're just misunderstanding the premise in the first place - but also, to say 'a
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Are you implying that people in favor of and/or implementing affirmative action members share some culpability in far-right terrorist acts? Huh. In my book, deciding to leave civil society for untargeted violence against innocent peopl
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I'm a meat eater and also very invested in reducing my environmental impact despite that, and I'm very interested in learning more about this. Can you point me to your original sources?
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I also wondered this - initially I saw that the chart linked had a "Lifecycle Analysis" and so I nodded and went on my way thinking that disposal had been accounted for. I'm glad you brought it up, because upon looking at the
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I don't think the author, or anyone who eats meat (and is intellectually honest and invested in environmental impact), is trying to argue that it's not expensive. But if you've already made the ethical choice that you still w
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There's no citation needed, there's some education needed. It's a simple fact that discrimination occurs against atheists in many contexts - political, social, professional. You're setting a very odd, nonsensical definit
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The "land doesn't use resources" argument seems a bit out of nowhere, because we've been talking about people the whole time here - people's ownership of land. That's also why I mentioned valuable land and not
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Indeed, the nature of the fourier transform is what allows for the signal to be perfectly reconstructed in theory for frequencies below Nyquist. More practically, it's not only filtering but also the slewing nature of both the analog p
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You aren't permanently consuming a portion of the most important finite resource in a state (the land) by buying a cell phone or a sports car. You're certainly taking advantage of public resources and services on a global scale wi
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And people who own more valuable land benefit proportionally more from state services.
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I think MoFi deserves to be held to task for this, and I don't envy anyone who got misled about the product they paid their hard-earned money for. Like the author, though, I'm still going to use this opportunity to try to confirm
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I disagree with you on the basis that I can get in my car right now and be confident that I'll be able to drive with speed and safety to any city on the map, and that when I get there I'll be able to drink the tap water and to plu
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Costs of deployment and profit margins have nothing to do with it. The US public has subsidized the cost of broadband internet deployment since the very birth of the internet, and continues to do so like clockwork every few years. Private I
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So taxpayer dollars are necessary to make this business viable, and the product of that business is something that, realistically, everyone absolutely needs access to - certainly seems like this should not be a private business at all but a
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I assumed we were talking about the high-tonnage 18-wheeler semis in context, not last-mile delivery.
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Looks like the start to some great content. Some suggestions on the formatting: - Don't target="_blank" links. Maybe do it for external links, but ideally not even those. You might like everything to open in a new tab, but yo
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Are trucks an unavoidable reality of transportation? I don't think so. If there are ways to transport those staples aside from using trucks, it seems like an effective tax on using trucks would just be an optimization that encourages a
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Those genres are far and away the most popular forms of music for an entire generation now, and exhibit a high degree of craftsmanship with techniques never used before them. Whether you personally enjoy the music or not, an honest academic
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I don't think current music theory is excessively academic, I think it's not academic or rigorous enough. Many institutions languish in studying harmonic theory to the exclusion of many other modes of musical analysis. This leaves
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I see what you're saying, and defining what makes art is nebulous to the point of being impossible. Rather than a positive proof, I would just counter by asking whether you think art can be defined purely by its aesthetics, or by virtu

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