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How are the p2p loans doing?
They are doing good. My strategy is to invest very conservatively and for relatively short time. I am making about 7% pa.
Which site are you using if I may ask? And what is your idea of short time in this context?
I wrote a blog post about three years ago about doing single-sign-on stuff between salesforce and google by writing a google appengine app that acted as a SAML IDp. At the time, salesforce didn't speak OAUTH and google didn't natively speak SAML, so you had to do it on your own. I put it on an old blog I had laying around and turned on google adsense. To date, I've made $6.31 from that blog post alone. Someday, I'll…
Previously, as a developer evangelist with Twilio, I had to know the tech events and tech leaders in my local community. While I didn't figure out a repeatable approach then, in late 2015, it hit me. I built a bot network that reads tech events - mostly meetups, some conferences and workshops - for a given city from a variety of sources and tweets them. I use machine learning to determine hashtags, time of day to twe…
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What's wrong with renting properties? >which are wealth appropriating not wealth creating Literally everything anyone buys is paid for by a portion of their wealth, not sure what you are trying to say here.
Not sure where to start here. Are you suggesting money gained is a proxy for wealth created? It's the product of an imperfect system. Some people add more value than they are paid for, others the inverse. The system heavily favours economic rent extraction via land. Almost all new debt is issued via land. Quite simply people have figured out it's a rigged game and are piling in, hence the asset bubble and the fallout…
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You created an apps in a few hours while drunk, set the price to the lowest possible, and when you thought you had no sale after a few days, you were "devastated"?
Look. We were very emotional at the point. We thought the binary clock was a good design and the booze helped us to believe we were going to get very rich of it. ;-)
i own a decent amount of tesla stock and 2016 was a great year for lending it out. since tesla is such a controversial company, lots of people want to own the stock (expecting it to go up) and lots of people want to short sell it (expecting it go down). if you're a stock holder, certain places (like interactive brokers) will let you lend your stock holdings to people that want to sell it short. you earn a premium on…
Thank you for teaching me something new about the stock market -- I had no idea this was a thing!
Adding an optional buy button to my Chrome Extension has made me $0.59 so far, so technically that's my best. My friend has made about $650 off of his AMD investment so far though and is thinking of moving all of it into Micron.
In early 2016 I purchased commercial real estate, got a 25 year fixed rate mortgage, and leased it. This requires very little of my time every month, and the post-tax yield is above 5%. I couldn't be happier. I'm now considering doing this again in 2017. Hopefully interest rates will remain as low as they have been in order to lock-in an attractive mortgage.
> In early 2016 I purchased commercial real estate, got a 25 year fixed rate mortgage, and leased it. What was your downpayment? Asking because I tried to do the same thing earlier this year. Thought I was clever, did the math on how much I can rent out an apt on AirBnB, and what the mortgage would be on 30 year fixed, and my calcs said I need to put only 5% down to break-even. Then I contact lender and turns out, fo…