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Honestly, if I were you I'd stay away from Linux-- if you are not too technical, it can be pretty daunting at times! I've had experience with Linux, Mac, and Windows laptops and I'd rank them from easiest to *hardest to use in this order: Mac, Windows, Linux.

Mac laptops, to me at least, are the easiest laptop to use. Updates are applied easily, and often times you should not have any issues with the laptop. Based off of your needs, I would think that if you choose the Apple road you would be well suited with a Macbook air or a Macbook (the 12 inch model one, not the pro). I've tested both the air and the normal macbook and both appear to run very fast for your uses (writing/typing, web browsing, email, possible video editing, etc.). Sure, the internal specs might not be as strong on paper as a similarly priced Windows laptop, but Apple's laptops are optimized VERY** nicely and I bet you would find them fast.

Between the Macbook Air and the normal Macbook, I'd reccommend the normal Macbook-- it cost around 200-300 more, but the quality of the machine feels a lot better! I think it's made with some type of aluminum compared to the Air's plastic casing. Not to mention, the normal macbook has the retina screen which appears light years better than the air's 1440 by 900p screen :D Also, there seems to be some kind of status symbol around owning a Macbook if that means anything to you.The macbook air can be had for $800, while the normal macbook costs around $1000-$1200


http://www.microcenter.com/product/463569/MacBook_Air_MMGF2LL-A_133_Laptop_Computer_-_Silver

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-MacBook-MF855LL-A-12-Inch-Laptop-with-Retina-Display-Silver-256-GB-New-/272702476809?hash=item3f7e559209:g:Xf8AAOSwZ4dZK-VC



On the other hand, windows laptops are nice too. I have noticed though that with windows laptops, over time they seem to get slower and the battery life will become dismal if you use it often. Unlike Macs, windows laptops come in all shapes and sizes and a plethora of different internal parts. Honestly, based on what you said the laptop would be used for, almost any recent windows laptop would do you well. One I can reccommend is the HP Spectre x360.

https://www.amazon.com/2017-HP-13-AC023DX-Touch-Screen-Refurbished/dp/B0716DMS15/ref=sr_1_13?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1496802497&sr=1-13&keywords=hp+spectre+x360

Here is a refurbished listing, brand new they are like $1400 to $1500 :O. This laptop is very strong because it has a Kaby Lake i7-7500u, 16gb of ram, and a 512gb ssd. The resolution is 1080p, and I know there are higher resolutions out there but the screen is 13.3 inches so you should be just fine. And the higher the resolution, the lower the battery life so 1080p is adequate. One thing really nice about this laptop is that it folds 360 degrees, so not only can you use it as a laptop but also as a tablet which is nice to watch movies on or to just relax and browse the web.

I personally prefer windows laptops-- that is because I do lots of gaming on PCs. If you are gaming, I would reccommend a windows laptop 100% because I'd say 99.9% of games are programmed initially for windows. If you aren't gaming, I'd suggest staying with Apple for its ease of use and style. Some windows laptops look nice, but some can get pretty hot and like stated before battery issues and speed issues in my experience arise. Hope this all helps, and good luck finding a laptop! Let me know if you want me to search for any good deals on a certain model.

Stocks are not that complicated. Everyone in finance wants you to think its over your head. The basic idea behind any investment is that you believe it will yield some sort of return.

This is the basic idea behind the stock market; companies are divided into shares and sold in public markets regulated by the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) and independent organizations like FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).

Basic stock analysis starts with analyzing financial reports that are regularly filed with the SEC. The most important parts of these reports are the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statement. AKA the holy trinity. You can look at the current state a company is in by determining its market cap. The market cap is essentially what the market values the company at. It is the number of shares outstanding (number of shares currently in the market) multiplied by the current price of the stock (the number displayed is usually just the price that was last paid for it). Its just how much it would cost to buy the entire company.

From that point you would begin to create an analysis of the financial documents you get from the SEC. This analysis will be based on many different factors and the way people analyze stocks varies wildly. This is really where the secret to finance lies. How can you determine somethings actual worth? There are many ways to do it but basic stock analysis can be learned by reading a few books. I'd suggest starting with Ben Graham's The Intelligent Investor. He mentored Warren Buffet, who is arguably the greatest investor to ever walk the earth. This book will teach you everything you need to know about basic stock analysis. It was written in 1949 and has been updated periodically.

Once you learn to determine the value of a company, you determine if the company is going to grow or shrink. Then you place a bet saying you believe either the value will go up, or go down. If you believe the value will go up you buy stock. If you believe the value will go down you place a bet against the company by investing in such a way that you benefit from the stocks decrease in price. This is known as a "short".


Form there you'll probably develop onions and strategies of your own. Just consume as much information about it as you can.

