km3r

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by km3r 4y ago
Maybe treating an essential good as an investment was the wrong way to go about it.
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by km3r 4y ago
So add a vacancy tax (like SF and Oakland have). Even though our vacancy rate shows this is not a problem currently.
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by km3r 4y ago
> subsidized Subsidizes are fine, requirements are not.
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by km3r 4y ago
Affordable housing requirements lead to less overall units being built. That only makes the problem worse. Affordable housing subsidies help, because they enable both to be built. So often in the bay area we see large market rate developmen
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by km3r 4y ago
So who gets to decide who gets to live here then? Or just a lottery it out and hope people get lucky? If you flood the market with enough high density homes, some of those will be affordable. The ONLY true affordable housing is to make mark
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by km3r 4y ago
Different places may do it differently, but SF bases it off of a cap for the monthly payment for the mortgage. As interest rates went up this forced the price lower and some people had to sell at a loss. Roughly its monthly payment => a
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by km3r 4y ago
> the maximum the market will offer This is a function of supply (and demand), increase the supply the market will offer less.
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by km3r 4y ago
People have a right to move wherever they want. You don't have a right for things to not change. Grandma had a choice, make room for newcomers or price out kids and neighbors. Simple as that.
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by km3r 4y ago
If you can build 2 market rate units for every affordable unit, why would you build affordable? Why can't the millions of homes that exist today be the mid-range to affordable and just flood the market with market rate homes/
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by km3r 4y ago
"The hotel had bad water pressure so the Bay is full". I very much doubt SF is limited in expanded by water pipe capacity. Total water use, sure, but people use less water in a city then the suburbs anyways so it will be a net sav
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by km3r 4y ago
If they don't want the higher tax bill, keep housing prices down by allowing homes to be built. I really couldn't care less about the person who pushes up prices by blocking development having a higher tax bill.
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by km3r 4y ago
What situation would the US collapse not be the biggest global catastrophe since WW2? No matter where you escape everything is collapsing at that point. All though, to be clear, I think the risk of a collapse isn't worth worrying about
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by km3r 4y ago
I think thats an issue with crypto in general. The use cases of times where a bank fails and FDIC insurance doesn't work is a time where digital money is going to have little use. Now if you decide to trust a central entity just a tiny
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by km3r 4y ago
I did this with various different apartments trying to figure out which layout worked best with the furniture I already had (and the use cases I wanted to meet).
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by km3r 4y ago
Because it's regulatory capture. We hate it when big corporations do it, small towns shouldn't be able to either. If they were to fairly pay for it, maybe we could talk, but when things like Prop 13 exist, it's clear they are
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by km3r 4y ago
The diversification of the pool makes me think that in the coming years we will see some FinTech come in and bridge between the various parts and cut the ~3% fee down to a lower overall amount to try to gain a larger market share. Especiall
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by km3r 4y ago
No, the input for Ableton is a simple set of commands for how to control the synths to create the beat, the input for AI is text, the "specific art" maybe have created the model, but the model won't do anything without a prom
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by km3r 4y ago
> I think the market for artists is doomed. Art is the creative aspect not the skill in creating things. Art will be fine, those who just are scribes for painting are doomed.
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by km3r 4y ago
I can put a similarly simple "prompt" into Ableton to create a simple drum loop, then copyright the resulting song. What makes AI significantly different then an audio rendering engine such that only one can be copyrightable?
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by km3r 4y ago
The music industry is the biggest its ever been... so yes?
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by km3r 4y ago
The comparison to scribes is a perfect analogy. The 'scribing' of translating the idea of painting to an actual painting is being made more efficient. The actual creativity is what the original idea is, not the skill to put it on
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by km3r 4y ago
Humans aren't just reading, we're constantly updating our brains neural nets. Both the AI system and brains may be capable of writing a copyright infringing rip off of Harry Potter, but the ability to do so isn't infringement
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by km3r 4y ago
If a huge portion of Kenya can survive off of less than $2/hr (either from local companies or OpenAI) how do they not have a legitimate choice?
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by km3r 4y ago
If the alternative is paying them comparable American wage, they would just hire Americans.
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by km3r 4y ago
Better just apple than apple + hackers. Not ideal but incremental progress is still progress.
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by km3r 4y ago
Some fun info about gender and personal information I helped implement for our HR system: * Gender options are configured by a per country basis. As in the system admin sets up the available options per country(As well as a few other person
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by km3r 4y ago
Delegation is essential. There simply isn't enough time to regulate all the various industries that need regulation. Unless you want congress to read even less of what they pass than they do today. Congress can always override regulati
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by km3r 4y ago
So I can walk into your house as long as I start chipping in for rent and buy some of the groceries myself?
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by km3r 4y ago
The same reason I can't just walk into your house and make myself lunch out of your fridge. The people of this country have the same right as the owner of a house to control who can come in and to ask for some requirements as to do so.
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by km3r 4y ago
This isn't about parenting our citizens, it's about protecting America business from unfair foreign competition. China is a massive market they get exclusive access to that gives them a huge advantage. For example, they can afford

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