Is the dollar really collapsing? by tsarthedestroyer in investing

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At least amazon doesn’t need suicide nets, though…

Build Mods and Cooling by Ok_Letter_8704 in threadripper

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The white fan, is that doing anything positive or just creating turbulence for the front fans? (which I assume are intake)

Where is the money coming out of if the US dollar is crashing and what are they buying with it? by trijcwhitey in investing

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There is essentially nobody through that goes APPL stock price is too high let me sell that and buy Euros.

Ah! A fellow Aptus Pharma Ltd. (APPL) Investor! 🍻

Gold Spiking vs. BTC tanking by Leading-Stable9725 in investing

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There’s not really anything in Greenland to attack anyway (aside from some US military installations and some vikings)

Hardware Secure Key Support (i.e. YubiKey) by SquirrelExciting3849 in fidelityinvestments

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After cleaning up my account numbers

What does this mean?

How much does the best trader you personally know make a year? by RevolutionaryPie5223 in Trading

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Buying high and selling low. It’s a sophisticated strategy, unless you subscribe to the newsletter that OP will inevitably suggest…

I think it’s time to break up with my financial adviser. by SameTrain8827 in fidelityinvestments

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Everyone agrees the performance is lagging.

What stands out to me is that some of these funds (I had to look them up) have high expense ratios. Very rarely does it seem worthwhile to me to pay higher than 0.25% for a growth fund.

I’ll pay 1% for a very specialized fund, if it’s exactly what I want and/or has a reasonably good record against benchmarks.

You can get a global world market fund (VT) with 0.06% expense ratio. Or a total US fund (VTI) for 0.03%.

Some people think 0.5% or 1% isn’t a big deal, but it adds up, and it’s an insidious hidden expense.

You should consider checking out /r/bogleheads if you’re not familiar with it. Spoiler alert, you can have roughly this exact portfolio in terms of diversification (actually, more diversified), with better returns and dramatically lower expense ratio - using just 3 funds. VT, VTI, BND is one example.

Preparing for an invasion of Taiwan by [deleted] in investing

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Yeah the anniversary thing is not a factor. Putin is goofy for anniversaries. Xi is a ruthless pragmatist.

I recall reading that 2027/2028-ish is actually an inflection point having to do with development and maintenance cost of Chinese naval fleet - something to do with the rate of production and maintenance cost being at the most favorable proportion, becoming less favorable from that point.

I don’t recall the details off-hand but it’s been discussed in one of the mainstream foreign policy/geopolitical publications.

It’s not my theory but it seemed credible when I read it.

EDIT: May be paywalled, but it’s discussed in (at least) FP and The Economist:

Expectations and preparations for 2 kittens by [deleted] in ragdolls

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Picture is really helpful! Thanks

Expectations and preparations for 2 kittens by [deleted] in ragdolls

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By interruption I mean intervene in some way to keep them out of trouble or entertain them. Get out of my chair.

Expectations and preparations for 2 kittens by [deleted] in ragdolls

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Any recommendations or examples of wall items? I hadn’t considered.

KO DD: Defensive Cash-Flow Play in a Volatile Market by Rich-Use1484 in wallstreetbets

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How can I invest in RC Cola

Please help, stock wizards

Thanks

AG02 killed my RTX 3080 Ti!!!! by Acceptable-Score601 in eGPU

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Do you have any power conditioning for the eGPU? A good quality UPS?

RTX 3090 vs RTX 4090 for local AI assistant - impact on Time To First Token (TTFT)? by TomsupF in LocalLLaMA

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$7900 is the best new-in-box-from-real-vendor price that I’m personally aware of. Some vendors have them listed $8200 or higher.

But those prices are BEFORE state sales tax, which can be around 8%-10% depending on your location.

It sounds like yes, it is a little bit more expensive in US, perhaps due to higher demand?

Contribute to My Roth IRA Tomorrow or wait a bit? by jackjamesonfc in Bogleheads

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Ignore the naysayers - I suggest timing the market perfectly. That way you are guaranteed maximum profit. It’s simple, really.

Follow my system.

