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kitcar
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There has actually been a massive amount of high rise development - its just questionable if the "type" of high rise inventory coming online is inline with the type of places people want to love. The bigger issue is a non signific
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Meet the first car sold in America to use gasoline, electricity, and solar power
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kitcar
10y ago
Last I heard their niche was they resell adspace on websites that Google Adsense et all refuse to do business with for one reason or another
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U.S. to auction US$1.6M worth of Bitcoin from various cases
(business.financialpost.com)
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Unyte Health Inc Industry: Gaming, Health & Wellness Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Onsite or Remote in special cases) We are a "meditation technology" company. We were one of the first companies to produce Biofeedback ha
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kitcar
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What you read likely has to do with multi-individual/family focused dwellings. Toronto is currently overbuilt for single bed rooms, but under-built for units suitable for families. Anyways, as far as what to do - Patience. Most people
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10y ago
1) Extremely low interest rates combined with government backed mortgages (CMHC) means lots of people now have mortgages they will be unable to carry if interests rates rise by 1% (as that would be a 50% increase in their interest payments.
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11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
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kitcar
11y ago
Correct, the interface between the phone and the headset is the charge port, but there is an additional port on the Gear VR itself to allow for charging while being used. The original Gear VR ("Innovator edition") could not be cha
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For first time, drone delivers package to residential area
(phys.org)
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Stax: Maths Toy for Kids
(kickstarter.com)
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11y ago
What you're describing is similar to the approach south Florida takes - assume many purchasers are non-residents, and therefore rely on property taxes rather than income taxes to fill the coffer https://southfloridaforbeginn
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kitcar
11y ago
This might do well on thinkgeek or similar, sold as a coffee table book
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kitcar
11y ago
Flat tax (versus the globally-preferred progressive/graduated tax) as a way to stimulate economic growth
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Inside the Hidden World That Handles Your Holiday Returns
(wired.com)
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11y ago
True - short-term cashflow requirements increased by 13% is more accurate, due to the delay in getting the HST rebate cheque
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11y ago
To make matters even more complex, Netsweeper appears to have received subsidies / grants from the federal government of Canada ( see http://www.giantgoat.com/blog/2010/03/guelph-partnership-for... )
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If your goal is to have ecstatically happy customers, you may want to begin thinking about your customer service channels as wherever your customers want to talk to you, versus where you want to talk to them. I know its a lot of work /
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kitcar
11y ago
Just a guess, but they project the cost of large scale GPU manufacturing to decline faster than ASIC due to the shared applications of gaming/VR?
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Minecraft: Working Cell Phone with Web Browser and Video Calling
(youtube.com)
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Fed ends 'too big to fail' lending to collapsing banks
(money.cnn.com)
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11y ago
Also see Creativas - http://www.theCreativas.com / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv51Fxr68ic . (Disclosure: I worked on this)
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For what its worth, a billionaire once told me the following quote: There are two types of people that give money to charity - those that want to, and those that have to (the context of the conversation was the idea of charity as atonement
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11y ago
I believe the use case is when you don't have the alternative of a TV, i.e. Airplane, Train, etc... not ideal for streaming content though.
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Don't forget you're using a Dev Kit which is basically 2 years old - personally, although I agree with your DK2 assessment, I am reserving judgement for the consumer version.
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Lexus Hoverboard: The Science
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Can't use just look at the http response to get the image size in KB, and ignores the images below a certain size, or alternatively just grab the first few bytes of the image, enough to extract the format header (which I believe carrie
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11y ago
Once a stock is trading on the stock market, buying the products of a company is a better way to support them then buying their stock IMHO. When you buy Tesla stock on the stock market Tesla gets no money from you - you are actually buying
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On a related topic, can anyone point me to articles / research related to how bubbles continue to inflate during recessionary periods? From my uninformed/simplistic viewpoint it seems like the two are opposing concepts (i.e. poppe
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11y ago
Online dating is a mature industry with lots of M&A and therefore historical multiples -
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