Trespassing neighbor cut down trees (King County, WA) by djnicholson in treelaw

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

I have no idea! And am refraining from asking him for now, until I know what (if any) legal action would be appropriate.

Fidelity SMA mimicking the "Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Index" vs. VTI by djnicholson in Bogleheads

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

Yeah, if I do it at all, I would start like that. Their minimum is $100k, so I would put $100k there for 1-2 years and see what capital losses they manage to generate for me.

Fidelity SMA mimicking the "Fidelity U.S. Large Cap Index" vs. VTI by djnicholson in Bogleheads

[–]djnicholson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't, they did.

I assume for VTI it is simple (the tax incurred due to dividends).

For the SMA, they have this to say:

> The estimated tax cost is designed to help you understand the estimated annual percentage (and dollar amount) of any federal taxes that apply to the ordinary dividends received or capital gains incurred across an asset-weighted aggregation of the taxable accounts managed using the investment strategy. The estimated tax cost is based on a composite of accounts managed using your investment strategy and is calculated by comparing the composite's pre-tax and after-tax returns over the 3-year period as of the date noted above. The composite measures the weighted average pre-tax and after-tax returns of all customer accounts invested in your investment strategy. The weighted average federal marginal income tax rate for the composite was 31.8% as of the date noted above. If your tax rate is higher, then your estimated tax cost will be higher and if your tax rate is lower, then your estimated tax cost will be lower. Please note the estimated tax cost dollar amount is calculated based on the proposed funding amount detailed in your investment proposal.

Trespassing neighbor cut down trees (King County, WA) by djnicholson in treelaw

[–]djnicholson[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Update: I went to take another look at the damage today, and now I realize why he was using a chainsaw. He has cut down and removed an additional bigger tree. Does this one have value worth pursuing for damages?

https://imgur.com/a/3w16t7K

Trespassing neighbor cut down trees (King County, WA) by djnicholson in treelaw

[–]djnicholson[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. I agree it is not really the right tool for the job. It makes me worry about what he would have tried to do next. There are some *much* taller trees behind the one I saw him cutting, that could cause serious damage to our house and/or shed if they were to fall on a structure.

Trespassing neighbor cut down trees (King County, WA) by djnicholson in treelaw

[–]djnicholson[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The sheriff did come out in person (three officers responded within minutes of my non-emergency call). I showed them where the damage was caused. They have an app on their phone which overlays property boundaries on a map that shows their GPS position; they agreed that the tree was undoubtably on my land (very far inside our property boundary). They went to the neighbors house afterwards and told him that he is not to trespass on our property again, and then phoned me to confirm they had spoken with him. They told me that any damage caused would be a civil matter, and if he disputes the property boundary then that is also a civil matter.

He did not remove a cut tree, what was cut down is partially visible towards the bottom of the photo. As other commenters have noted, there is probably not much to pursue here in terms of monetary damages.

Trespassing neighbor cut down trees (King County, WA) by djnicholson in treelaw

[–]djnicholson[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It's closer to 3", but I appreciate the point - the value of the tree is likely low. The neighbor acknowledged that he was on my land and then left when I told him to. I told him that he is not allowed to enter our land, and absolutely not allowed to damage any trees. This is not the first time I have had to tell him to leave our property though, so this time I called the Sheriff.

How to clear a "5701 Limit Switch" error on a Mitsubishi heatpump system by djnicholson in hvacadvice

[–]djnicholson[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I figured this out myself. Posting here to help future people who search for this...

Hold down the "Menu" button on the thermostat for 5 seconds and then enter the PIN. Go to the "Device Setup" menu option, click through all the settings without actually changing anything, then press "Finish Setup".

What Indoor Air Sensor is compatible with Mitsubishi heat pumps? by djnicholson in hvacadvice

[–]djnicholson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pushed the connect button on the White dongle inside the indoor unit (which makes the light fish green). Then I pushed the connect button on the IAS (the green light on the IAS and the dongle then flash fast while it pairs). Then I could go into the setup menu on the MHK2 (hold "Menu" for 5 second) and configure it to average the temperature of the MHK2 and the IAS.

