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>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 p…

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 reason…

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

>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 th…

> 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?

what percentage of users would you estimate are interested in choosing or writing a user style sheet?

"top 10 shareholders" is quite a specific class of shareholders

>since you can never get rid of it if you're an actual believer in NFTs, isn't that kind of the point?

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)

> The whole point of laptops is portability. Many people want portability, but also want to use external displays at home or at the office .

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 - i…

>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 "…

if you don't have to have any qualifications, certifications or licenses to practice it, it's not real engineering

>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

>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 …

> 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 $…

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

>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 exi…

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 comp…

> 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 …

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.

> 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…

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…

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…