For starters it may be worth picking up one of these steel ledger seed kits. That's a pretty solid option to have since you could combine that with your fire safe or safety deposit box plan to add an extra layer of protection.

The main things to consider (imo at least) are:

1. What are the odds that somebody gains access to this without your permission
   
   
2. Is this spot viable long term, for example if you ended up in a coma 5 years would you be able to come back for it? Would it be safely hidden all that time? Is there a high probability the backup gets destroyed in that time?
   
   
3. If somebody was looking is this somewhere they'd look?
   
   A deposit box pretty comfortably checks those 3 boxes (provided you're able to pay years in advance on it) and there's a pretty insignificant chance of that ever being compromised unless you're a serious criminal or something then of course the authorities would access it and take the contents I'm sure.
   
   A safe of any kind in your residence would protect it in certain scenarios but if your house was robbed or something of that nature that's exactly where they'd be most interested in looking.
   
   I won't give any specific examples of what I've personally done but hopefully this helps you with your approach to it. The best methods will probably be something you cook up on your own, tailored to your own circumstances, rather than something posted online for the world to see.

>you don't seem to understand the basic of economy. inflation is needed to encourage spending and economic growth.

The idea that you need some price inflation to “encourage spending” and “stimulate the economy” is the propaganda being put out by the parasitic class that’s perpetuating and profiting from this MASSIVE scam. The truth is that you don't need to “encourage” people to spend money. Spending money is all that it's ultimately good for. So it's always a question of how you choose to allocate that spending across time, how much to spend today vs. tomorrow vs. next year, etc. Also consider that when you save money, you are in effect making an investment in the overall economy. Money isn't wealth. Instead, it allows you to make a claim on scarce, real resources. Money is an accounting system for facilitating the exchange of those resources by serving as a credible record of value given but not yet received. When you "just sit on money," the resources that you could have claimed immediately will instead remain available to be used by others -- whether for immediate consumption or investment. You have in effect loaned those real resources to the rest of society. So if we had a system with a fixed money supply, it makes sense to me that the purchasing power of that money should increase over time as the economy grows. In that scenario, the rate of price deflation is essentially the market-determined "interest rate" on a very low-risk loan that can be recalled at any time (by spending the money).

Or think about it from the opposite angle -- why an inflationary money supply doesn't make sense. Again, money is supposed to represent a credible signal of value given but not yet received. If there's an entity that can simply print new money into existence at essentially zero cost, the message carried by that new money is going to be a false one. I’m sure you can intuitively grasp how an ordinary counterfeiter is in effect stealing from others when he prints up phony hundred-dollar bills in his basement. Well the same is true of the more sophisticated counterfeiters in fancy suits who call their counterfeiting things like “open-market operations” and “quantitative easing.”

Recommended reading: Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money

This is better than buying and praying but be wary of many factors when designing a trading system.

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1. Overfitting: When you are backtesting any strategy, there is a danger of overfitting the dataset. A more appropriate way to model this is to separate your data into training and test sets. Then you design your system using the training dataset, then test the performance against the test set. I like to randomly sample the historical data or randomly generate data that has a similar shape to make sure that I'm not overfitting.
   
2. Tax: If you haven't included the tax drag on your investment strategy, you could see the real returns be negative. For example, if I hold a token for over 12 months in the US, my tax rate is half (around 20%) of what I would pay for a short-term gain (nearly 40%). If you are trading in a taxable account, this can be ruinous. If you're trading in a Roth or other tax-free (deferred) account, go nuts!
   
3. Market slippage: You'll frequently find that you cannot enter the market exactly at the market close. Luckily in cryptos you don't have to worry about overnight gaps, but just because the historical data shows a closing price is no guarantee that you can fill your orders at that price. What is the gap between your bid-ask spread? What is the depth of the order book at each day's close?
   
4. Psychology: Unless you are a sociopath, you won't follow your strategy perfectly. You'll sell too early or buy too late, even if your technical indicators are correct.
   
5. Transaction Costs: Every transaction in the crypto space carries a significant cost with it. It can be .25% or more. With a 10-day moving average, you will be trading frequently and those fees will accumulate.
   
6. Risk Management: How large of a position will you allocate to ETH? What do you do when you have a market that tanks overnight, bypassing your stop-losses? How much are you willing to risk on a specific signal?
   
   Be careful. What you have discovered is valuable, but if it were that easy, everyone would be doing it. It doesn't mean it can't be done, but identifying a buy/sell signals is only 5% of your trading system.
   
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   If you are interested in developing these types of systems as a career, consider reading Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business by Ernest P. Chan. It's an excellent starting point for building trading systems.
   
