wesleyy

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by wesleyy 5y ago
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 out houses for people to live in is not rent seeking
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by wesleyy 5y ago
No, that's what the lightfield does. You see different physical images depending on your angle to the screen
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by wesleyy 6y ago
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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by wesleyy 6y ago
> 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 agree, but I don't think a "Bazel
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by wesleyy 6y ago
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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by wesleyy 6y ago
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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by wesleyy 6y ago
> 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 continue to buy their own stocks further reducing the value of
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by wesleyy 8y ago
I don't think Google's implementation of their hermetic par files are open source.
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by wesleyy 10y ago
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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by wesleyy 10y ago
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 system error. We apologize for the inconvenience."
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by wesleyy 10y ago
Most likely the latter
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by wesleyy 11y ago
Do you have any sources? Not trying to be a dick but this sounds interesting.
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by wesleyy 11y ago
Mining on earth is basically free compared to what it would cost to mine on other planets.
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by wesleyy 11y ago
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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by wesleyy 11y ago
What's the advantage of Q over pdb?
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by wesleyy 11y ago
Kik, Ted Livingston, University of Waterloo
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by wesleyy 11y ago
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 which include things like sound effects, stock video,
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by wesleyy 11y ago
that's interesting...
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by wesleyy 11y ago
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 would require net neutrality and won't be all covered
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by wesleyy 11y ago
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 slight shadow on the right of the table leg so I assume
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by wesleyy 11y ago
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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by wesleyy 11y ago
your link to spire.com is messed up
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by wesleyy 11y ago
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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by wesleyy 11y ago
https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/
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by wesleyy 11y ago
it's not without good reason. there's no point in over engineering something when a simpler design can do the trick.
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by wesleyy 11y ago
it's in the faq, you have to pay taxes if your team is not incorporated.
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by wesleyy 11y ago
Did you mean by leaving time rather than "by not leaving time"?
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by wesleyy 11y ago
Has there ever been a college dropout article in the past 3 years that didn't involve Dave Fontenot?
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by wesleyy 11y ago
I think everyone is overlooking a major benefit that the co-op program brings, to the school as a whole. I feel the co-op program at Waterloo is responsible for the awesome entrepreneurship/startup culture that I don't think exist
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by wesleyy 11y ago
'“We are a Left-wing government. If we have to choose between a default to the IMF or a default to our own people, it is a no-brainer,” said a senior official.' Wow, what an incredibly entitled attitude to hold.

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