Readit NewsAs for moving to a cheaper place… their jobs are in the city. That’s why they live there to begin with.
Have you missed the inflation crises? Have you missed the absolute fleecing of the middle class due to stagnant wages? Have you missed the student debt crisis? Have you missed the disinvestment in black and brown communities? Have you missed the ramshackle, near collapse of public transit and other infrastructure? Have you missed the teacher/police/fire/EMT/911 operator shortage? Have you missed the homelessnesss/housing crises?
What city have you been living in?
MDMA can reset your dopamine baseline much lower. That is, after you come down, you may feel depressed, and it may be hard to climb out of that depression for a while.
Use caution please.
Someone's vocal characteristics are not meaningfully creative; it's the intellectual content of a work and specific instance of a performance of an artist's skill in singing or writing or drawing or fabricating that content, that makes the result copyrightable. Therefore, it seems like it's a stretch to think voice-mimicking AI works might be copyrightable by the mimicked artists.
You can't sue someone for mimicking someone else's voice well enough to be confused for the mimicked creator's voice. Some people can do some voices quite well. AI can just do it better, faster.
I hope the courts put a swift end to this, but maybe they'll try to uphold the status quo—entertainment megacorps get what they want—and only reverse course after a few years when it becomes clear that everyone's mimicking everyone else's voices and pictures for fun and profit and any attempt to maintain copyright or any other IP protection on such mimicry is absurd.
Oh you most certainly can. In fact, you can sue someone for sounding too much like himself. Just ask John Fogerty.
So $4m a year?
>The Adopted Budget is budgeted at $130,587,325 and is funded by $130,244,157 in revenue.
So taxpayers are “missing out” on 3% of their budget in exchange for 65% of 1% of Apple’s online sales in California. How much does the city get in return for this deal? And, wouldn’t Apple just choose somewhere else to direct the funds otherwise?
Apple has to choose where to allocate the tax funds. That’s the law. That Cupertino offered the best deal for them is a quirk of the law, not a shady deal by Apple. As well: their headquarters are located there. It’s not like they shopped around for the best kickback deal by allocating it to some little town on the coast.
> Cupertino is facing a 73% reduction in local tax revenue. California is taking issue with the agreement and examining the extent to which the California purchases attributed to Cupertino are proper.
Err, what? There’s some math here there doesn’t add up. Did the article mean to say that Apple has contributed $107m per year since 1998 — so $2.6b? If so, Cupertino is facing a 96% reduction not 73%.
I must be missing something here. Could someone point me in the direction of the right math?
This is not the reason. Post WW II Europe was able to rebuild and for a long time they had some of the biggest companies and for a long time EU as a whole was a bigger economy than the US. It's only in the last 2 decades where the US is significantly outpacing the EU. And there are no signs of slow down.
WW II can not be the reason EU has few big tech companies. (relatively compared to the US, few exceptions always exist)
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.
That’s about $187B in 2022 dollars. In addition to technology and trade.
… followed shortly after Breton Woods, which secured trade for the rest of the world in exchange for not joining up with the Soviets.
These stores would onboard Facebook and other big apps, but regular solo dev will have to submit each app to a dozen of different stores and comply with a dozen of different requirements and review processes or pass on user share to some local dev who copies the idea quickly enough.
But I also share that concern. It’s one reason I don’t use android as a daily driver.