thrwy_918

>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 example of such a place?

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 dissuade people from purchasing Android devices via the green bubble system.

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 that looks like Brad Pitt and then use it in a TV commercial

> 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 - is never finished. It is a neverending ship of theseus.

I can muster motivation to try really hard on something that has an end point. But the idea of maintaining that kind of motivation and focus on a project that just goes on and on and on is, for me, near-unimaginable. You could pay me a million dollars a year and I think I would still really struggle with it. It's something I think about a lot and struggle with, because I have certainly had colleagues who seem to be able to maintain that level of craft on software projects.

>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 lose millions of dollars.

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