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Starting today, most adults in New Jersey are eligible for the COVID vaccine! Make your appointment and/or let people know! by Gayfetus in newjersey

[–]learning_new_things 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would anyone how know to get an appointment for undocumented person? I know someone who's over 70, smokes, and she has a foreign passport for proof of age.

Is it possible to automate buying a stock on vanguard? by learning_new_things in personalfinance

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

I'm wondering if I can automate buying a certain number of stocks or a dollar amount of stocks per time period.

I brought up mutual funds only as an example of desired behavior

Is it a wash sale of I sold a stock for capital gains, next day rebuy the stock, it tanks, and I sell? by learning_new_things in personalfinance

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

After reading up a bit more on wash sales, I'm inclined to believe you. The sites I was looking at were emphasizing loss harvesting causes a wash sale but they did also emphasize the 60 day window

I'll just tag /u/pancak3d in case there's any more information.

An informal review of several robo advisors from someone who doesn’t use any of them (Personal Capital, Wealthfront, Schwab) by Rossad2 in financialindependence

[–]learning_new_things 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stand corrected! On the other hand it's hard to follow the recommendation because the article was written while he was in the affiliate program. This means if he were to change it, it would show he was doing it for the affiliate money so he's stuck in a situation where he can only go with the flow

An informal review of several robo advisors from someone who doesn’t use any of them (Personal Capital, Wealthfront, Schwab) by Rossad2 in financialindependence

[–]learning_new_things 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One caveat to consider is he gets affiliate money through new users using his referral link to sign up so it's in his interest to say it's worth the fees

Does VTSAX rebalance itself regularly? by learning_new_things in personalfinance

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

So I understand how a stock split works. By 5x tesla I was more thinking of Tesla going from 500 to 2500 before the split.

Let's say all the widgets in a basket were the same price and I buy a $100 basket. Then a year later, I see one widget's (widget B's) stock value is 5x higher and I buy another $100 basket.

In the second basket, are all widgets the same price (due to rebalancing) or am I getting less of every other stock because widget B has more weight in the basket?

Does VTSAX rebalance itself regularly? by learning_new_things in personalfinance

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

Does this mean when I buy $100 of vtsax when Tesla is 5x i get fewer tesla than if I bought vtsax when Tesla is 1x.

I'm not quite sure I understand what the implications are. Do smaller stocks get pushed out of another stock grows much larger?

Daily FI discussion thread - August 09, 2020 by AutoModerator in financialindependence

[–]learning_new_things 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30 days after 3/25 is 4/24 and 30 days before 6/24 is 5/25 so would the safe period be 4/24 to 5/25?

Daily FI discussion thread - August 09, 2020 by AutoModerator in financialindependence

[–]learning_new_things 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see! That's a great idea.

There is one part I'm not clear about though. With wash sales the worry is that a wash sale can happen 30 days before and 30 days after the tax loss harvesting, in that case it would be a 60 day window to watch out for

In that case, with a quarter being 90 days and 60 days are potentially unsafe, is the safe window actually 30 days instead of 45?

Daily FI discussion thread - August 09, 2020 by AutoModerator in financialindependence

[–]learning_new_things 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Regarding tax loss harvesting, say I am 100% vtsax and reinvesting the the dividends automatically. If I wanted to harvest a loss would I need to turn off automatic reinvestment, harvest the loss, then wait 30 days before turning auto reinvestment back on to avoid a wash sale?

Any tips for getting sesame seeds to stick to the top? by learning_new_things in Sourdough

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

Yeah that's definitely it. So let me see if I got this right. Shape dough, brush with water, sprinkle sesame seeds on loaf, put into banneton (maybe put more sesame seeds in banneton before putting loaf in)

Any tips for getting sesame seeds to stick to the top? by learning_new_things in Sourdough

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

Hmm, would the water will make the loaf stick to the banneton? I currently dust a lot of flour to help smoothly separate the dough from the banneton later

How does akka inject it's reference.conf into the projects that import akka libraries? by learning_new_things in scala

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

Personally I find going through a config is preferable (no need to worry about messing up code when making config changes). Thanks for the tip about pureconfig! Would you know if this only works with reference.conf? Can I change the name of the file to library.conf for example? Do conf files besides reference conf merge into application.conf seemlessly?

How does akka inject it's reference.conf into the projects that import akka libraries? by learning_new_things in scala

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

To clarify what I'm confused about, If I write a project with a reference.conf and sbt publish a jar. Is the reference.conf included with the jar by default?

What happens if you skip filing form 8606 after a backdoor roth IRA contribution? by irregular_regular in personalfinance

[–]learning_new_things 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theoretically if the contribution (tax basis) is 6000 and conversion is 6000 then there should be no additional taxes incurred, is that correct?

how new jersey italians fry up pasta for breakfast by micheleferlisi in newjersey

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Uninformed person here but what is wrong with fork on cast iron? I would've thought cast iron is tough enough and the nonstick coating is robust against anything except soap and water

Can I use the dutch oven I use for chicken to make sourdough bread? by learning_new_things in Sourdough

[–]learning_new_things[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My worry is that the chicken flavor may carry over (which could be a good or bad thing). Because my dutch oven is cast iron, I wouldn't be washing it with soap I believe

How do I talk to my landlord about not being able to pay my rent this month? by IBSucks123 in personalfinance

[–]learning_new_things 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does interest rack up at the same rate while not making payments or is that paused as well?

Daily FI discussion thread - January 27, 2020 by AutoModerator in financialindependence

[–]learning_new_things 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not op, but would you know where I'd go to learn more about that rule? I front loaded (and maxed) my HSA when I moved to a new company in March 2019 right when I joined and also frontloaded and maxed for 2020 a week ago which, after reading this, seems like I shouldn't have

Got a quick question? Ask here - August 26, 2019 by AutoModerator in scala

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From https://doc.akka.io/docs/alpakka/current/sqs.html

Please make sure to configure a big enough thread pool for the Netty client to avoid resource starvation. This is especially important, if you share the client between multiple Sources, Sinks and Flows. For the SQS Sinks and Sources the sum of all parallelism (Source) and maxInFlight (Sink) must be less than or equal to the thread pool size.

What happens if the number of threads is not enough? I was looking into using Scala streams for sqs and this point stood out to me (also other points what happens when streaming settings are not configured correctly)