cheddarmint

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by cheddarmint 14y ago
Yep. I wonder if they track stats on how many people do that.
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
Is the introduction of a poisonous dichotomy into the engineering zeitgeist a good thing? Consider what this has done for politics.
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
More accurately: "How to let a single oxycontin pill nearly ruin your life."
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
I think the guy made a couple serious missteps here that created a bad situation and then made it a lot worse: 1. He got into the car carrying narcotics that he wasn't legally allowed to use. 2. He accepted legal advice without doing his ho
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
This would suck but it sounds a lot better than being straight-up blind.
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
Agree. It surely would also cost a lot of time (and therefore, money) to determine a 'correct' uneven distribution.
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
I think firing the guy and leaving it at that is the optimal thing for BK to do. Let's agree that it probably won't be cost effective to garnish the guy's wages, in terms of legal costs to take him to court, the potential future income he'
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
Found randomly while looking up 'tempest in a teapot'.
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TEMPEST(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by cheddarmint 14y ago|1 comments
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
Without reading the article, what I imagined was a mad billionaire trying to eradicate life on earth by 2025. Yes, I realize 500 tons is far too small to do that.
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
Yep. Here's an example: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ABIO When I checked this page, the last displayed trade was $0.737.
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
What the linked article doesn't discuss is that it is possible to get a real-time notification when a trade occurs. The price of the last trade is the mid-point that you are referring to. Algo trading/HFT shops are listening for trades as
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by cheddarmint 14y ago
I had a point early in my career where I accepted a 5 hour daily commute (round trip) in order to accomplish the more important goal of finding meaningful work in my field in the region I wanted to live in. Definitely sub-optimal, locally,
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by cheddarmint 15y ago
How about an option for: "Mixed bag: some components are exhaustively tested, others not at all, many in between."
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by cheddarmint 15y ago
I think you could go one of two ways with this: 1. Consume live market data and use an exchange simulator that always gives you back a fill. 2. Use a true exchange simulator, which you will have to seed with orders to provide liquidity and