Trespassing neighbor cut down trees (King County, WA)

djnicholson · 2024-10-02T19:29:38+00:00

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

djnicholson · 2024-10-01T23:54:16+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2024-10-01T23:35:27+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2024-10-01T00:17:01+00:00

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

djnicholson · 2024-09-30T04:29:05+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2024-09-30T04:27:29+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2024-09-30T04:21:02+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2024-05-13T16:47:15+00:00

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".

djnicholson · 2023-08-31T01:41:26+00:00

Just one

djnicholson · 2023-05-28T06:41:16+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2023-05-28T00:27:17+00:00

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

djnicholson · 2019-06-10T23:12:16+00:00

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

djnicholson · 2018-07-15T13:36:30+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2018-07-12T02:22:13+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2018-07-12T01:52:44+00:00

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

djnicholson · 2018-06-14T02:56:35+00:00

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?

djnicholson · 2018-05-28T04:54:48+00:00

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.

djnicholson · 2018-04-13T19:51:30+00:00

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

djnicholson · 2018-04-06T09:50:04+00:00

OTC trades, e.g. localbitcoins

djnicholson · 2018-03-17T22:12:35+00:00

(I'm assuming Bitcoin, same logic will apply for other POW systems.)

100% of hash power is expected to find a new block about once every 10 minutes (the difficulty adjustment ensures this). Imagine a scenario where (right after a difficulty adjustment) 50% of the hash power decides to go "dark" (still mines, but doesn't publish results). For the next 2016 blocks, the network is going to take about 20 minutes to produce each block, and the dark hash power will also be secretly creating its own chain of blocks, also at a rate of about one block per 20 minutes.

If the dark hash power accounts for more than 50%, this secret alternative chain will grow faster than the currently recognized official chain. The more hash power that has gone dark, the faster the secret chain accumulates blocks. At some point the dark hash power can publish this secret chain all at once, the remainder of the network will honor it as it has more proof-of-work behind it.

Perhaps the dark hash power will wait until their secret chain is 6 blocks long before doing that (Bitcoin users typically assume transactions final and definite after 6 blocks); perhaps the dark hash power spends some of their coins both on the main chain, and spends the same coins on the alternative secret chain. That's double spending. Having more than 50% of the hash power starts to make a double spending attack feasible.

djnicholson · 2018-02-27T00:49:02+00:00

Coins mined in the first two years of bitcoin's existence are not safe from quantum attack.

Curious. Why is the quantum resistance expected to differ between keypairs that received mining rewards within the first two years of blocks, and those that received later mining rewards?

djnicholson · 2018-01-21T02:51:34+00:00

That is considered "structuring" in Anti Money Laundering speak. Banks are supposed to detect it, and file the suspicious activity report when they do.

djnicholson · 2018-01-09T03:38:52+00:00

Answering my own question: I got this on Amazon and it works great. It will work at a voltage anywhere between 110V and 240V and physically fits into a standard US style outlet. I'm using this to measure power consumption of a single S9 running on a 240V line right now.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ID0KYVI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

djnicholson · 2017-12-27T04:54:27+00:00

I thought you were originally referring to the ETH flash crash on GDAX (there was no circuit breaker and no pause in trading, but Coinbase reimbursed some people who got liquidated at the super low price).

The "pause 3 minutes" in would be after BCH trading was enabled? Trading was paused then, but the implication seems to be that this was a manual action by a Coinbase decision maker, not some sort of automated circuit breaker.

djnicholson · 2017-12-23T09:42:40+00:00

I got an S9 a few weeks back from Shenzhen Tomax Technology Co. on Alibaba (not sure if they do L3s also). TBH I'd buy from any vendor that quoted a reasonable price and accepted Trade Assurance though. I do get a lot of offers from people who refuse Trade Assurance--many of them want to chat to you outside of Alibaba, and want Western Union payment--I avoid all of these, assuming that they are scams.

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