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Brrr.money

johny115 5y ago
It nearly broke my monitor lol! I have modern designer level BenQ 4k monitor and I watched the money go BRRRRRRR for about a minute and then when I turned off, there was burned in image still flashing. I never knew this was even possible on modern monitor. Luckily after doing couple restarts, in about 10 min it dissipated.
appstorelottery 5y ago
Lol - that slider
black-tusk 5y ago
I felt worlds collide when the Economist chose this as a subhead on government covid deficits
solarpunk 5y ago
Lmao why intial d eurobeat and not loituma?
echelon 5y ago
Acrobatic_Road, if this is your site, I'll be happy to set you up with API access to FakeYou.com so you can use the JPow voice. https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:6r1d0n9rq20e https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:6r1d0n9rq20e
- kayson 5y ago
  Are any of these models any good? Every one I tried was pretty horrible
  - dannyw 5y ago
    Many commercial products (Descript, etc) are hella good; so is 15.ai ( https://15.ai/ https://15.ai/ ) The tinker in me wishes there existed a high quality open source voice synthesis solution, but I get it, ethical concerns (plus making $$$ if it's locked behind an API).
  - echelon 5y ago
    https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:ffk6sxmrj60492pf7jymqv3fqz4q5 https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:ffk6sxmrj60492pf7jymqv3fqz... The models are mostly user trained and submitted, and can widely in quality. Some of them are great, but many of them are not. This one is trained on graphemes only (no Arpabet phonemes, which hinders pronunciation), and doesn't have a fine tuned vocoder (which causes spectral distortion "noise"). No notes on the data set source or quality. It's about what I'd expect for a Jpow model.
- Acrobatic_Road 5y ago
  Not my site but neat :).
icyfox 5y ago
Right when I feel like the internet's becoming too corporate and optimized towards SEO for the sake of profit and profit alone, I land on a gem like this. Thank you brrr lords for bearing the webhosting cost for something fun.
- deleted 5y ago
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- Kye 5y ago
  It's lead generation for the project behind it.
  - RikNieu 5y ago
    It's still fun!
  - brobinson 5y ago
    The "Institute for Memetic Research & Development" (feat. Harold)? lol https://memetic.institute/ https://memetic.institute/ There's no money being made here but donations it seems.
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- basementcat 5y ago
  For some reason this reminded me of the Prime Number Shitting Bear. https://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/ https://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/
- soco 5y ago
  I bookmarked it in the Blockchain folder, just in case.
a-dub 5y ago
this was cool two years ago. it needs an update for this year's situation. how about a slow reverse mode that plays the music in reverse, runs the animation in reverse and then kicks the slider back forward as things appear to smack into a wall?
jancsika 5y ago
A Bitcoin-based economy would not suffer from this problem. Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency: 1. Donating to scihub 2. Reminding HN that a list with a single element in it is still a valid list.
- mirntyfirty 5y ago
  A Bitcoin based economy would be unable to handle more than an infinitesimal number of transactions that take place and would be remarkably slow handling that infinitesimal amount of transactions. Price volatility would prevent businesses from selling in Bitcoin, workers from being paid in Bitcoin, taxes being collected in Bitcoin, and international trade agreements being contracted in Bitcoin.
- echelon 5y ago
  > A Bitcoin-based economy would not suffer from this problem. I rather like the ability of my government to use monetary policy to create favorable environments for growth. Sometimes we get a bit ahead of ourselves and things come crashing down, but when it's good it's great. > Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency: There are lots of bad use cases for crypto. 1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and terrorist financing 2. Crypto creators and whales get much of the upside. Why should we reward them rather than transact with the currencies our governments use? Governments which provide an actual social safety net? 3. People can lose a lot of money with dumb mistakes. There are no support strings.
  - lordofgibbons 5y ago
    >1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and *terrorist financing* Citation needed. Almost all terror financing happens with fiat (the data was released by the FBI last year. I'll update this when I find the PDF), drug & human trafficking all happen with fiat (U.S Dollar specifically). Maybe we should ban the Dollar since it makes so many terrible things possible? Maybe encryption is bad too. I hear bad guys use it to hide their nefarious plots. /s
RocketOne 5y ago
That has got to be the most enjoyable site Ive been to all week. Call me shallow but Im loving Gas Gas Gas. Kudos.
webkike 5y ago
Man, people really don’t understand economics. What point is this even trying to make?
- darepublic 5y ago
  inflation due to overprinting of money, as evidenced by BTC and DJI crazy high stock values. things with known intrinsic worth continue to climb higher in USD, which, for it's part, is cheapened as part of the madness of the west careening toward annihilation. the system is a self driving Tesla car and it's about to hit a pylon / dog / human thing.
knowaveragejoe 5y ago
pugworthy 5y ago
ELI5?
- Kye 5y ago
  A vocal subset of cryptocurrency pushers have as twisted a view on economics as mainstream economists. This is an art piece depicting one faulty view. bonus edit: Printing money could be a handy way to carry the country through the current deep structural change in the nature of the economy from one based on industry (putting capital to work) and finance (creating and allocating capital through loans) to one based on services. Instead, it's being used to prop up the existing system. The art piece is based on the widespread and faulty belief that a government's ability to create money is inherently bad.
  - pugworthy 5y ago
    Thank you.
  - judge2020 5y ago
    It's just a meme image, it's been a thing long before cryptocurrency people thought the Fed was trying to tank crypto or whatever: https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM & https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l8rf4k/times_square_right_now/ https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l8rf4k/time... & & https://youtu.be/GI7sBsBHdCk?t=117 https://youtu.be/GI7sBsBHdCk?t=117
  - Bancakes 5y ago
    This! So much this! Free money for everyone!
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_Microft 5y ago
Printing money addressed the immediate problem of having to save people and businesses during the pandemic. Now the mess needs to be cleaned up of course but how would one have solved that pandemic problem in a crypto currency world?
- shadowgovt 5y ago
  Purely hypothetically: allow large institutions with external credit-backing (in the Pratchett sense... "four gold golems") to transact when they have no money, essentially gaining a negative balance. In other words, there's technically nothing about crypto stopping a large, trusted institution from deficit-spending if people allowed the rules to allow it. Of course, if the rules of the crypto network disallow it, then institutions can't spend on future value and you get a sovereign bankruptcy situation. Few people who have lived through one would recommend it.
judge2020 5y ago
This site isn't trying to say anything at all, by the way. It's been up since the original money printer meme started[0] back in March 2020, as a response to interest rates falling extremely low in an effort to stimulate the economy. 0: https://github.com/memetic-institute/Money-printer-go-BRRR/commits/master https://github.com/memetic-institute/Money-printer-go-BRRR/c... - the meme https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM

