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gmays
44,531karma·10,208submissions·November 11, 2012
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Building AI stuff.
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So...would you take the $500M or $25M/yr for 40 years?
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Great writ up. I've actually been meaning to do this for a while, but hadn't gotten around to it. I'll probably write a guide in the next few days and have a VA create variations for …
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I tried, and I even looked at hard money loans, but at the time I couldn't get any (even with an 800 credit score and never missing a payment on anything in my life). Lenders were hesitant to loa…
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Yes. I was in the military so I used the VA loan. Additionally, the house was only $140,000. I've since refinanced to a 15yr loan on that property and the rental income still covers it.
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Of the 5 homes, I have mortgages on the 2 most expensive ones (we live in one of them). The other 3 I bought more or less cash. The first condo I bought by selling most of my stock investments. Afte…
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For me it's still residential real estate. Between 2010 and 2012 or so I picked up some condos here in San Diego at short sale for about 1/3 of what their price was a few years earlier. I g…
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Great write up. This is how I built my company, Just Add Content ( http://justaddcontent.com ), all on open source. Sure, it's no Dropbox but it's doing some pretty neat things. …
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Have you seen this? http://jetpack.me/support/json-api/
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I wonder how much time and energy is wasted defending or clarifying comments, particularly by people who would otherwise be creating value.
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"Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that."
-Bill O’Reilly
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Another data point. I went to a community college (Modesto Junior College, to be specific) because my parents couldn't afford state college. I noticed that most people treated it like High Schoo…
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Sometimes how you decide to tackle the problem matters more than the size of the idea.
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Not sure. I tried the mail app, but it was too cumbersome. I just use Gmail in Safari on OS Mavericks and the Gmail app on the iPhone. On OS Mavericks it works well enough with desktop notification…
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Email. I have Gmail labels for different categories and different priorities/complexities. My goal is inbox zero, so when I finish my list I pull from the labels based on the priority, complexit…