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by anato
Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:08 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Winkelvoss Capital says Bitcoin is a 10x better inflation hedge than gold
Replies: 48
Views: 15889

Re: Winkelvoss Capital says Bitcoin is a 10x better inflation hedge than gold

What about the downside of complete traceability of every single transaction that has ever happened and will ever happen? That sounds like the wet dream of any government. Is the anonymity guaranteed just by the fact that nobody knows it's me who has generated *this* private key? Nowadays with big d...
by anato
Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:20 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Some 2020 General Election Polls
Replies: 439
Views: 101940

Re: Some 2020 General Election Polls

When there are people on the fence going into the voting booth, with Trump and Biden staring back at them from the sheet or screen, I bet you the majority are going to say to themselves I cannot have another 4 years of the divisiveness that just happened and they will vote Biden. I'm not a citizen,...
by anato
Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:14 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: The Elephant in the room: How should we prepare for the collapse of the US?
Replies: 53
Views: 20767

Re: The Elephant in the room: How should we prepare for the collapse of the US?

pp4me wrote:
Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:57 am
not even filing U.S. income tax (which I believe you are required to do if you live overseas no matter how much money you make).
I wouldn't bet my house on it, but I vaguely remember that if you make less than 90k$ a year, and are living abroad, you're not required to file.
by anato
Thu Jun 25, 2020 3:50 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Is Trump doing a good job?
Replies: 840
Views: 251220

Re: Is Trump doing a good job?

I feel isolated here. Want to ask again if anyone on this board is Asian and is ok or not with it. Not Asian (I'm Italian), but my wife is Chinese. She was pretty upset when Trump first called it "Chinese virus", not because it isn't true (first reported in China), but out of fear that it might lea...
by anato
Fri May 15, 2020 7:05 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Is your pp passing the coronavirus test?
Replies: 34
Views: 14629

Re: Is your pp passing the coronavirus test?

My GB-ish portfolio is down ~4% since peak in late Feb, so working just as intended, with added bonus of some losses harvested in March. And working from home with very small kids it's really a godsent, I just have no energy left to care about what goes on in the market more than once a month when I...
by anato
Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:30 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Getting Into Linux
Replies: 34
Views: 11042

Re: Getting Into Linux

* There isn't any particular "owner" to report back to. * I can observe my network traffic. * It's certainly better than using an OS that I know for sure DOES spy on me! There isn't a single owner to report to, but so many different entities, private individuals and companies, can contribute code t...
by anato
Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:13 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Getting Into Linux
Replies: 34
Views: 11042

Re: Getting Into Linux

I haven't decided what I'll do then. There's a free version but I'm spoiled by all the features in the Professional version, as well as the included support incidents. I've had to use only one of those in several years but it's nice to have them available if needed. I guess it will depend on how my...
by anato
Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:37 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Getting Into Linux
Replies: 34
Views: 11042

Re: Getting Into Linux

</rant, since I couldn't resist> ::) Linux user since the mid '90s, first Slackware (6m), then Debian for around 10 years, then Ubuntu. Linux was the perfect OS when I was a (eng) student: good local university groups for chatting and problem solving, plenty of very accurate and hands-on documentati...
by anato
Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:14 pm
Forum: Cash
Topic: How do you invest the Cash portion?
Replies: 243
Views: 169035

Re: How do you invest the Cash portion?

1) I Bonds. The limit is $10,000? Plus, if you overpay your taxes by $5,000 you can purchase another $5,000 with your tax refund? Is that what you do? Yep, I try to overpay taxes. Then $10k for each one of me, my wife and 2 kids... so plenty of room there. It would mean my additional contributions ...
by anato
Fri Jul 05, 2019 12:36 am
Forum: Cash
Topic: How do you invest the Cash portion?
Replies: 243
Views: 169035

Re: How do you invest the Cash portion?

3 components for me: 1. I Bonds (every year, as many as I can get) 2. 1-3-6 months TBills in auto-roll at Fidelity 3. $10k-ish in a Fidelity cash account, in FDLXX The dynamic is fairly easy: when the balance in the cash account reaches $11k (and no big expense is on the horizon), that $1k becomes a...
by anato
Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:56 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: BYND
Replies: 84
Views: 85993

Re: BYND

A couple of years back I spent an interesting night at a dinner party listening to a micro-biology researcher who'd been studying gut bacteria for years (first time I heard about poop transplant), and that turns out to be pretty much as important as what you eat to influence how much fat you store, ...
by anato
Wed Mar 06, 2019 11:23 pm
Forum: Bonds
Topic: Fidelity Bond and Bill Direct Purchase ?'s
Replies: 30
Views: 23035

Re: Fidelity Bond and Bill Direct Purchase ?'s

I made a purchase of 4 week T-Bills 4 weeks ago with auto-roll to test it out. I figured out how to cancel auto-roll on the website. A couple days before the auto-roll happens they show up as a pending order in the "Orders" tab on the account. It has a cancel button, and if you cancel the order it ...
by anato
Tue Feb 05, 2019 3:38 pm
Forum: Bonds
Topic: Fidelity Bond and Bill Direct Purchase ?'s
Replies: 30
Views: 23035

Re: Fidelity Bond and Bill Direct Purchase ?'s

Only issue I found with the auto-roll is that there's no way on the website to turn it off if you change your mind and you don't want them to buy it again when it matures. But this is realistically an issue only for STT, not LTT, since after a 30y bond has 20y left, you're supposed to sell it and bu...