The entire point of analog is that it’s “worse”

They’re savoring the patina.

Also, you could spool them with a pencil.

Which you only had to do to recover from a common media failure mode.

Vinyl has to be mastered differently (using the RIAA equalization curve) because vinyl is a crap medium. Low frequencies, unequalized, can cause the stylus to jump out of the groove. High frequencies tend to be attenuated. And it’s noisy as well, and the noise gets worse over time. The “warmth” afiicionados treasure is mainly harmonic distortion from the amp reconsituting the equalized sound.

On a solid system, there’s a lot more fidelity in the bass on vinyl.

See above. Bass has to be compressed in order to be written to vinyl in a way that doesn’t damage the record on playback. The amp then decompresses it before you hear it. Compression and decompression do not increase fidelity, instead what you get is a decompressed signal with the same reduced resolution as the compressed signal on the vinyl. In other words, you lose fidelity during the compression process, and information which is lost cannot be put back in later.

mainly fake nostalgia

Is there any other kind?

I did a collaboration once where we were considering doing a limited release of a one-off song on an Edison cylinder recording.

Turns out that yes, there are firms that produce them, but those fuckers are expensive.

And notice that nobody wants to release on 8-track tape cartridges. That’s because those things sucked.

In other words, an asshole who tells the sociopathic rich what they want to hear.

It’d settle for it being neutral for us but bad for them.

If libertarian tech bros are against it, we must be on the right track.

We need a lot more candidates like Mamdani. We don’t need any billionaires. Nobody voted for them, they only exist due to a flaw in the system.

I’m sure they’re not including Russia, Israel or Saudi Arabia, though.

Yep. Crying about the world no longer having billionaires would be like holding a funeral for a tapeworm.

The scammers are already all over it like flies on shit.

Now factor in the launch costs, and make sure to include the probability of launch and deployment failures.

And keep in mind that, if they don’t do it, the sun transmits energy to the earth for free.

Or make more use of renewables. Nuclear has never been cost-efficient, it’s just that the costs have been buried in state subsidies to the industry and its supply chain.

Someone wants public subsidy money.

Look at the ROI, and if the full lifecycle cost is greater than earth-based solutions, fuck 'em.

This is the dawn of the new Chinese century.

Betting on a totalitarian kleptocracy saving the world is as unwise as betting in the 1980s that already overworked Japanese wage slaves could be overworked even further.

Chinese infrastructure and manufacturing lead is real.

And if you ignore the theory of comparative advantage, not only is it real, but it also matters. Otherwise, not.

I also run a consistent payment deficit with my barber. Should that be corrected?

But knowing what’s real and what’s bullshit is an absolutely essential prerequisite for progress.

No. I don’t think that either Trump’s idiots, nor the CCP, know more than I do.

the the talk of nationalistic races is just being used for investor buy in

Even more, it’s being used to milk the taxpayers for more subisidies that get translated (in a very lossy way) into more executive bonuses.