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by bidirectional 5y ago
How? No offence but it just sounds like conspiratorial nonsense based on some scary sounding terms. Payment for order flow is an example of the incentives of retail traders, retail brokers and HFT market makers aligning. The market makers a
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by bidirectional 5y ago
How is Soros an insider on British government policy?
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Are they? Spreads have tightened massively since the advent of HFT which has knock-on effects for the small investor both in terms of cheaper personal trading and lower costs for those managing their retirement/mutual funds (see Vangua
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by bidirectional 5y ago
The trope is not 'castles with towers' though, but thin, tall, vertical structures.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Donating all of the proceeds to the victims of what he explicitly calls the war in Ukraine is quite a statement. It's not something one would do if they wanted to remain in Putin's graces.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
That doesn't matter, someone will pay it. They won't struggly to find a buyer. Owning one of the greatest teams in the world in the most fashionable part of one of the world's major city is basically just worth it as a vanity
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Presuming because of your use of pounds: do you seriously think our prison system is particularly rehabilitative?
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by bidirectional 5y ago
How is an interactive tutorial bad?
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Yes, they make a few billion between them in an ultra-competitive, expensive to compete in environment. My wording wasn't the best, but what I meant is that HFT firms only compete with other HFT firms. They're basically all battli
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Why are they a bad thing?
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Even with DB schemes their funding often relies on exposure to equities.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
They definitely haven't. The paper I think you're alluding to showed that monkeys picking 30 random stocks from a 1000 stock universe performed better than a capitalisation-weighted index of the 1000 stocks. However the former wil
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by bidirectional 5y ago
HFT is irrelevant, those firms basically compete with themselves and there's really not all that much money in it anyway. They're just providing liquidity and can basically be ignored 99% of the time.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
The chain is Solana. I've no idea why the other commenter is so adamant on not naming it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-03/solana-po...
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Also interesting how Scottish postboxes don't have the cypher EIIR for the present queen, as she is not considered II by many Scots, and the boxes would be repeatedly vandalised/blown up. I believe though that Churchill introduced
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Tech valuations outstrip clothing valuations so they need to pose as a tech company.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Ilya Suskever is not just an employee, they're C-suite and notable enough to have a Wikipedia page. Obviously people earn millions per year, but they're generally pretty notable and rare.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
As the wiki page itself notes though: > On calculators, it is printed as "log", but mathematicians usually mean natural logarithm (logarithm with base e ≈ 2.71828) rather than common logarithm when they write "log".
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Ah you're correct. Annoying how Google interprets log(x) as base-10 (but more shame on me for not realising that e^5 is obviously not 100000). In my experience everyone uses log and ln interchangeable outside of lessons at school.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Only primes are valid guesses, just like how in Wordle only English words found in a dictionary are valid.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
log(100000) is 5, so approximately 1 in 5 numbers below 100k is prime. Obviously those in the range 10000-99999 are less dense, but primes are still surprisingly common.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Monads are pretty trivial to understand if you learn some Haskell first, and kind of pointless if you don't. The actual definition of a monad in the Haskell standard library is a dozen lines or so of simple code.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Basically every language has some kind of opt-in lazy evaluation, Rust is strict by default as is basically every remotely mainstream language bar Haskell.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Is it corruption? Lobbying is legal and it is obviously in office landlord's interest to have people working in offices.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
The totally unnecessary restrictions on the freedoms of people in Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland look really egregious now. England basically did nothing and it was fine.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
Oh yeah occupancy is not great, but a rollback to plan A will make little difference. Most firms are still operating an optional return to office policy and very few changed that as a result of the switch to plan B.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
The Spectator is definitely not a tabloid, and that's hardly a defense of her actions. It's just Rachel Johnson namedropping in her society column.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
The City got barely any quieter pre/post this 'mandate'. It was basically ignored anyway. Also it's just a rollback to plan A which was in place for months, plan B was only in force since mid-December.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
> the British tabloid press defense of convicted sex abuser Ghislaine Maxwell. I haven't seen a single article that could reasonably be called a defense of Maxwell.
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by bidirectional 5y ago
How is Activision Blizzard not a business unit?

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