SeanAppleby

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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
If your capital gains consistently exceeds your expenses, then you aren't net indebted to anyone. Society has more financial debt to you than vice versa at that point.
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Not quite $3k, but I paid $4500 for a 2012 Chevy Sonic a year ago with a clean title, a bit over 50k miles and no real issues. I brought it to the mechanic once for a check engine light and I had it back by lunch with a trivial fix for like
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Donor advised funds don't have a requirement on any cash outflows and charitable outcomes at any particular time, just that the funds eventually have to be allocated to charitable causes. They can also pay management fees on their capi
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
My startup went through Atlas a couple years ago when it was in beta, and it was amazing. It let us focus on actually building the business rather than screwing around with generic corporate structure and banking, and the team seemed to be
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Those two goals are only separated by about a decade of normal work, which is not even much more time than it takes to bring a startup to an exit. If you can put 1-2.5M dollars into investments you can pull safe returns of enough to live on
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Sure, publicity around early investigations in general has inevitable externalities on people who might still be innocent, but how do you think you reach a verdict without going through an investigation?
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
I have a degree in mechanical engineering and 2 years later am a software engineer pivoting into a datascience/dataengineering role after building an nlp product for our business. I only have my experience and don't know how repea
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Yeah, I don't think people are lending enough weight to how big of a deal that is. We're heading into a world where it would not be very hard to bombard the public with a large number of long form videos of highly convincing video
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
I've gone to office hours and I thought it was very useful, although I'd imagine it would vary very widely based on who you actually end up talking to, how much experience/insight they have into your sector/product/
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
Public opinion is swayed by the large volume of articles like these, and public opinion is important when you're running a high end, large scale b2c enterprise while making an emotional appeal that buying your product is something they
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by SeanAppleby 8y ago
> Asbestos can be found naturally in the air outdoors and in some drinkable water, including water from natural sources. Even nonoccupationally exposed members of the human population have tens to hundreds of thousands of asbestos fibers
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by SeanAppleby 9y ago
Yep, like hellojebus said, what you are describing sounds a lot like ripple. They use their own type of consensus algorithm described below. https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf There are also other