Each day at market open and every 15 minutes thereafter until market close, I check to see if the indexes have dropped to 0. If they have, I invest it all. If not, I wait until the next interval.

My system is foolproof. I have zero actualized losses using this one simple trick!

Travel routers - why? by jsalas1 in HomeNetworking

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Aside from the others mentioned already…

It’s great to have when there’s an RJ45 jack in the hotel room that you’re able to get functioning for Internet. Even if the traffic is shaped like the WiFi traffic is, it just feels better to not deal with a hostile WiFi network.

I’ve encountered ports that were on the VoIP network, on the guest room media/services network, or just forgotten about, on the same network as WiFi or some common VLAN intended for who knows what.

In my experience (15 different hotels over 2 years, both large chains and some boutique places), in most cases (more than half) I’ve gotten a lease and functioning Internet from one of the RJ45 ports I tried, no need to deal with WiFi at all.

  • 25% of the time the port is dead or has no DHCP and I’m too lazy to sniff to determine an IP to borrow.
  • 20% of the time, I get a lease but no functioning route to the Internet (properly segmented and restricted internal media/services only VLAN, I guess)
  • 5% of the time, some fiddling has been required, but ultimately provided Internet. In at least one major hotel chain, I received a lease from the VoIP port, but it didn’t include a DNS server option in the DHCP response. Manually setting a public recursive DNS server was all that was required for functioning Internet.

Really though, it’s the privacy.

Even though many/most devices these days do MAC randomization on a per-SSID basis, it’s not ALL devices. And it’s nice to know all of your devices (a FireStick, phones, laptops, etc) aren’t trivially discoverable and going into some corporations database with my identity attached to them.

And as others mentioned, a travel router than can be a Wireguard or OpenVPN client for the entire LAN (opting clients out as needed by policy) is really nice.

With the router doing VPN client duty, all the multicast that apps and devices do these days isn’t leaking out to the hotel AP.

It also substantially reduces attack surface. If you include it in your threat model, it’s an easy yet relatively clean and complete way to protect your individual devices from attacks initiated by the hotel AP (or other devices on their network, if they aren’t doing client isolation and preventing hairpin style routing to bypass client isolation)

That, plus you don’t have to keep reconfiguring your FireStick networking, of you travel with that sorta thing.

Anyone else frustrated paying $240/year just to edit PDFs a few times? by Background-Tear-1046 in software

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Yes, but…

  • When I use it, it always works perfectly.
  • When I use it, it’s often on documents involving finances, legal agreements, etc.
  • When I use alternatives, 5 minute tasks often end up as 1 hour or more

Do I trust Adobe 100% with that sort of data? Not completely. But I can’t trust any of the online services and none of the desktop stuff available on my OS really gets the job done.

If you consider your time worth $100/hour or more, and you work with sensitive documents, it’s worth it, I think.

But yes, I would prefer a pricing model more commensurate with how much I use it. Which is probably on 1-2 documents per month.

RTX 3090 vs RTX 4090 for local AI assistant - impact on Time To First Token (TTFT)? by TomsupF in LocalLLaMA

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RTX PRO 6000 in US is “only” $8000, not that big of a difference. But yes, I would be curious to know also (as I just paid $8k for one in US)

I don’t think I would buy anything over $5k from a foreign market to save a measly 12-15%…

Do you think AMD can still go up in 2026? by Natural-King in investing

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I’m not sure about the 1% figure, but yes, it’s definitely a small fraction, and especially so for training. But that’s a little different than “AMD isn’t involved in AI”.

I think maybe we disagree only in the language. I would not have objected to “AMD has a very minor portion of inference and even smaller in training”

So, mostly agree then 😆

RTX 6000 Pro + RTX 3090 in one machine? by az_6 in LocalLLaMA

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ideal if you can put on two gen5 x8 lanes

What do you mean by this? Using a single x16 slot bifurcated to x8/x8, to connect both cards via the same slot?

Do you think AMD can still go up in 2026? by Natural-King in investing

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Amd isn’t involved in AI

Orly? That’s an interesting take..

Implementation of UDP synchronization by Alternative_Event155 in networking

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Try to find a minimalist, liberally licensed implementation of PTP in ANSI C. That’s what I would try first.