It nearly broke my monitor lol! I have modern designer level BenQ 4k monitor and I watched the money go BRRRRRRR for about a minute and then when I turned off, there was burned in image still flashing. I never knew this was even possible on modern monitor. Luckily after doing couple restarts, in about 10 min it dissipated.

appstorelottery 5y ago

Lol - that slider

black-tusk 5y ago

I felt worlds collide when the Economist chose this as a subhead on government covid deficits

solarpunk 5y ago

Lmao why intial d eurobeat and not loituma?

echelon 5y ago

Acrobatic_Road, if this is your site, I'll be happy to set you up with API access to FakeYou.com so you can use the JPow voice. https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:6r1d0n9rq20e https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:6r1d0n9rq20e

kayson 5y ago
Are any of these models any good? Every one I tried was pretty horrible
- dannyw 5y ago
  Many commercial products (Descript, etc) are hella good; so is 15.ai ( https://15.ai/ https://15.ai/ ) The tinker in me wishes there existed a high quality open source voice synthesis solution, but I get it, ethical concerns (plus making $$$ if it's locked behind an API).
- echelon 5y ago
  https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:ffk6sxmrj60492pf7jymqv3fqz4q5 https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:ffk6sxmrj60492pf7jymqv3fqz... The models are mostly user trained and submitted, and can widely in quality. Some of them are great, but many of them are not. This one is trained on graphemes only (no Arpabet phonemes, which hinders pronunciation), and doesn't have a fine tuned vocoder (which causes spectral distortion "noise"). No notes on the data set source or quality. It's about what I'd expect for a Jpow model.
Acrobatic_Road 5y ago
Not my site but neat :).

icyfox 5y ago

Right when I feel like the internet's becoming too corporate and optimized towards SEO for the sake of profit and profit alone, I land on a gem like this. Thank you brrr lords for bearing the webhosting cost for something fun.

