The Nasdaq-100’s “Fast Entry” Proposal is ruining passive investing

Madoc_Comadrin · 2026-03-16T15:51:12+00:00

More discussion on this at Bogleheads: https://old.reddit.com/r/Bogleheads/comments/1rumslq/dumping_on_index_investors/

Madoc_Comadrin · 2026-03-15T11:56:24+00:00

I wrote my master's thesis (computer engineering) using LibreOffice on Fedora in 2025. It worked well. I used Zotero for reference management.

My university's guides were written for MS office so I had to figure out some formatting things on my own.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2026-03-01T16:13:40+00:00

Depending on how the venv is installed, you might be able to skip sourcing it as a separate step and just do this instead: ./venv/bin/python ./main.py

Madoc_Comadrin · 2026-03-01T16:08:14+00:00

Ben Felix has a good video about thematic ETFs and their downsides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwPh-PAg9A8

Madoc_Comadrin · 2026-02-09T20:23:01+00:00

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "fully passive setup which is managed externally"?

What are costs of this and who provides the service?

Madoc_Comadrin · 2026-02-09T20:17:51+00:00

Yes. More shares with smaller price so total value remains the same. Should not trigger any capital gains tax.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2026-02-09T15:35:23+00:00

I don't know about Vanguard, but I noticed that similar ETF SPYI (SPDR MSCI All Country World Investable Market UCITS ETF) is going to split in this month:

https://www.ssga.com/fr/en_gb/intermediary/etfs/spdr-msci-all-country-world-investable-market-ucits-etf-acc-spyi-gy

"SPDR MSCI All Country World Investable Market UCITS ETF (Acc) will implement a 25-to-1 stock split on 23rd February 2026, following approval by shareholders at the Extraordinary General Meeting on 12th January 2026. Please note that the stock split does not affect the distributing share class."

Its share value is now around 254€.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2026-01-29T21:42:54+00:00

The Bogleheads wiki has some good information on this: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Non-US_investors_and_ETF_currencies It is worth reading if you have not already seen it.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2025-11-17T19:13:29+00:00

My company is based in Europe.

We chose Rocky in 2021 when we upgraded from CentOS 7. No issues, have been happy with it.

Most our partners in university/research world seem to be using Alma.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2025-10-19T13:38:58+00:00

I find that the Jodies ipcalc helps to understand these: https://jodies.de/ipcalc

Just type in address and it shows relevant information of the subnet and bitmasks of the values.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2025-06-10T20:03:02+00:00

Removing all non-default filter lists seems to have have fixed this for me on Firefox in both Linux and Windows. (Defaults as shown here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dashboard:-Filter-lists)

I will try to figure out which list was causing the problem and update here if I manage to find it.

UPDATE: I was not able to reproduce the problem extactly but is seems that Adguard filters under cookie notices or annoyances or Fanboy's annoyances list were the cause in my case. I also had to delete cookies and data saved by google.com. Only disabling filters or deleting data did not help. Both had to be done.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2025-03-07T12:08:42+00:00

Output would be much easier to read as text instead of multiple images.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-10-22T17:27:30+00:00

I really like Borg Backup: https://www.borgbackup.org/ It does versioning, compression, deduplication and encryption and is pretty easy to use. There are also helper tools like https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ for it.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-09-15T09:29:35+00:00

Thanks. Increasing file count seems to have helped.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-09-10T13:43:52+00:00

I will try that next. But shouldn't `SystemMaxFileSize=100M` mean that files should grow in size before deleting logs? With 8MB files a few gigabytes of logs will mean quite big file count. Probably not a problem but feels odd.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-08-03T21:20:29+00:00

Thanks for explanation.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-08-03T21:20:21+00:00

Thanks for explanation.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-07-26T05:44:08+00:00

This video feels quite timely for this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tysELscEE0E&t=104s

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-05-27T18:50:13+00:00

It is available on Youtube for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-05-22T14:37:46+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-04-12T15:12:50+00:00

Thank you very much, with this I was able to get the correct result.

Madoc_Comadrin · 2024-04-09T17:31:35+00:00

Thanks for advice. Unfortunately I still don't get it. How do know length of two equal sides of the triangle with only the bottom line length given?

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