rramdin

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by rramdin 6y ago
I would rather be charged for what I'm using instead of an amount that's fudged to amortize unexpected incidental costs over all users. Maybe some kind of additional insurance against extra costs might be a feature that some users
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by rramdin 6y ago
Perhaps you're comparing a multithreaded version with a single threaded version, or a single-host build vs distributed build. When adding new features to a compiler, you might want to verify that the old and new versions have the same
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by rramdin 6y ago
Like the GP says, I can't imagine that would take more than a few days, even for a very large project with many dependencies.
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by rramdin 6y ago
Doesn't that statistic imply that working more correlates with higher earnings?
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by rramdin 6y ago
Savings like these are generally passed on to stakeholders; existing contracts (e.g. vendors, clients, employees, contractors) are rarely automatically renegotiated to reflect lower cap ex
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by rramdin 6y ago
WeWork isn't a great apples-to-apples comparison with a residence; it's more like a hotel. This lease almost certainly includes insurance, maintenance, cleaning, and maybe even services like a stocked kitchen, receptionist/of
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by rramdin 6y ago
If they're paying you, isn't it dedicated solely to your economic activity?
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by rramdin 7y ago
The uniformity across all devices is great in Safari too. Synced passwords between my work laptop, home laptop, phone, and iPad is such a convenience. Also great if I'm reading an article at home and then want to bring it up on the pho
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by rramdin 7y ago
Is it ethical to genetically engineer animals (e.g. people) to be braindead?
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by rramdin 7y ago
Yes, generally if you work full time, your employer contractually owns any IP you produce unless you disclose that you're involved in outside projects.
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by rramdin 7y ago
This is throwing any efficient-market hypothesis out the window. Msybe this would work for a year, but why would anyone invest in fund B if it is a consistent loser. If you can figure out a way to slowly buy an asset and then quickly buy mo
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by rramdin 7y ago
Who is this guy and why is this website spreading his opinions. Nothing he says is based in facts or data. All of his conclusions begin with "I feel" not "The data indicate." He says, "I’m sure the British Empire in
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by rramdin 7y ago
They would have less of an opportunity to become iconic if the biggest media distributors censored them immediately.
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by rramdin 8y ago
The stock photo of a Klansman really makes me sympathetic to their case
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by rramdin 8y ago
Hopefully your people's people's people don't interpret "setup e-mail for Mrs. Clinton to use on her Blackberry" as "setup an e-mail server on Mrs. Clinton's existing hardware and configure it on her Black
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by rramdin 8y ago
"Automatically reject 10% of applicants. We don't hire unlucky people."
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by rramdin 8y ago
Building a sustainable arbitrage business requires scale. Margins are thin and should always be getting thinner, so to remain viable, you have to pursue ever more exotic arbitrage opportunities. Arbitrage opportunities encourage a speed rac
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by rramdin 9y ago
But how is requiring the programmer to know that he has to check error codes and whatnot any different from requiring the call be place in a try/catch block? Most cases where exceptions are useful are when the alternative is knowingly
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by rramdin 9y ago
lol wat
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by rramdin 9y ago
If you have to ask this question, you're not ready for this kind of risky investing.
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by rramdin 9y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-13/they-re-t...
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by rramdin 9y ago
HFTs are almost entirely makers; retail and institutional do almost all the taking, so taxing the takers may not have the desired impact on the industry.
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by rramdin 9y ago
Not really missing anything, but if you're willing to accept buying/selling 1% away from the "ideal" price, it's hard to complain about an HFT making a penny because you can't back-off when the market is moving
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by rramdin 9y ago
Automating the work done by human traders, market makers, and specialists has not only facilitated decimilization resulting in smaller spreads, but also allowed trading fees for the retail investor to reach historic lows (the worst you&#x27
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by rramdin 9y ago
There are some exchanges that have tried this, but it's hard when the auction price cannot result in a price better than the NBBO (which is just one way the Reg-NMS has stifled innovation). They are having more success with this in Eur
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by rramdin 9y ago
Michael Lewis and Brad Katsuyama misuse the term "front running," either willfully to stir people up or out out of ignorance. Front-running refers to the practice of a broker holding customer orders, but trading for their own acco
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by rramdin 9y ago
Whenever I see these IEX articles, I think it is useful to point out that they generally describe 3 types of traders: 1) Retail - you and me, who make money through asset appreciation 2) Institutional (IEX's client-base) - big Wall Str
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by rramdin 9y ago
Sanders lacks fundamental understanding of the stock market, indicated by his unsubstantiated refrain "the business model of Wall Street is fraud." First, there are already per-trade regulatory fees, so this isn't a novel ide
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by rramdin 9y ago
4) increased volatility 5) less efficient price discovery The HFT shops put millions of dollars into research to attempt to ascertain correct prices (e.g. ETF pricing, derivatives pricing, etc). If they are disincentivized from trading in t
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by rramdin 9y ago
"I don't avoid local safety and service regulations, so nobody else should."

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