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by badfrog 6y ago
That's covered in the first video link
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by badfrog 6y ago
Tons of amazing music with totally new sounds comes from people 16-20 years old. For the right person, it doesn't take a decade.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> Well “the price” might be totally different if there were no off-exchange orders. I'm not sure what that means, but there's no scenario in which you'd get a worse price. That would be illegal under the Reg NMS order prot
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by badfrog 6y ago
You are guaranteed a price that is equal or better than what you'd get on the exchange. Why would you want to bypass that?
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by badfrog 6y ago
From a skim, that article doesn't seem to suggest that DE Shaw has done anything illegal. In fact, the paragraph after the one you quoted from makes it look like they work hard to stay within the bounds of the law: > This secrecy an
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by badfrog 6y ago
Prop traders / HFTs definitely provide liquidity. It's not clear that quant funds do the same.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> Instead you go to an anonymous arb firm, for $1m in bonds, and you say, "okay we're going to sell you the bond that is actually ours, you will sell it back to us, here is your fee, now we can sell this bond back to the client
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by badfrog 6y ago
> I think it’s bad (it’s weird/unfair) How is it bad or unfair? Everybody wins: you get a better price, the market maker does a trade they're happy with, and your broker gets a little bit of money.
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by badfrog 6y ago
How is Domain different/better than Deferred? http://dev.realworldocaml.org/concurrent-programming.html
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by badfrog 6y ago
> I think its a bit presumptuous that tech workers are perm leaving the city. The survey in OP suggests that they are, with two important caveats: * This is obviously not even close to a representative sample of workers * It's predi
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by badfrog 6y ago
If you physically work in California yes. I don't know what happens if you work for a company whose HQ is in California but you're physically in a different state.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> Adapt solutions to your particular use case. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for everything. Compare different approaches, analyze them. Tutorials or articles show an idea, but may not present production-ready code. Always a
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by badfrog 6y ago
> If people's feelings matter, why don't mine? Of course your feelings matter. I'm sure there are plenty of situations where your feelings are the most important factor to consider. But this is not one of those situations.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> It is not painless: it is dissonant The dissonance should be cause for reflection and growth. Why does the gendered version sound harmonious? What does that answer say about the society that evolved our language? > and takes another
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by badfrog 6y ago
> there isn't any ill intent to be talked about In addition to intent, outcome must also be considered.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> there are no other good alternatives for your investment If the market is going down, then even cash is a better alternative.
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by badfrog 6y ago
If your 401k has ETFs or mutual funds in it, the fund managers are rebalancing every month or every quarter. Saving small amounts of money on these transactions really adds up when you think about compounding over decades.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> I wonder How can someone become an expert at python. I think it's the same as becoming an expert at anything. Lots of practice, and lots of feedback from people who are already experts. The latter is unfortunately pretty hard to f
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by badfrog 6y ago
It's not obvious that this well help anything, but at least it's better than Jersey City. They put a cap on how much apps can charge restaurants, so obviously the apps just added more fees for the customer. https://www.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> switched to another team internally because they are pro-remote and I plan on moving back to Australia I don't know about Microsoft in particular, but from what I've seen it's much easier to find a remote position while
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by badfrog 6y ago
> You want to move to the Midwest and work remotely, or apply for a transfer to a different regional office? Happy to let you do it, but know that the market rate for your skills there is X, which means an adjustment in salary for a volu
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by badfrog 6y ago
Sure, it's totally reasonable for somebody to dislike these features. I just object to the claims that it doesn't do anything substantially different than what it did 10 years ago.
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by badfrog 6y ago
I think this is very unlikely. Making the page load one second faster pays Facebook more in terms of user retention and engagement than it costs them in server usage.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> Facebook rendered just fine a decade ago. What changed between now and then It does way more things. In particular, there are a lot more interactive experiences. A decade ago, it just loaded a web page and nothing changed until you ref
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by badfrog 6y ago
> air is recirculated That shouldn't actually matter. As far as we know, coronavirus is not airborne. From the WHO: > According to the currently available evidence, transmission through smaller droplet nuclei (airborne transmissi
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by badfrog 6y ago
> You need somebody to ban it to make your own choices? It shouldn't be surprising that some people think that. Most people still feel that way about most narcotics.
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by badfrog 6y ago
> Calling coffee a mind-altering substance is pretty rich. What? Why? It literally is one. From wikipedia: > Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine class.[10] It is the world's most widely cons
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by badfrog 6y ago
> even the greediest tech company (oracle!) Has not thought of to charge for documentation Oracle sells products/services that thousands or millions of organizations purchase. That's a completely different kind of business arra
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by badfrog 6y ago
42.4% of Americans are obese: https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/... When you add in all the other things that count as comorbidities here, you're probably looking at like 75%.
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by badfrog 6y ago
The key part of that press release is: > As of 24 April 2020, no study has evaluated whether the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 confers immunity to subsequent infection by this virus in humans. The most likely thing is that it does

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