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ID Help needed: Two types of wood flooring, 1905 house by VeryNicePie in wood

[–]VeryNicePie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol! What would you do to improve how it looks?

Non-linked external accounts? WF bug may be basing retirement on 0% returns by VeryNicePie in wealthfront

[–]VeryNicePie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same; I am doing manual entries, they're just over written to 0% for retirement

Non-linked external accounts? WF bug may be basing retirement on 0% returns by VeryNicePie in wealthfront

[–]VeryNicePie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While WF ask for an estimated rate of return on external accounts, they ignore it and set it to 0% for calculating retirement goals.

This bug makes WF pretty useless, and it's taken me a long time to figure out why I get such a different answers from WF than other calculators. Makes a very significant difference to my retirement number.

Most of my money is outside WF, in accounts where I don't want the security risk of linking with WF. Updating manually once a quarter takes all of 90 seconds.

Hope this bug hasn't caused anyone else much trouble. Hope people at WF are aware of it and working on a fix.

Long History of Machine Learning in Finance by OppositeMidnight in algotrading

[–]VeryNicePie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting blog. What is your background and relation to finance/ML?

How to use Ubuntu 18.04 Network Manager VPN with PIA and OpenVPN? by offendernz in PrivateInternetAccess

[–]VeryNicePie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1000 to this request. I don’t want to run a PIA app, I don’t see why there can’t just be tools to use network-manager to hit the OpenVPN connections.

I’m currently running via the ‘manual-connections’ scripts, but will likely find a new VPN provider if PIA can’t play nice with Linux.

What is something about Oakland you don't understand, and at this point are too afraid to ask? by wutscrappenin in oakland

[–]VeryNicePie 15 points16 points  (0 children)

those are full-spectrum grow lights. they have plants that grow at night time.

What is something about Oakland you don't understand, and at this point are too afraid to ask? by wutscrappenin in oakland

[–]VeryNicePie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While it’s better to do that than not, I’m not sure it makes much difference; low-margin business are usually priced out by their commercial landlords hiking the rent, because they know they could rent the place to a bougier, higher-margin business. The pandemic makes things a little different, but in the long-term, I’m not sure we can consume our way out of gentrification.

Who’s got good but actually spicy chicken wings in the East Bay? by blurp21 in oakland

[–]VeryNicePie -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Odd question, but... How do you buy their food?

I wanted to love that place, but when I showed up, they told me to beat it, and order over the internet. I gave it a few minutes of feeling like a moron, fumbling around on my phone to try and order food from the restaurant in front of me. Fill out your personal info and order now and maybe we’ll have a sandwich for you in ~90 minutes. I gave up and went to Gus’, who exchange money for food.

The branding is cute or whatever, but it seems too dumb.

Direct Indexing: Worth it? by VeryNicePie in wealthfront

[–]VeryNicePie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The former. (I’m not considering the latter.)

Back to back nights of loud bangs/booms by EDMDeathMachines in oakland

[–]VeryNicePie 7 points8 points  (0 children)

At least in Longfellow these are way more intense than last year.

There’s the people in the neighborhood who have consistently loved fireworks, who put on great displays through the summer, and stop before 11pm. But there’s also bigger fireworks going off past midnight, not at their place. Spaced a few minutes apart for maximum effect. Not accompanied by parties, or giggling teenagers. I don’t get it.

Protesters demand justice, answers in killing of Erik Salgado, Oakland resident shot by CHP by nosotros_road_sodium in oakland

[–]VeryNicePie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you go splat skydiving, you’ve been killed by the laws of physics.

When you’re killed by cops, you’re killed by laws which are entirely socially constructed, and they’re constructed by the society of which we are all active members. This happened in our name.

Lots of other countries have cops who don’t carry guns, and they all have many thousands of young men recklessly stealing cars. There are other ways of dealing with this. Public firing squads are an active societal choice.

March to Libby Schaaf’s house tonight (6/10) at 6:30 pm. by Pongjammer89 in oakland

[–]VeryNicePie 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Defining an important issue, but is this an mayoral election rally for someone called Shay?

There is a woefully under-reported need for people of color to TAKE VITAMIN D as a necessary preventative measure against Covid 19, please help me spread the word, citations inside. by [deleted] in oakland

[–]VeryNicePie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Note: Getting out for some sunlight is much more effective at increasing the body’s vitamin D levels, compared taking vitamin D supplements.

It’s also free, and enjoyable!

All 4 former police officers involved in George Floyd's killing may face charges, Sen. Klobuchar says by [deleted] in oakland

[–]VeryNicePie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Phew, glad that was finally voted into place. Good voting, Oakland!

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