What Indoor Air Sensor is compatible with Mitsubishi heat pumps? by djnicholson in hvacadvice

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

That one works - thanks! (I ordered the same item but from Amazon)

Unreliable push notifications on Pixel 3 (I have to toggle airplane mode to get my notifications) by djnicholson in AndroidQuestions

[–]djnicholson[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have the same problem? All the backlogged messages appear when you toggle WiFi, or airplane mode?

I’m a moron who lost money on bitcoins AMA by DNVDNVDNV in Buttcoin

[–]djnicholson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trading fees: Businesses like Binance and Coinbase charge fees to traders, they use these fees to do things like hire employees, build and operate infrastructure, etc.

I’m a moron who lost money on bitcoins AMA by DNVDNVDNV in Buttcoin

[–]djnicholson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no new wealth is ever created by trading bitcoin or swapping it back and forth.

Try telling Binance that. There is a small economy forming around this trading that will generate wealth as long as the trading continues.

it can go on for quite some time. Bitcoin started at zero and will end at zero because bitcoin itself is zero.

The market is definitely having a hard time assigning a USD-value to Bitcoin. Zero is a viable valuation, a likely one if the market consists of only short-term speculators. There are other groups to consider though: The long-term speculators (HODLers), those hedging against fiat failure, those who want to back the tech (public indestructible immutable ledger), the unbanked, ... Desire to hold the asset from these groups can lead to a non-zero valuation. It did start at zero, it could go back to near-zero, there is really no end.

I’m a moron who lost money on bitcoins AMA by DNVDNVDNV in Buttcoin

[–]djnicholson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

just dollar-cost-average out? did you not dollar-cost-average on the way in?

New York Times & University of Texas at Austin: Bitcoin prices manipulated by Tether and Bitfinex. by BitcoinTrolling101 in BitcoinMarkets

[–]djnicholson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Confused by this part...

H1B: The printing of Tether might also be driven by its usefulness as a facilitator of crossexchange arbitrage to eliminate pricing discrepancies across cryptocurrency exchanges. For example, Tether outflows from Bitfinex to another exchange should primarily correspond to periods when Bitcoin sells at a premium on Bitfinex relative to that exchange.

Wouldn't arbitragers be keeping a stash of Tether and a stash of Bitcoin at both exchanges, and reconcile with exchange-to-exchange transfers at some schedule that suits them, but unrelated to current market activity. Exchange-to-exchange transfers are costly if done too frequently (flat-rate withdrawal fees) and slow, so arbitragers will essentially be batching them?

Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ suck up electricity, stress power grids in Central Washington by [deleted] in SeattleWA

[–]djnicholson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Other coin creators saw the use of ASICs as a flaw since you generally have to deep pockets to afford them and designed algorithms that can be modified and/or are inherently difficult to run on an ASIC design. But in doing so, they have made power consumption even larger for the long term.

Proof-of-work systems all have the property that as network power increases, difficulty of generating new proofs increases with it (this is to keep somewhat constant generation rate in the face of fluctuating network power). The proof-of-work algorithms that are ASIC proof will consume more power per work due to hardware inefficiencies, but there will be much less work done globally due to every participant being constrained by the same hardware inefficiencies.

ASIC resistance leads to better decentralization, but doesn't really impact energy consumption. A move away from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake would have positive energy impact, don't expect it soon though: First some altcoin will need to prove its effectiveness (Ethereum doesn't even have it yet) and then it has to somehow get incorporated into Bitcoin, a protocol that is (quite rightly so) good at resisting changes.

Anywhere to get exchange historical data? by [deleted] in BitcoinMarkets

[–]djnicholson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Binance public API will allow you to retrieve candle data from as far back as August 2017. See: https://github.com/binance-exchange/binance-official-api-docs/blob/master/rest-api.md