> The corporate "organisms" have caused humans to erect massive projects to shave a few milliseconds from HFT, for example. I will never understand peoples obs

> The corporate "organisms" have caused humans to erect massive projects to shave a few milliseconds from HFT, for example. I will never understand peoples obsession with HFT. It is a shockingly small industry when compared to what it does (one of the reasons pay is so good). The bias is totally unwarranted: if a retailer were to come out and discuss how engineering efforts that improved response times increased sales, we would all read and congratulate them. But when HFT do it, they are lambasted.