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by kaistinchcombe 8y ago
FWIW, my position in the world is protecting vulnerable seniors and people with special needs from fraud. So part of my view that this isn't a better recipe for trust is coming from that perspective - just imagine telling a person with
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by kaistinchcombe 8y ago
Depends on how you define "adoption" doesn't it?
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by kaistinchcombe 8y ago
People say that a lot about the internet – that nobody knew what it would be useful for at the time it was invented. It had MORE uses than originally foreseen (same as computers) but one of the internet pioneers chimed in on the comments th
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by kaistinchcombe 9y ago
Everyone would agree that right now and the US dollar is experiencing about 2% inflation, and the number of bitcoins in circulation is increasing about 4% per year, yes?
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by kaistinchcombe 9y ago
Hi everyone! https://www.truelinkfinancial.com/careers :)
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by kaistinchcombe 10y ago
Love to help you out on this if I can. The other thing to note is that because of the fear of double dealing there's a lot of stuff on the regulatory side about what kind of fees you can charge – my sense is, even saying, "any qua
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by kaistinchcombe 10y ago
Great question. It's a lot like a target date fund, but you actually want your fund a lot more personalized. E.g. a man or a woman both 70 years old today would be in the same 2015 target date fund, but she's going to live longer
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by kaistinchcombe 10y ago
RRG YES
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by kaistinchcombe 10y ago
The place this ends up sticky is that a manager with multiple clients can jointly maximize fees – e.g. instead of properly hedging a bet within each client's portfolio, you can put the bet in one client's portfolio and the hedge i
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by kaistinchcombe 10y ago
As it happens, our glide path in aggregate ends up within conventional bounds – we have a screen in the tool that compares the equity percentages to what you'd have in a Vanguard or T Rowe Price target date fund and usually it's i
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by kaistinchcombe 10y ago
Hi! Kai here from True Link. #1 lesson from the launch so far is that graph is totally incomprehensible! We love it here in the office but it's going to be totally re-done in the next release. That graph is how your money is invested
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by kaistinchcombe 10y ago
Garry saved my company … twice. There is nobody like this team.
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by kaistinchcombe 12y ago
we have this
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by kaistinchcombe 13y ago
Yeah, I've heard rumors that lot of those blacklists are shakedown operations. We're following our customers' lead on which transactions are unwanted -- if we're getting phone calls where people are saying (e.g.) that th
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by kaistinchcombe 13y ago
Haha, thanks for that. Well taken. The goal is to make sure we've provided the value we promised before we bill you for it.
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by kaistinchcombe 13y ago
Kai here. Well put, absolutely right. My grandma has gotten scammed three times a day on average every day for ten years and obviously it's something that I'm passionate about. I think it's just really low to make a living by
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Java and rails engineer for YC S13 financial services startup - SF
1 points by kaistinchcombe 13y ago
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by kaistinchcombe 14y ago
update should have used val() rather than text(). https://gist.github.com/kstinchcombe/5087397/ javascript: (function() { var wordCount = function() { if (!window.jQuery) { return setTimeout(wordCount, 100); } var $ = jQuery; $('.wc').rem
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Bookmarklet for word counts on your YC application
3 points by kaistinchcombe 14y ago|2 comments