If short-term capital gains taxes are the main concerns, perhaps this pseudo QQQ strategy can be done in a Roth IRA account using brokers that offer free commission?
The poster was mostly right, and I was mostly wrong, I don't like admitting that but that's just what it is.
I updated the skill I wrote to make it so that rebalancing is "buy-only", as in rebalancing will just buy shares for the underweight things instead of selling the overweight. I don't think buying is a taxable event so I don't think that's going to make me have an absurd tax burden then.
I will say that I think Maxatar was a bit misinformed about Interactive Brokers though; they've had PFOF/"commission-free" trading with their free Lite package for awhile. Of course you still pay the bid/ask spread, but if something is popular enough to be on the NASDAQ-100, the spread is usually on the order of a cent or two.
It was a creative use of AI to essentially fork your own version of QQQ, which is definitely interesting! It probably doesn’t work with a US based retail account but some Roth IRA account holders or expats in Hong Kong trading US stocks might appreciate your idea
Disclaimer: I am not Evan Stone but I really want to thank him for writing such a complete walkthrough on iBeacons and BLE. As a side question: does anyone have experience with Estimote Long Range Location Beacons? It is advertised to have a max range of 200 meters, but I wonder if iPhone's bluetooth range can reach that far.
Piggybacking on this a bit: does anyone have a good recommendation for learning more about home water distillers and RO systems? Both for just certain faucets and maybe even the whole household? I know filtering all the water at home is likely overkill (in most places!), but I'm curious.
Under sink RO is not a big deal, you can buy a system for relatively cheap at Sams or probably Costco, and there's not much that you have to know, just change the prefilters when you are supposed to. Depending on the bladder and how much usage the RO system gets, it can take a while to fill a glass, 15-20s maybe? Filling a pot of water is infuriatingly slow.
RO systems waste water as that is how they work, expect your water usage to go up (how much depends on a lot of factors, for us it did not impact our water bill).
Whole house RO systems are probably a non-starter, keeping the water pressure up high enough seems like it would be very expensive.
A while ago, people on HN were discussing about Joel Spolsky's essay "Developers' side projects". Interesting discussion about the legal concerns and where to start.
I use Xcode profiler on completed new features every time before I submit a pull request. If you do iOS/OSX development, it is always a good idea to use Xcode profiler to catch memory leaks/abandoned memory in order to minimize app crashes.
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