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by whitej125 3y ago
Wish there was a way to extend voice commands in the car... my own "Alexa skills" but for Tesla so to speak. Even if the only output could be a tweet sized text box. I would ask questions like... "what streets around here ha
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by whitej125 3y ago
> If you raise VC money, the above scenarios are considered a failure. You will have to shutdown/get acquired for nothing. You have to shoot for the moon to get massive ARR, that very very few companies ever hit. N=1 example at leas
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by whitej125 3y ago
Very nostalgic to see the recent DEC/digital talk on HN lately. My first job out of college I wrote C++ on OpenVMS (originally on Alpha). I remember when we had to port to OpenVMS Itanium. Biggest pita was floating point conversion.
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by whitej125 3y ago
We use DocuSign here and the amount of time I spend hopping back and forth (exporting and importing) between Google and DocuSign is annoyingly high. If Google were to enter this space... I would personally welcome it.
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by whitej125 3y ago
Hey - one of the founders here. Great question! Wrt/ audience there are a lot of dimensions so to highlight some: * self-directed (vs fully managed) * values diversification (vs concentrated positions) * longer term buy-n-hold (vs yol
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by whitej125 3y ago
I'm in this camp and looking into DIY. I'm in MA. I get installers stopping by all the time because I have great roof space... but the orientation is horrible for solar so it ends up being a super expensive system that is losing
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by whitej125 3y ago
Pebble Finance | Cambridge, MA | https://pebble.finance Seed stage fintech (B2B2C) turning ideas/observations from retail investors into individualized "ETFs". Looking for one more experienced NLP/ML engineer
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by whitej125 3y ago
Tangent: For the first 10 seconds of this video I thought it was computer generated (and that was the reason this was posted on HN). The inflection in the voice just didn't match the expression on the face or the body movements (lack
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by whitej125 3y ago
I grew up on pinball. My dad would buy/fix/sell pinball machines and jukeboxes as a side hobby - and of course we'd keep some for ourselves. I absolutely LOVED learning how these machines worked. Being able to go from a be
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by whitej125 3y ago
I figured these Hyundai/Kia thefts using a USB cable was some techy issue... like there was a auto technicians USB port that would disable car security if it has something plugged into it. No. After 5 minutes of searching you see that
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by whitej125 3y ago
Pebble Finance | Cambridge, MA | https://pebble.finance Seed stage fintech (B2B2C) turning ideas/observations from retail investors into individualized "ETFs". Looking for one more experienced NLP/ML enginee
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by whitej125 4y ago
Pebble Finance | Cambridge, MA | https://pebble.finance We're making investing easier for retail investors like you and me by teaching machines to bridge the gap between how markets work and how people think/speak. Add
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by whitej125 4y ago
My son responds super well to gamified learning. What I found is that there are plentiful options when it comes to math... but not as much so when it comes to reading. When he was in kindergarten during the disrupted school year of 2020&#x
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by whitej125 4y ago
Did you have to break a seal on the meter to get to the meter disconnect? If so, what are the implications of that?
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by whitej125 4y ago
With their powers combined... (Microsoft's text-to-speech models) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34309306
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by whitej125 4y ago
Pebble Finance | Cambridge, MA | https://pebble.finance We're making it easier, safer and more personal for everyone to participate in financial markets by teaching machines to bridge the gap. Adding two experienced enginee
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by whitej125 4y ago
Pebble Finance | Cambridge, MA | https://pebble.finance We're making index investing customizable for the masses. Now you can be safely diversified and still express your individuality. Adding two experienced engineers (ML
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by whitej125 4y ago
It's the "Johnny Cab" from Total Recall! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY
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by whitej125 4y ago
Last spring a neighbor of mine (researcher/professor) was talking about how one of his students stumbled upon one of these SBF foundations and that prompted them to apply. The application process was a Google Form and within a few day
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by whitej125 4y ago
Everyone's reasons are their own. For me personally there are some reasons that are more utilitarian in nature... and some reasons that are value driven. I removed Tesla because it entered the S&P 500 after a huge run up. I own t
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by whitej125 4y ago
Actually I’ve been doing just this for just over a year. Took TSLA, FB/META and a few others over time out of the S&P 500. https://pebble.finance/p/f7dc6d732363464487ca5a84a00ce24a Note: I’m one of the founde
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by whitej125 4y ago
Mortgage rates will change more quickly than housing prices. Mortgage rates are a function of the Fed, Treasury Rates and tons of banks/lenders across the nation. National scale influenced, sure, in part by national demand for mortga
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by whitej125 4y ago
For me, the best source of seed investor introductions (relevant firm and getting to the partner directly) was from other founders. And the best source of getting introductions to founders was, ironically, from seed investors. Even having
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by whitej125 4y ago
We just closed a seed a few weeks ago. At least in my experience... "new deals on hold while taking care of their existing portfolio companies" never came up. Honestly I don't even think things like the massive tech re-valu
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by whitej125 4y ago
Pebble Finance | Boston, MA | Full-time | Remote but proximal to Boston/Cambridge Fintech creating personalized ETFs - copy any ETF and make your edits. Passive investing with an active voice. Building the seed team - mostly Eng and f
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by whitej125 5y ago
She was captured in Argentina attempting to steal Iguazu Falls [0]. Fortunately a couple of super sleuths [1] were tipped off about the soon-to-be caper by none other than Dr. Brain [2]. I miss the educational games of the 90s. [0] https:
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by whitej125 5y ago
>> Because fear. What's funny is... whenever you call an FA (financial advisor) in a moment of panic... they answer always is "don't act emotionally and stick to the plan". Maybe a real "robo-advisor" sh
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by whitej125 5y ago
Wealthfront (and this goes for the rest of Wall Street) are analog businesses. They thrive on mass producing a fixed set of products. Those products are ETFs, Mutual Funds... or in Wealthfront's case... a rebalancing strategy based on
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by whitej125 5y ago
I direct index... but I don't tax-loss-harvest the index which is what your are describing here (just noting that you can direct index and not do TLH if you want to).
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by whitej125 5y ago
The wash sale rule has teeth. Currently, trades on a stock or direct derivative (options tied to that stock) will all trigger the wash sale rule. I have never seen an ETF of a single security. Got an example? It would be hard for me to fa

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