Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: House prices and the "Magic Money", in reply to
Kia ora. Thank you for popping by.
Indeed. And thanks also to David for participating so usefully in the discussion of his post. Y'all are good.
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Authority X said it was supply constriction due to RMA restriction. I am sure they did.
It's surprising how often this is offered as a received truth.
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Speaker: House prices and the "Magic Money", in reply to
This is why I don’t think supply-side solutions are going to do much – the supply-side solutions are couched in terms of supplying the demand from local people, but we have no idea how big the supply would need to grow to deal with the demand from sources invisible to the New Zealand economy.
Totally agree. We also have no idea how this demand could change over time. It could treble over a year due to some policy change in any one of the very large countries in the world.
Yes, this occurred to me after David posted the first of this stuff in comments on earlier posts: what nature of demand are we even planning for?
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Hard News: Deep Dream: Looking at clouds, in reply to
it treats all input fields as potential dogging sites.
I see what you did there.
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Hard News: Deep Dream: Looking at clouds, in reply to
Anyway, Phil Clairmont was all over this decades ago…
Good point!
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Hard News: Deep Dream: Looking at clouds, in reply to
So this is what porn images look like through mostly animal-trained networks; what I haven’t seen yet is a porn-trained network looking at non-porn pics. Cocks everywhere!
Shit, I hadn't thought of that. That would be even weirder ...
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Hard News: Deep Dream: Looking at clouds, in reply to
Tiger (original pic by Ali Little) in one of the less dog-prone models.
Gee, that's nice.
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And yes, people are Deep Dreaming videos ...
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Polity: Too much to swallow on the TPP, in reply to
That’s okay! It’s only “a little bit longer”.
If we’ve been rolled on re-patenting, I’m told it’s an additional seven years that Pharmac can’t access a generic.
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Polity: Too much to swallow on the TPP, in reply to
My understanding is that trade agreements don’t have to be ratified by Parliament. So talk of votes and how they stack up is moot.
You are correct.
But Parliament would have to pass changes likely to be required to existing legislation, such as the Copyright Act.
NB: From that link above, Steven Joyce dodging a Parliamentary question on Pharmac losing access to generics, two years ago. They knew it was coming.
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