thrwy_918

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by thrwy_918 3y ago
>This theory doesn't work very well, because there are lots of places where new construction is entirely uncapped (politicians are desperate for the new property tax growth), and prices still don't fall there Can you give an ex
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
When you have market power, your behavior has to be held to a higher standard. Apple has huge amounts of market power in the US cell phone market. It is totally clear to any reasonable observer that they are using that market power to dissu
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
What's the state of the art in run-it-yourself TTS? I haven't seen anything that even comes close to what ElevenLabs is doing
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
>ALL simulated voices sound like some real person somewhere By the same logic, all simulated faces look like some real person somewhere, but I wouldn't expect to simulate a face that looks like Brad Pitt and then use it in a TV comm
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
> I owe nothing to Morgan Freeman just because I sound like him What if a company chooses you as a voice artist largely on the basis that you sound like Morgan Freeman?
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
what percentage of users would you estimate are interested in choosing or writing a user style sheet?
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
"top 10 shareholders" is quite a specific class of shareholders
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
>since you can never get rid of it if you're an actual believer in NFTs, isn't that kind of the point?
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
AFAIK it is often perfectly possible to actually encode image data on-chain, it is just much more expensive (and much less common as a result)
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
> The whole point of laptops is portability. Many people want portability, but also want to use external displays at home or at the office .
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
I think an important difference, for me, is that at a certain point the chest of drawers is finished. Software - or at least, the kind of software I have worked on in my career - is never finished. It is a neverending ship of theseus. I can
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
>They want all the upsides and none of the downsides to throwing millions at people. I see what you're getting at, but this is a bit of a silly statement. The obvious downside of "throwing millions at people" is that you l
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
if you don't have to have any qualifications, certifications or licenses to practice it, it's not real engineering
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
>They're still hosting the videos, still running ads Please link to any example of one of Brand's youtube videos that is still running ads
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
>YT most certainly runs ads against demonetized content. It seems pretty clear that there are no in-video ads running on Brand's channel currently. People are welcome to check for themselves: https://www.youtube.com/
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
> As a diehard “asker” I can’t help but see “guessing” as narcissistic. Why would you presume you know what I want? Imagine that every time you said "no" to anything, it cost you $5. If that were the case, would you probably fi
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
the real issue here is that rental control is awful policy and leads to these kinds of bizarre market distortions abolish rent control and legalize building more housing
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by thrwy_918 3y ago
>It seems to me that the fact people are self-censoring is a problem, regardless of what their views are You really think there are no views that should be self-censored? There exist many views that I believe are not worthy of being aire
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
I can't even get Gmail to deliver my 100% genuine, properly authenticated, sent-from-my-own-domain-which-has-never-sent-spam firebase sign-in emails - and it's the same parent company! The get sent to spam or (worse) silently have
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> Flour comprised of mostly insects should say that, just like whole wheat flour is separated from pizza flour, as they contain different grain milling and grains. This seems like a fictional problem. Who is trying to pass off insect &qu
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
It's very slow when typing characters in the input field. It feels like a react application that's doing a bunch of component re-rendering on every keypress.
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> What does not depreciate however is that pesky patch of dirt under your home. That goes up and up in value because folks want to own a piece of this great blue ball and the value on that desire only goes up as population and standard o
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
I would imagine that most employers have no idea how long their take-home tests actually take, because there is a strong incentive for interviewees to lie about how long they spent on the test, and almost no incentive to be honest. Yes, you
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
Everyone I know (30something urbanites) uses meal kit services when they get an attractive sign up offer, and cancels shortly after the subsidized initial period has finished. Then after a few weeks or months they might sign up with a diffe
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
One of the promises of using hooks was that you wouldn't have to care about things being recreated every render. Gone were the days of complex update logic in lifecycle methods like `componentWillUpdate()`, `componentWillReceiveProps()
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>Moving these decisions to a state level doesn’t allow for the advocacy of a neighborhood to matter as much. That’s not good. I firmly believe that it is good. Neighborhoods shouldn't have the right to work together to exclude other
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
Can you name some of these communities?
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>Is it one Zelle link, period? I believe a single Zelle identity can only be linked to a single bank account, and a Zelle identity consists of an email address, phone number or both. Typically it's the "both" option, but I
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> Why did this use case not cross their mind when they developed it? I don't know the answer, but seeing as Zelle was developed by a consortium of big banks, it's at least possible they simply don't want to support this us
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
Zelle is also built around the idea that each identity will be connected to exactly one bank account, which is very irritating.

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