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wesleyy

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    Comment #27723002

    Rent seeking refers to economic rent, which is not the same thing as "housing rent". It has a very specific definition when used in the context of economic rent seeking. Renting ou…

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    Comment #27200761

    No, that's what the lightfield does. You see different physical images depending on your angle to the screen

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    Comment #24948983

    How does any kind of fine for PG&E not end up being a regressive tax? As long as they are the only supplier in NorCal the costs will just be passed on to all NorCal residents.

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    Comment #24935205

    > That would work if, like golang, bazel was the "default" package manager for everyone. Right now it's not easy to get, for example, vulkan or muslc or qt as a bazel package. I ag…

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    Comment #24925694

    Github is already a bazel package management system though? If the package is a bazel workspace all you need to do is add a http_archive rule pointing to that github repo

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    Comment #24645273

    The point is that there is no idle fee. The legislation just states the minimum required wage for time and miles spent with a passenger, as well as a $5/trip minimum.

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    Comment #23824198

    > While stocks may have some intrinsic value, it is commonly acknowledged that their value as assets is substantially lower than their stock market price. Moreover companies contin…

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    Comment #17529320

    I don't think Google's implementation of their hermetic par files are open source.

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    Comment #13163418

    interesting how University of Waterloo was never mentioned given its heavy ties with YC, and that it was his main university.

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    Comment #12633296

    I would love to apply for an internship position but my god is that career site awful. Mid-way through applying it just does nothing but returns "Error You have encountered a syste…

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    Comment #11393107

    Most likely the latter

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    Comment #11024766

    Do you have any sources? Not trying to be a dick but this sounds interesting.

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    Comment #11002964

    Mining on earth is basically free compared to what it would cost to mine on other planets.

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    Comment #10944829

    I think you kind of answered it yourself. Microchip probably offered a higher portion of the deal in cash and atmel shareholders find the cash to be worth more than dialog stock.

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    Comment #10783977

    What's the advantage of Q over pdb?

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    Comment #10647546

    Kik, Ted Livingston, University of Waterloo

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    Comment #10599156

    basically a marketplace for developers to sell products. I think they started with themeforest which basically website templates/wordpress themes, now they have tons of other sites…

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    Comment #10574546

    that's interesting...

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    Comment #10569010

    Does nobody ever have to use google to look something up? Something as simple as sickness symptoms or how to make bread or whether it's going to rain on Saturday? Surely these woul…

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    Comment #10424619

    I'm still not convinced. AR through visual SLAM is not extremely difficult. All the demos here are indoor and from the occlusion handling for the first scene (0:13) you can see a s…

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    Comment #10424587

    I'd imagine it'd be the same reasons as to why a TV or projected screen looks great in real life but terrible when it's through a camera.

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    Comment #10315748

    your link to spire.com is messed up

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    Comment #10308595

    that assumes you actually have 300k at 22 though; whereas most people need to take out interest free loans to afford the 300k

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    Comment #10107993

    https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/