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  • This isn’t necessarily about justice or guilt. They aren’t being imprisoned or sentenced. An organization is choosing not to permit them where their members & the public gather, for “protection”.

    If these individuals were suspected of being in contact with a dangerous contagious disease, you’d hopefully not find it unscientific to minimize risk by telling them not to come to a convention.

    But being a child rapist, or ASSOCIATING with child rapists isn’t a contagious disease. No, but due to their association to members of a prolific child trafficing ring, they may be considered a higher risk for a certain subset of convention-goers (which claims to offer fun for people of all ages)







  • It seems like he’s always caving whenever measures come up which should not be passed, even at threat of shutting down the government, for days, weeks or months.

    I’ll applaud him that he’s able to get from his house to work unassisted, without having a spine.



  • HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyztoBuy European@feddit.ukInvestment funds
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    23 days ago

    Personally, I prefer Vanguard over other US brokerages, say Fidelity, Etrade, Schwab, etc because the company itself is owned by the funds you purchase, rather than outside investors. As weak a reason as that is.

    i’ve previously read that many non-us banks and some brokerages don’t like (read:may refuse) doing business with americans because the USA has strict tax rules and need for disclosures (I think if the cumulative total of all a citizens foreign accounts is over $10,000 it must be reported). If you have recomendations for foreign brokerage accounts, i’d be interested to know more.

    The vast majority of americans do not have significant disposable income, and will be primarily investing in their 401k (employer match for a certain %, as well as tax advantage), if at all. Typically employees are locked into whatever brokerage their employer opts into. Without a 401K, they might instead be using an IRA for tax advantage, but I doubt there are many foreign financial institutions that would/could offer a US IRA.

    That may mean that convincing your American friends to move accounts could be difficult (or impossible) vs just having them invest more into foreign funds at their US brokerage(vxus, etc).









  • Paperless-ngx does include OCR, as well as supporting document types (which can have fields, etc) - but there is no built-in way to intelligently extract field values. You can use the python API to access & update the data and fields. So field extraction via your own code is feasible.

    Given the large variety in receipt layout & potential for habdwritten totals after tips - I’d encourage part of your workflow to include manual ispection/correction of every processed receipt - or at the bare minimum that you include check-in points where you verify your end balances 100% match after all transactions have been entered, so you can detect & root-cause errors ASAP.