Price discovery in markets, and economic boom-bust cycles are a societal/tech problem going back hundreds if not thousands of years. HFT is only part of the sol

Price discovery in markets, and economic boom-bust cycles are a societal/tech problem going back hundreds if not thousands of years. HFT is only part of the solution (or should be), and I don't think its silly. And even if it were, sometimes there's just no getting around the silly/thorny issues (makefiles anyone?) before you work on the important stuff directly.