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   https://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Trading-Build-Algorithmic-Business/dp/0470284889
   
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   I have made all of these mistakes and more over the past 10 years as a professional investor. I love this stuff, so I'm happy to answer any questions you guys have about your systems. Maybe I can help save you a little pain and suffering!

No, lightning does not let you do fee-less microtransactions.

Some may think the fees in LN are so tiny they dont matter, but they are wrong.

Humans have a weird intrinsic psychological reaction when deciding to pay 0 cents or pay infinitesimally small sub-satoshis. This tiny nuance is incredibly important to understand if one wants to create a wildly successful businesses centered around the use of cryptos.

Here's a free audible book on this phenomena. I found it incredibly interesting, maybe you will too. Fun fact, Nick Szabo is briefly mentioned here

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0055PK366/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?


Edit: Notice I didn't talk about "user friendly" or "issues". These can be abstracted away by a competent developer, but you cannot abstract away fees.

Not sure about the math bits but this holds true for bull / bubble runs:

> Even small growth will positively loop back and encourage further growth that will continue to grow exponentially

Rober Shiller dives deep into this phenomena in his book Irrational Exuberance

2. Works out the exact same way. If you are short a contract, you have the obligation to deliver whatever X is settled in. You must effectively buy back your contract. This is why the phrases "buy to open" and "buy to close" are important.
   
   
3. Physically settling futures and BTC futures all have a time component to what the contract is worth. What cash or commodity moves hands, as well as mark to market is how price is displayed, not how value is calculated.
   
   Essentially, the money value of time is baked into futures contracts. That's why futures that are further out in time are always worth more. You seem to not understand basic pricing models regarding futures if I'm reading your comments correctly, and prices of the underlying and arb opportunities won't yield any interesting conversation if you don't understand the basics first.
   
   EDIT: Here's a great book for options, and the first part of understanding options is understanding future contracts. As such, it's in the first couple of chapters, a long with exact formulas on why the prices are the way they are, regardless of what is being traded.

thanks for your reply, after a little reading it seems like I can buy a 20ish$ OBD code scanner and plug it right into my car and it will show me the error code that's triggering the CEL and then I can have a good understanding of what's wrong. Does that sound correct?

Here's one I was looking at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007XE8C74/ref=sxbs_ktp-hero_tr_2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=3534580262&pd_rd_wg=uKQxz&pf_rd_r=BBVVSJGBH52KF1WSEDXT&pf_rd_s=desktop-sx-bottom-slot&pf_rd_t=301&pd_rd_i=B007XE8C74&pd_rd_w=dvjDn&pf_rd_i=obd2+scanner&pd_rd_r=26c51c71-7792-430b-bcb7-610ff86f1c72&ie=UTF8&qid=1524224619&sr=2

Seems like it can also clear the CEL.

I'm new to the car game so trying to learn and do as much as I can on my own. Around here mechanics and dealerships are notorious for playing you especially when they sense you're a newbie. It seems like to me everything is pretty easy to do on your own, even with some youtube videos changing your own brake pads doesn't seem to difficult.

Great, but 1080 TIs eat up to 250W and have an heavy cost. Count on a 1 year ROI roughly, much temperature, much noise, etc.

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/nvidia/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti/

Right now, I've some little miners with 3 x GTX 1070. At 60% power they eat 300W (total, including MB, CPU, etc), doesn't need any extra fan and produces enough to be ROIed in 6 months, ex:

https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GeForce-WINDFORCE-REV2-0-GV-N1070WF2OC-8GD/dp/B075DF4PTF

For some cryptos, older cards you can buy cheap like Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 Windforce OC Edition are VERY interesting.

FYI OP, What you have there is a regular fire safe. As others have pointed out it's no good when it comes to burglars...but it's halfway decent at protecting papers and documents through a fire.

If you are worried about protection from fire and storing electronic media, DVD's etc...What you should have picked up is a fire safe rated to protect Media. They have SIGNIFICANTLY more fire protection/insulation and will give your device a much much better chance of surviving a fire. Not sure where you're located but here is one on Amazon.

Two more notes...remember fire is put out with water...so it wouldn't hurt to put your flash drive in a small watertight pelican case within your safe.
For those mentioning humidity in a safe this item does a great job and is reusable vs. many other other items which are one time use.

You're not wrong about a lot of that, but you're wrong on bitcoin. While it might not pay lots of dividends, I wonder exactly what % people gained simply from the forks, bitcoin cash, bitcoin gold, and bitcoin diamond? Probably a lot more than any dividends in the stock market.

