thr_low_latency

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   by thr_low_latency 3y ago

   > If you only have seven good hours a day in you, does that mean the rest of the day that you spend with your family, reading, exercising at the gym, or whatever other virtuous activity you would be spending your time on, are all done po
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   by thr_low_latency 3y ago

   Yes, like the definition of Nazi and the fact that Goodwin's law no longer means you lose the argument.
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   by thr_low_latency 3y ago

   Moderators _seriously_ underestimate how hated they are. At this point I'd rather the admins just take back the subs and let the voting system sort it out. Like how it did for the first 10 years of the site's life.
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   by thr_low_latency 3y ago

   The salaries of the people doing this sort of thing start at mid six figures out of university and go up substantially from there.
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   by thr_low_latency 3y ago

   To be fair so did ITG.
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   by thr_low_latency 3y ago

   The first step of getting decent latency out of modern computers is to build a pile of cash that's taller than you then set it on fire. They are optimized for throughput, not latency. If you want to do things in microseconds instead of
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   by thr_low_latency 3y ago

   A bit of background around the company: They received the largest fine (until that point in history) for trying to use this to front run the market from their dark pool. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-securities-reg
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   by thr_low_latency 3y ago

   It's easy to make things cheap by making them wrong. Making things fast though is a whole other world.