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Things they didn’t teach you in school Chapter 1 Pensions

What is a pension? Germany in 1891 was the first country to introduce an age based pension provided by the government through general taxation. Pensions provide an income when you retire from working by investing money in to a long term savings plan, this is generally shares and/or bonds but can be other types…

Finance

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Things they didn’t teach you in school Chapter 1 Pensions
Things they didn’t teach you in school Chapter 1 Pensions

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How to stay safe and secure online

With how interconnected the world is today. There are some standard things that you should be doing to maintain a reasonable level of internet security. All the recommended solutions are free. Https Traffic

Cybersecurity

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Good security  IT practices for the person of tomorrow
Good security  IT practices for the person of tomorrow

Apr 29, 2021

Getting Started with VPN and why you should use them

A VPN stands for Virtual Private network. They are encrypted network connections, allow you to connect to computer service cloud or physical from a remote location without comprising security of the network. …

VPN

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Getting Started with VPN and why you should use them
Getting Started with VPN and why you should use them

Apr 29, 2021

Database Introductions

Databases There are two types: traditional relational database and non-relation database. Traditional relational databases have been around forever well more like 40 years or so. Relational databases also know as RDMS or SQL databases, they store data in rows and columns and join different table to complete complex queries. A join…

Database

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Published in Financial Independence / Retire Early

·Mar 14, 2021

Investing — Get Rich Slow

The great enemy, inflation — Why do you need to invest? Why do you need to invest? Why can’t you just keep your money in a bank account? There are two answers: Inflation Growing your money Inflation is the decline of purchasing power of your money over time. The target rate of inflation from the bank of England is 2% so…

Investing

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Investing — Get Rich Slow
Investing — Get Rich Slow

Mar 14, 2021

The UK Housing Problem

Bricks and motor The Housing Problem Buying a house in the UK has been drilled into every person from a young age. There is an idea that renting is dead money and buying a house is the best investment you can make. When you retire there is a significantly less financial burden on…

UK

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The UK Housing Problem
The UK Housing Problem

Jan 16, 2021

Chapter 2 Investment Funds

Index Mutual Funds An Index fund is essentially portfolios of stocks that match a particular index such as the S&P 500 with the aim to match it’s average yearly return, which for the last 100 years is about ~10%–11% not adjusting for inflation. The index fund also matches the weighting of the index…

Investing

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Chapter 2 Investment Funds
Chapter 2 Investment Funds

Jan 16, 2021

How to create your own Rust Server

Prerequisites Windows WSL 2 → https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 Docker for windows → https://hub.docker.com/editions/community/docker-ce-desktop-windows/ Docker Linux → https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/ Port forward the following ports: 28015, 28016, 8080 both TCP and UDP to your computer that is hosting the server. System requirements 4 GB RAM Minimum for the server

Rust

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How to create your own Rust Server
How to create your own Rust Server

Apr 22, 2020

Gauss’s Trick

What’s the sum of numbers 1 to 10? Well erm, it’s 1+2 +3 +4+5+6+7+8+9+10 So 55? Cool Cool. So what about the sum of numbers 1 to 1*10⁶ then? This is where Guass’s trick comes into play and it’s as follows: Guass’s trick = n/2(n + 1) 10 / 2 (10 + 1) = 55 1 * 10^6 / 2 (1*10^6 +1) = 5.000005*10^11 So basically it’s a quick way to sum consecutive natural numbers quickly.

Maths

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Gauss’s Trick
Gauss’s Trick

Apr 1, 2020

Algorithms Part 1

Binary search Binary Search has a time complexity of O(log N) which basically means it halves the problem space with each search. So Given 20 numbers 0 to 20 and the target number is 6. Then left pointer = 0, Right pointer = 20, MidPoint = (left + right) / 2 =…

Bst

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