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Kye 5y ago
It's lead generation for the project behind it.
- RikNieu 5y ago
  It's still fun!
- brobinson 5y ago
  The "Institute for Memetic Research & Development" (feat. Harold)? lol https://memetic.institute/ https://memetic.institute/ There's no money being made here but donations it seems.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
basementcat 5y ago
For some reason this reminded me of the Prime Number Shitting Bear. https://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/ https://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/
soco 5y ago
I bookmarked it in the Blockchain folder, just in case.

a-dub 5y ago

this was cool two years ago. it needs an update for this year's situation. how about a slow reverse mode that plays the music in reverse, runs the animation in reverse and then kicks the slider back forward as things appear to smack into a wall?

jancsika 5y ago

A Bitcoin-based economy would not suffer from this problem. Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency: 1. Donating to scihub 2. Reminding HN that a list with a single element in it is still a valid list.

mirntyfirty 5y ago
A Bitcoin based economy would be unable to handle more than an infinitesimal number of transactions that take place and would be remarkably slow handling that infinitesimal amount of transactions. Price volatility would prevent businesses from selling in Bitcoin, workers from being paid in Bitcoin, taxes being collected in Bitcoin, and international trade agreements being contracted in Bitcoin.
echelon 5y ago
> A Bitcoin-based economy would not suffer from this problem. I rather like the ability of my government to use monetary policy to create favorable environments for growth. Sometimes we get a bit ahead of ourselves and things come crashing down, but when it's good it's great. > Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency: There are lots of bad use cases for crypto. 1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and terrorist financing 2. Crypto creators and whales get much of the upside. Why should we reward them rather than transact with the currencies our governments use? Governments which provide an actual social safety net? 3. People can lose a lot of money with dumb mistakes. There are no support strings.
- lordofgibbons 5y ago
  >1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and *terrorist financing* Citation needed. Almost all terror financing happens with fiat (the data was released by the FBI last year. I'll update this when I find the PDF), drug & human trafficking all happen with fiat (U.S Dollar specifically). Maybe we should ban the Dollar since it makes so many terrible things possible? Maybe encryption is bad too. I hear bad guys use it to hide their nefarious plots. /s

RocketOne 5y ago

That has got to be the most enjoyable site Ive been to all week. Call me shallow but Im loving Gas Gas Gas. Kudos.

webkike 5y ago

Man, people really don’t understand economics. What point is this even trying to make?

darepublic 5y ago
inflation due to overprinting of money, as evidenced by BTC and DJI crazy high stock values. things with known intrinsic worth continue to climb higher in USD, which, for it's part, is cheapened as part of the madness of the west careening toward annihilation. the system is a self driving Tesla car and it's about to hit a pylon / dog / human thing.

knowaveragejoe 5y ago

pugworthy 5y ago

ELI5?

Kye 5y ago
A vocal subset of cryptocurrency pushers have as twisted a view on economics as mainstream economists. This is an art piece depicting one faulty view. bonus edit: Printing money could be a handy way to carry the country through the current deep structural change in the nature of the economy from one based on industry (putting capital to work) and finance (creating and allocating capital through loans) to one based on services. Instead, it's being used to prop up the existing system. The art piece is based on the widespread and faulty belief that a government's ability to create money is inherently bad.
- pugworthy 5y ago
  Thank you.
- judge2020 5y ago
  It's just a meme image, it's been a thing long before cryptocurrency people thought the Fed was trying to tank crypto or whatever: https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM & https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l8rf4k/times_square_right_now/ https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l8rf4k/time... & & https://youtu.be/GI7sBsBHdCk?t=117 https://youtu.be/GI7sBsBHdCk?t=117
- Bancakes 5y ago
  This! So much this! Free money for everyone!
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_Microft 5y ago

Printing money addressed the immediate problem of having to save people and businesses during the pandemic. Now the mess needs to be cleaned up of course but how would one have solved that pandemic problem in a crypto currency world?

shadowgovt 5y ago
Purely hypothetically: allow large institutions with external credit-backing (in the Pratchett sense... "four gold golems") to transact when they have no money, essentially gaining a negative balance. In other words, there's technically nothing about crypto stopping a large, trusted institution from deficit-spending if people allowed the rules to allow it. Of course, if the rules of the crypto network disallow it, then institutions can't spend on future value and you get a sovereign bankruptcy situation. Few people who have lived through one would recommend it.

judge2020 5y ago

This site isn't trying to say anything at all, by the way. It's been up since the original money printer meme started[0] back in March 2020, as a response to interest rates falling extremely low in an effort to stimulate the economy. 0: https://github.com/memetic-institute/Money-printer-go-BRRR/commits/master https://github.com/memetic-institute/Money-printer-go-BRRR/c... - the meme https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM