kinghajj

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by kinghajj 5y ago
Investopedia, Bogleheads, and Nerdwallet are all great resources to learn about investing. I began investing after graduating and landing my first full-time job. At first, I used a fairly cookie-cutter "three-fund portfolio," as r
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by kinghajj 5y ago
I unironically have an RPN calculator app on my phone. I find it easier to use than a regular calculator.
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by kinghajj 5y ago
While driving on Oak in SF last weekend, I saw a man get out of a car, run to an open parked Uhaul truck, grab something, then take off. Right as he left, the (presumed) owner of the stolen articles came out of the house, put his hands up,
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by kinghajj 5y ago
Wait, there was a 32-bit version of MS-DOS? Or did the 16-bit version have some support for running 32-bit programs?
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by kinghajj 5y ago
For long-term capital gains above $1m, yes. I'm not lucky enough (yet?) for that to apply to me this year anyway. Plus, that change would probably apply from 2022 onwards, so there's a chance that if another crypto bull run happen
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by kinghajj 5y ago
Especially for us old-timers; gotta love that long-term capital gains tax rate! Set aside some of the gains into a high-yield savings account for making estimated tax payments, pay off some small debts, buy a couple nice things, and put the
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by kinghajj 5y ago
Would you mind elaborating on why you dislike ETFs? From my point of view, they provide retail trades the opportunity easily to allocate a portfolio among various sectors. Does your dislike of ETFs extend to "old-school" mutual fu
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by kinghajj 5y ago
Additionally, BlockFi pays 8.6% APY on stablecoins. If you have any BTC, ETH, or LTC, they'll pay interest on those as well. Normally interest is paid in like-kind (e.g. a BTC balance generates BTC interest), but with the Flex option,
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by kinghajj 5y ago
Should have used Scylla.
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> Miners technically do have seigniorage authority since they can collectively decide to change the underlying cryptocurrency. The failure of the Bitcoin2x proposal and adoption of Segwit in 2017 demonstrated that miners do not have as
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by kinghajj 5y ago
I think the idea is that mining Bitcoin can offset installation costs, thereby making it cheaper to install more energy storage, which would help make intermittent energy sources like solar/wind act more like a baseload provider?
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by kinghajj 6y ago
Isn't that just called a dividend? Or are you suggesting that shareholders owe tax liability for all earned corporate profits, regardless whether any of that is paid to them as a dividend?
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"Two things keep the IRS’ hands out of most people's candy dish: the $15,000 annual exclusion in 2020 and 2021, and the $11.58 million lifetime exclusion in 2020 ($11.7 million in 2021). Stay below those and you can be generous un
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by kinghajj 6y ago
Thank you.
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https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share Last I checked, ~4% is greater than <1%. Edit: It seemed pretty clear to me that, in the context of web browser usage , wmf was referring to GNU/Linux desktop usage, not s
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by kinghajj 6y ago
Because, simply, it's not true. I'm curious though what attack vector you're thinking of, especially one that's not related to quantum computers. Are you worried that the ECDSA public-key cryptosystem employed by Bitcoin
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Bitcoin wallets don't use RSA, but ECDSA.
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As for "why," your guess is as good as mine. The entire design of the Model 3 eschews buttons in favor of the screen interface, so this likely is another example of that. In practice, I usually ask passengers before we start drivi
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by kinghajj 6y ago
> If you want to enable seat heating on the back seats? It’s about 3 clicks in which is bad. IIRC, you can use voice commands for that particular case. "Turn on the right rear seat heater." There's definitely other use cas
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by kinghajj 6y ago
PoW uses energy consumption for security. PoS uses staking for security. Every analysis I've seen agrees that PoW is more secure than PoS, precisely because of the energy requirements. Those who favor PoS argue that it's still sec
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There are places to buy bitcoin without KYC enforcement: Localbitcoins still exists; I'm sure there's some dark web site to coordinate in-person OTC trades.
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PoS isn't as secure as PoW, though. I'd imagine the majority of BTC nodes would reject updating to a fork that removed PoW.
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It is, yes. Curiously though, making the work "useful" might actually harm the security of a block chain and make it more likely to suffer a 51% attack. With a chain like Bitcoin's, if you want to perform a 51% attack, you wo
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"With Bitcoin, a private key, picked at random, is run through these algorithms to generate a public key. And the Bitcoin protocol uses the hash value of this to create a public Bitcoin address. A quantum computer could reverse this pr
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by kinghajj 6y ago
It's exciting to think that another $1T+ could be added before the end of the year! The real question, though, is where will things settle once the current bull run stops?
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by kinghajj 6y ago
1. Central banks (at least, the US Fed) doesn't have the authority to declare crypto tokens illegal unilaterally. 2. EO 6102 made sense with the gold standard. It wasn't just an "FU" to gold hoarders, but a way to raise
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by kinghajj 6y ago
> On the other end of the risk scale I buy a couple Powerball tickets each time it goes over 500M$ Buying cheap OTM calls every once in a while would probably have a higher chance of profit.
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Well, sure, no asset will track inflation in any particular country with a perfect correlation, but the markets are pretty good at minimizing arbitrage. I'm sure Venezuelan holders of gold or cryptocurrencies appreciate its use as a he
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The original poster was being pedantic in distinguishing between "Making transactions, relaying them, validating them" and "block production" (mining). So they are technically correct, but I'd agree that they&#x27
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No, mining will continue as usual even after the block reward drops to 0. At that point, miners will only receive transaction fees, and not transaction fees + the block reward as they do currently.

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