brianfitz

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by brianfitz 1y ago
I have: 1. Lost a pair 2. Lost one bud from a pair 3. Washed them 4. Swam in the ocean with them 5. Had a pair generally degrade So I know once I buy a pair, I'm good for about a year until I need another. That's also when I tend
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by brianfitz 2y ago
Flipboard. https://about.flipboard.com/
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by brianfitz 3y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire
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by brianfitz 3y ago
Great work and as a product guy, I find the preview environments feature explained on your website to be a potential game changer. Being able to spin up and seed environments on demand via pull requests keeps things very clean as I could ju
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by brianfitz 4y ago
We needed a tool that gave us the same experience as Heroku but on AWS, so we went with Nullstone ( https://nullstone.io ). Everything is nicely managed in a style you'll be familiar with and takes advantage of open source Te
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by brianfitz 5y ago
I believe he was using the source article. One example was a leap in public polling around how our government functions (33% jump in being able to identify the three branches of the US federal government).
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Application Infrastructure: Launching a Technology Startup(nullstone.io)
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by brianfitz 5y ago
Also highly recommend the book “The Phoenix Project”. It highlights common pitfalls and solutions through a narrative of a character thrown into their first time leading a team.
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by brianfitz 5y ago
So we’ve created one loophole. What if I buy multiple properties below the threshold? Is the limit per household? If so, does this apply to people heavily leveraged with little net worth who own many rental properties? The rent is income, b
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by brianfitz 5y ago
The special treatment is at the time of sale. My comments were in response to taxing the appreciation at the time of a new loan (such as taking a second mortgage).
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by brianfitz 5y ago
This would also affect most home owners. They purchase a home, it goes up in value, and they refinance or take a second loan rather than sell the property. The wealthy do this as well with property, art, and securities. Trying to tax unreal
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by brianfitz 7y ago
Yes, but the idea is to set controlled fires to prevent these larger uncontrolled ones. It not only requires regular controlled fires, but when they are performed, for how long, and where are all critical. The remaining factor is you have t
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by brianfitz 7y ago
I remember a friend talking about how he didn't take Youtube options for some consulting work he did for them in their very early days. This was almost exactly 10 years ago and his comment was that he could have wallpapered his entire
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by brianfitz 7y ago
Markets will factor in all known information ahead of a fine such as this — the possibility that it’s coming and some guess at the size and impact. In doing so, this would depress the price of the stock leading up to any news. Let’s assume
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by brianfitz 7y ago
TL;DR - The money available to any one company is small (hundreds of thousands) which means it could only ever be a supplement. Since they are very difficult to apply for, it could be argued you’re just better off to spend time raising mone
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by brianfitz 8y ago
Wheeler’s delayed choice excitement is referred to as a thought expirement both by the physicists in the article as well as the first line in its Wikipedia entry. Like Einstein, he worked through many thought excitements that suggested an o
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by brianfitz 8y ago
TL;DR: There was a loophole found in an older thought experiment that indicated that at the quantum level, nothing is real until it is observed. A discovery was recently made that found a way to add an unknown variable into the mix such tha
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by brianfitz 8y ago
I remember reading this when it was originally posted years ago and have had time to think about the implications. I am just over 40, so most of my class reunions were organized through Facebook and was amazed at the turn-out possible becau
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by brianfitz 9y ago
Allan who also responded is fairly inline with the answer to this -- except one key point: the company can write whatever they want into the contract regarding recourse, but the IRS will only recognize the loan as legit for tax purposes if
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by brianfitz 9y ago
They likely were giving her additional grants later in the life of the company upon reaching certain milestones to make up for her dilution at a strike price that required millions of dollars to exercise. You can get away with founder stock
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by brianfitz 9y ago
We can agree to disagree. As a two time founder, I had to go through a lot of discusssions with our legal and even my own to grasp the upsides and downsides of what Elizabeth did by trading risk against a lower future tax liability. My take
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by brianfitz 9y ago
As stated before, it doesn't work that way. Google the horror stories on those who have excercised options (and held the stock) on a liquidity event who had to pay taxes on gains that existed at the time of the transaction, but later d
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by brianfitz 9y ago
That might seem like the common sense answer, but is the danger in exercising options and holding them. In this case, the previous poster was correct -- once they forgive the loan, the $25 million becomes taxable income. The reason it doesn
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by brianfitz 9y ago
It's done in order to start the clock early for capital gains. If you excercise shares at the same time you sell them, that transaction is treated as regular income. If you excercise the shares early by purchasing them, then they can b
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by brianfitz 10y ago
Rate of return goes hand in hand with risk. The man in the article took greater risk and, because successful, became a multi-millionaire. There is success bias built into this because while a large percentage of millionaires are entrepreneu
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by brianfitz 10y ago
Simply targeting the higher end market doesn't tell you anything about the margins of the business. You need to know the size of each segment of the market and then what can be done to increase margins in each segment. For Tesla, they
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by brianfitz 10y ago
Accredited investors only? If so, even lowering the floor to $10k might not help the OP (geared toward helping swanson with the details rather than any kind of suggestion). Edit: and Kapil has answered :-)
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by brianfitz 10y ago
She can't reveal the patients to them, so Facebook wouldn't be in a position to give a specific reason -- only generically how the algorithm is calculated.
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by brianfitz 10y ago
Because those companies will hire from the population living in those cities. English is the international language of business, so all things being equal, you'd choose a population that is fluent in English as a second language.
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by brianfitz 11y ago
Dan, I'll chime in. I don't know your circumstances, but when I read a critique like this my first question is always "where has the person travelled?". It's very difficult to spend time in places devoid of capitali

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