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A lot of it is in fully-franked shares in a self-managed superannuation fund. The fund is now in pension mode, which means it pays no tax on earnings. Where I live, fully-franked shares, in a zero tax environment, get a refund , from the tax office, of all the tax that the issuing companies payed on those earnings!! It's a sweet deal, but actually makes me feel a bit guilty. It's all 100% above board (and managed by…
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Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
#272I automated my Investment Portfolio. My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy. Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year
I just sell after the earnings or when I gain the desired amount (5-10% return)
Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
#273I have a robot lawn mower that is wire guided. Instead of the traditional lawn mowers that basically cut the grass in all directions (making a sloppy cut pattern) my mower knows how to cut in straight lines so you get a traditional cut pattern. It also has the ability to dump the grass cuttings into a composting bin. Basically, I put down wire guide cable into the lawn and into the cement as well. It is all powered b…
Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
#274I automated my Investment Portfolio. My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy. Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year
With earnings of publicly traded companies in the US reported quarterly by law, how is this distinct from the list of all high-growth tech company stocks?
Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
#275I automated my Investment Portfolio. My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy. Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year
Do you automate the selling as well?
Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
#276I've automated almost all of my diabetes management into a level I basically can look into graphs and decide the level I want my glucose to go. For glucose monitoring I use Dexcom G5 sensors[0] and xDrip[1] open source monitoring application for Android. Insulin delivery is handled by a Accu-Chek Spirit Combo[2] pump, that is one of the rare pumps with a Bluetooth connection. The entity deciding the basal rates and c…
Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
#277I built an accelerometer-based washing machine sensor which sends a notification to my phone when the washing is done. This is useful because the machine itself has no indication when it's done: http://www.instructables.com/id/Washing-Machine-Notification...
https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-pow.html https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota https://www.home-assistant.io
Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
With earnings of publicly traded companies in the US reported quarterly by law, how is this distinct from the list of all high-growth tech company stocks?
The stock grows/declines severely during earning call. I use that to my advantage/leverage
>quarterly by law
I don't think you answered the GP's question. What is the point of looking at the earnings call date if your script just returns a full list of companies? (Or maybe when you said 90 days you meant a shorter time period?)
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Can you give a basic writeup of your physical archiving to digital? A friend did this and I want to do this now
I am doing this too and using ScanSnap. It turns out to be a really good and fast scanner for documents, not really photos. The included manager app works on Windows and Mac, and I have it set up to save bitmap pdf to a network share then run them thru abbyy ocr (also included.) Then I can search from manager's thumbnail browser, the operating system's search facility, or beagle.
Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you give a basic writeup of your physical archiving to digital? A friend did this and I want to do this now
There wasn't much to the paper archiving. I bought a fancy scanner[0] and already had a shredder. To store the files on disk I keep directories marked by topic/year/month/day. The topics are stuff like taxes, finances, bills, etc. The important documents are in a couple encrypted HDDs that I use for backups. I've been thinking of doing an offsite storage like Backblaze B2 but it's probably overkill. After scanning st…