yscale

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by yscale 13y ago
I can't help but think of the reaction that online poker players had when first told that UltimateBet admins were cheating, or that celebrity-backed FullTiltPoker was insolvent. When it came to UB, the common response was that the comp
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by yscale 13y ago
Your comment reads like this: "It's rational for officers to arrest law-abiding citizens who are slightly annoying officers." And I get that a lot of people believe that. But you're wrong. You're so, so wrong. It
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by yscale 13y ago
* this was supposedly in the Bitcoin protocol itself* Cue a line of BTC-promoting ostriches claiming that the protocol is fan-fucking-tastic and in no need of improvement.
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by yscale 13y ago
It saddens me that some people look at travesties like this and think "fuck him, the system is great, three cheers for the status quo." This despite the fact that any honest reading of our medical outcomes shows that America gets
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by yscale 13y ago
I'd also be willing to bet that he programs in languages like Ocaml and Haskell.
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by yscale 13y ago
Saying "cost of replacing the thing" about a baby, to a father, was not calm speech about a difficult topic. It was pointlessly rude and provocative. It was an indefensible way to express his underlying opinion. And if you were p
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by yscale 13y ago
He's entitled to his (ignorant) opinions, but he's not entitled to be so pointlessly rude and cruel with his method of expressing it. If this was a dinner party, I'd quietly ask him to excuse himself, and he'd never be i
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by yscale 13y ago
You are an ignorant, arrogant idiot, and a callous asshole. BTW, we already knew you didn't have kids. We knew that both from your beliefs, and moreso from the the hurtful language you chose to use. We all already knew you were childl
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by yscale 13y ago
HFTs tend to add liquidity when it's least valuable, and they tend to consume liquidity when it's most vital. For example, an analysis of the 2010 flash crash shows it was worsened by HFTs fleeing their positions once volatility i
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by yscale 13y ago
They already did, but many people are satisfied with the Apple app and wouldn't appreciate being forced to switch to a different and not-meaningfully-better app.