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by jjmaxwell4 2y ago
Why trust us? 1. We're working with Apex Clearing, a large US Custodian with more than $100B of assets. Your account is in your name there. 2. We're well funded and backed by reputable investors (YC, Matrix, Youtube Cofounder, and
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by jjmaxwell4 2y ago
Oh for sure, we just plan on showing a banner if the IP is non US. You can still fill out the application if your IP is non US.
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by jjmaxwell4 2y ago
We're working on backtesting our specific version of TLH over the past 10 or 20 years, which mean I unfortunately can't comment on that yet. For reference, other TLH providers generally claim 1-2% increase in after tax returns. h
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by jjmaxwell4 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback, we will try and make this more clear for Non US IPs.
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Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index
178 points by jjmaxwell4 2y ago|97 comments
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Your right you gotta be dedicated, I just think some of this dedication erodes as you evolve into your mid-20's. People settle and get a little less hungry.
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Can't things change quite a bit between these years? When your in school, you're broke. Its not weird to eat ramen and work all the time. But by the time your 22, maybe you got an internship at a cool company, and they're offering you 80k a
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Your right, its not the least prestigious, but its nowhere near most other large universities in terms of clout (except within CS/the tech scene).
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
I think the tech/startup industry has a large affect on a lot of people's thinking, especially at a young (high-schoolish) age. The startup ideas pushed by pg, and the success that people like Zuckerburg and Jobs have had, have shown that s
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Reducing costs can often be accomplished through scale, efficiency, improved logistical delivery. Its not always about reducing wages.
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
By taking a beat up car worth $200, and buying some parts for $400, and fixing it up and selling it for $1500, you just created $900 for yourself. This is growing the pie. The is not a set amount of wealth in the world. Think about the crea
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Ya, it seems to me that pg was talking more about the tone/type of comment and HN then anything else.
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
> this responsibility is fulfilled only by sacrifice and discomfort. The highly educated do not owe society anything. No one should have a right to my intelligence. If I want to contribute, I can and will, and if I'm smart enough and ex
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Right. People will adapt given the right incentives, just as textile workers did when the weave was invented.
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
>arguing from historical trends is a weak form of argument. Not really, since this exact argument was previously made in the 1800's by textile workers. We can learn from that for sure. Humans are very complicated, but it is reasonable t
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
PG brought the most important defense against this argument the last time an article like this got posted. Why this time? Technology, including automation, has been around for the past 60 years, but we have only gotten richer. When the decl
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Ya I know. I meant hacked as in regular drivers randomly broadcasting signals saying traffic jam ahead. Obviously it can be hacked, but it will have to be a lot more sophisticated then that.
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
I thought the article was just saying that the cars will broadcast their speed. In this way cars will know if they are slowing down ahead of them, and it will be built in, so it won't be easily hackable like you described. Things like this
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
There not just another run of the mill coupon site. Check out what there actually doing. Aggregating all of that info, much like Hipmunk has done for airlines, and providing only stuff that is interesting/useful for you.
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
I think the most important advancements in history were done with a Long Grind before a huge success. Einstein worked away in mediocrity, living what to most people must have looked like a sub-par life on the surface. He toiled away on his
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Steve Jobs, World's Greatest Philanthropist(blogs.hbr.org)
2 points by jjmaxwell4 15y ago|0 comments
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
> Living vicariously is the essence of being human. I think this is the exact point the author is trying to disprove. The articles isn't saying that all viewing activities are bad, in fact he point out the "high-horse-ness" of people wh
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Software is incredibly powerful, but it the robotic revolution is still coming. Obviously software cannot explicitly deal with physical objects as easily as a robot can. I mean, you can have software that will find you the cheapest maid ser
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
> What people think of you DOES matter. If you believe that what you are doing is good for the world, should it matter what people think of you? I bet a lot of people think that Gregory Maxwell or Aaron Swartz are criminals. I think tha
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
> Just don't give a hoot what people say about you. I think that is a very good trait that nearly no one possesses.
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
I think this can be boiled down to "have self confidence, don't flake, be nice". Reputations are built over a lifetime.
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Being a liberitarian, I don't ever think the solution is to regulate; especially in this AirBnB case, where it is a mutual agreement between two people. Its different then driving, because only one of these two people can be hurt by the agr
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Google vs. Aurora Borealis(news.nationalpost.com)
1 points by jjmaxwell4 15y ago|0 comments
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
What about all of the good that AirBnB does for the large majority of people who use the site? Is there a deep ethical problem with letting people supplement their income, while also letting travellers have a cheaper option for a night/week
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by jjmaxwell4 15y ago
Ideas are cheap. Execution is the hard part. Startups take devotion; and you don't get devotion with a bunch of random people collaborating on the web. Quirky could create some tiny gadgets that fill tiny needs, but this will never create a

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