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kaistinchcombe

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    Comment #16775209

    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 fro…

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    Comment #16775167

    Depends on how you define "adoption" doesn't it?

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    Comment #16775146

    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) b…

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    Comment #16008972

    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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    Comment #15802573

    Hi everyone! https://www.truelinkfinancial.com/careers :)

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    Comment #13016130

    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 y…

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    Comment #13015308

    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…

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    Comment #13015269

    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…

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    Comment #13015137

    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 o…

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    Comment #13015122

    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 n…

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    Comment #12784186

    Garry saved my company … twice. There is nobody like this team.

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    Comment #7802360

    we have this

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    Comment #6144205

    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 call…

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    Comment #6144174

    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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    Comment #6144146

    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 t…

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    Java and rails engineer for YC S13 financial services startup - SF

    We're a current-batch YC-backed social enterprise creating a new and much-needed financial service for the elderly. Financial services companies stand to make $400b per year by ret…

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    Comment #5322437

    update should have used val() rather than text(). https://gist.github.com/kstinchcombe/5087397/ javascript: (function() { var wordCount = function() { if (!window.jQuery) { return …

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