Bitcoin is not at all bad as an investment, that's absurd. So is the "Maybe we're about to lose it all" stuff, it goes back to the 80% doesn't know anything about the tech statement you made. We know the US isn't banning it, we know China isn't banning it, we know Korea isn't banning it, we know Japan embraced it. The only risk to crypto, is that some quantum computer cracks it. That's not to say the price is guaranteed to go up over any short timeframe, it's just to address the often said, but always wrong assumption that there's some high probability of it going to 0.

The tech behind all of this, will build the new internet, and it'll be based on tokens as a financial incentive which allows for decentralization, so long as the other tech exists, and BTC is the crypto you buy to access these tokens, BTC has a bright future. I'll again recommend my favorite book on crypto, cryptoassets, it does a good job of explaining things in a way people can understand.

I mentioned on r/ethtrader last week about an Amazon Alexa skill I have written to retrieve cryptocurrency prices. Thought I'd pop it in here for a wider market :)

It's now available in more countries (UK, US, CA, AU, IN) and has a new 'top x coins' intent to allow you to hear the top 5 / 10 / whatever coins by market-cap.

If anyone is interested....

US users: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CQMHRGD?ie=UTF8&ref-suffix=ss_rw
UK users: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07CQMHRGD?ie=UTF8&ref-suffix=ss_rw

I can't get direct links to the other countries versions, but search Amazon -> Alexa Skills -> Education and Reference -> "Crypto Prices".

Things you can try:

"Alexa, ask Crypto Prices to give me the price of {coin}"

"Alexa, ask Crypto Prices how much has {coin} changed over the past {Time Period} (hour, day, week)

"Alexa, ask Crypto Prices for the top {number} coins"

Read the Cryptoassets book, it's a superb overview of markets strategy and investing, well worth a read, it will pay for itself many times over.

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

>https://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutant-Turtles-Band-Aid-Bandages/dp/B00FFGYYX8

You're not 8 anymore. You're all grown up and we're proud of you. They can't hurt you anymore. Treat yourself

The journalist in that website made Freedom of Information Requests toward several government agencies that provide Tor with funding. Most of these requests were shot down for national security reasons, but one of the organizations wasn't covered under such an exemption and the government provided him with the data he asked for. He then published emails between Tor developers and that one particular government agency that showed how The Tor Project provided the agency with newly discovered bugs that security researchers brought to their attention.

Here's the book that the journalist eventually published:
https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-Internet/dp/1610398025

https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html

https://medium.com/@vijayboyapati/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=the+bitcoin+standard&qid=1562269778&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=andreas+antonopoulos+bitcoin&qid=1562269799&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

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If you're looking for a single article, the medium article (second link) by Vijay is a great one.

There is a Ledger Amazon seller: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J66NF46/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3MOVC70K3U305&psc=1

Currently $65.93 & FREE Shipping!

40$ on Amazon for a Trezor, best investment you can make if your serious about buying cryptos.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00R6MKDDE?pf_rd_p=2d1ab404-3b11-4c97-b3db-48081e145e35&pf_rd_r=TRNBMH3GQ5WJ8VCPJJQ3

But they promised me a lambo... /s

Link to book on amazon for those who are interested.

I highly recommend giving this a read.
https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

> From a trusted source

This is your store on Amazon US right?

Ledger Nano S - Cryptocurrency hardware wallet https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01J66NF46/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_vi5QzbXSEM0X9

this is what you want.

I did't read your convo, but your girlfriend wants this and 100$ in ltc on it. thank me later

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Bitcoin-2e-Andreas-Antonopoulos/dp/1491954388/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1540555073&sr=1-1&keywords=MASTERING+BITCOIN

Read this first,
You can also get it free off Github

https://www.amazon.com/Ledger-Nano-Cryptocurrency-Hardware-Wallet/dp/B01J66NF46/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1518243369&sr=1-3&keywords=ledger+nano+s

In stock ready to ship on Amazon.

I'm currently working my way through Chris Burniske's new book Cryptoassets, which I'd highly recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

This book is an interesting read.

Yeah something sketchy is going on. Think this is legit? https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00R6MKDDE/ref=olp_f_primeEligible?ie=UTF8&f_all=true&f_primeEligible=true

The whole history of this plus many other currencies all the way up to bitcoin are laid out in this amazing book https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

A must read for every crypto enthusiast

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861

Read and understand.

Your statements are long debunked by several people.

S T O R E O F V A L U E

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671/ref=pd_cp_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=WET37Z6GRZXXTWD15BVQ

read.

Cryptoassets

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

It's a physical USB that can store cryptos so you can set it aside and let the coin grow without having to worry about something happening to it, say you keep it in a computer wallet and your computer gets hacked and they have access to your wallet...if you have your crypto in the ledger they don't have access to or even know you own whatever is on it.
edit: https://www.amazon.com/Ledger-Nano-Cryptocurrency-Hardware-Wallet/dp/B01J66NF46