samolang

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by samolang 8y ago
Sure. All I was saying is that it's theoretically possible for a market order that a customer submits online to be front-run (as opposed to a market order submitted to a single exchange). No clue how often it happens in practice.
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by samolang 8y ago
> What a broker does has nothing to do with how market orders work. A market order submitted to a single exchange isn't the same as a "market order" submitted to e.g. Fidelity.com. He's talking about the latter.
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by samolang 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure you misunderstand market orders because by definition they are only visible to the market after they have traded, so nobody can get ahead of you or do sonething irrational before your order lands. Have you read Fla
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by samolang 8y ago
If bitcoin becomes 'the currency of the future' then renting 51% of the capacity at market rates will be prohibitively expensive.
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by samolang 9y ago
I mean many people start bodegas, restaurants, etc. I imagine that's more akin to 19th century entrepreneurship and still is by far the most prevalent form of entrepreneurship today (only like 1.3% of businesses are created in the Bay
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by samolang 9y ago
> The current way of doing things Is there a realistic alternative? Sure, universal basic income eventually, but that's not practical at the moment.
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by samolang 9y ago
> Middlemen, example Amazon, have never been stronger. The strength of a middleman can be directly measured by how much they mark up prices. Does amazon really mark up prices more than the brick and mortar retailers it replaced?
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by samolang 9y ago
Pretty sure they do. https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/7jg14f/one_o...
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by samolang 9y ago
That alternative to putting them in the desert is putting them in some non-desert area or putting them nowhere. If these people are objecting to putting them in a desert, they'll object to putting them in a non-desert area too.
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by samolang 9y ago
I agree mostly. But there may also be a cyclical effect where women don't go into CS because they don't see women working in tech. In which case Google shouldn't necessarily have a legal obligation to hire more women, but the
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by samolang 9y ago
> very strict immigration policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
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by samolang 9y ago
thanks for the recommendation
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by samolang 9y ago
I'd rather own snapchat personally. Think it has more upside than the rest of those combined. Only one close is twitter. You don't buy a company like snapchat for a 20% return, it's 5-10x return or bust.
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by samolang 10y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/756004029239472132
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by samolang 10y ago
> The only way I could be <25 would be to exercise 3 hours a day and eat 1200 calories. You could weigh 184 pounds and have a BMI <25. Even with a sedentary lifestyle you'd still burn 2,199 calories a day. This is patently fal
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by samolang 11y ago
> the first focus should be on trying to retain all full-time employees Why? The 20% that are fired can get other jobs. The group as a whole ends up getting paid more with lay-offs than with pay cuts.
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by samolang 11y ago
Yeah, I meant more like a Tesla or Chevy Volt.
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by samolang 11y ago
How big of a solar panel would you have to stick on top of an electric car to keep it going forever (ignoring the extra weight/wind resistance)?
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by samolang 12y ago
I think he switched to the Pixel: http://www.zdnet.com/article/chromebooks-biggest-fan-linus-t...
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Under Armour to pay $560M for MyFitnessPal, Endomondo fitness tracking apps(bizjournals.com)
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by samolang 12y ago
Joining seems to imply they'll be keeping the acquired company's employees.
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by samolang 12y ago
It says they visited 6,815,255 Google sites and 1,686 contained malware. It only visited 152 DuckDuckGo pages. It would have to visit an order of magnitude more than 152 Google pages in order to expect one of them to contain malware.
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by samolang 12y ago
Storing a history of all of your messages in the cloud isn't a feature for everyone.
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by samolang 12y ago
That is not true. What do you think the purpose of fat is? As long as you have fat supplies, your body will use those fat supplies. Example: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3549931.
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by samolang 12y ago
Lowering your BMI from 31 to 24 by cutting fat makes you healthier and increases your expected lifespan (regardless of whether or not you exercise), chopping off your legs does not.
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by samolang 12y ago
You don't have to do it forever, you just need to do it until you're happy with your weight. I've personally used this method of weight loss because I find it very difficult to exercise effectively when I'm running on a
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by samolang 12y ago
> If you employ a caloric restriction diet, you must do something to keep your metabolism from down-regulating No you don't. You will always burn calories by simply existing. You can get no exercise and still lose weight simply by c
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by samolang 12y ago
There may not be a consistently correct way to optimize health, but there is a consistently correct principle when it comes to weight loss. Consumer fewer calories than you burn and you will lose weight (even if those calories come from pro
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by samolang 12y ago
Agreed. You can't show ads unless you have users. Optimizing advertisements is definitely second fiddle to optimizing the user experience.
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by samolang 12y ago
4. The NSA is incompetent, and correctly concluded that NK is responsible using erroneous reasoning.

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