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My Pandemic 2020 Build
Parts List: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X w/Wraith Spire Cooler [$189.99] MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus ATX [$154.99] MSI Radeon RX5700 XT Gaming X 8GB 256-bit GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 [$409.99] G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 CL16-18-18-38 1.35V 128GB (4x32GB) 288-pin [$429.98] Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD 2000GB [$249.99] Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 […]
treehash.py – Amazon S3 Glacier Tree Hash
I am planning to implement a bare-bones system to backup pictures, videos, financial records, and software development projects. Among Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, I find that the long term storage services offered by Amazon to be cost effective at $0.0036 per GB per month or $3.60/mo for 1TB. Amazon S3 Glacier also provides a mechanism […]
Happy New Year 2022!
For the new year, I resolve to focus on the following: health: lose 25 pounds in 20 weeks using diet and exercise, and 45 pounds by the end of the year finance: generate returns by periodically establishing high probability of profit options trades career: focus on developing marketable skills, specifically skills in securing software architectures […]
My Start in Options Trading
CNBC’s Yun Li reports, “A record of 39 million options contracts have traded daily on average this year, rising 35% from 2020, according to Options Clearing Corp.” After nearly twenty years of opening a brokerage account and managing a stock portfolio, I completed an options course offered by TD Ameritrade and contributed to this year’s […]