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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Because it comes down to balancing rights, and determining which ones are absolute, and how we weight other rights in relation to each other. So the right to a family life (to use the EU term) is held to be very important, and thus the bar
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
No they won't. Plenty of good employers understand work life balance, they understand that output doesn't linearly increase with time, especially in development. Good employers push their employees in terms of not letting them coast, giving
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
The 80:20 rule (Pareto principle) fits into this as well. You can make easy inroads into each individual project if things are divided up - getting any of them to a viable state however starts to bog down. Productivity isn't linear. Especia
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
I do - but a 'proper' long term investor that cares about the price in 20 years time. The quoted exchange price is an average of the buy/sell offers available, there is no guarantee if you try and trade that you will pay that amount. Especi
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
But long term investors don't care about the "clip" that HFTs take, they care about the 80% rise in price over the next 5 years. Rebalancing portfolios again isn't something where getting a few basis points off the HFT best execution price
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
But doesn't that mean you're at the mercy of the professional HFTs who can "front run" anyone running on your platform?
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
It isn't just about liquidity, though it does. But it also reduces the bid/ask spread, i.e. price discovery. The HFT trader may make a tiny profit when it processes a trade from me, but I've benefited because I can buy/sell at a price close
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
I'm curious about the "best trading platform" claim - what is going to make it better than any other? Especially as the real High Frequency Traders are busy spending fortunes on placing their hardware as close to the exchange as physically
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
HFT isn't necessarily a scourge - if anything it discourages people from short term investing, which is a Good Thing. Long term investing isn't affected by HFT, except in providing more liquidity at the point you want to exit any position.
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
But they're not predicting a single piece of tech, they're predicting the success of a platform, which is really Amazon's commitment and engineering capability. You can't predict what features AWS will have in 2-3 years, but you can predict
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Amazon's is based on an assumption that one day it will start to take profits, and big ones at that. Expanding into a service sector where it could have large profit margins (selling eBooks is another area) is integral to that.
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Did you use any other networks to link to the story? Did you tweet the HN url? Or post it to social media? Did you email anyone who you follow/respect and ask them to share their thoughts - with the HN thread linked? Your make it sound like
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Very apt given I was just moaning (zombie?) to my colleague about this. The problem is how you get your pride back though - especially when management continually gets in the way.
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
This has made me sad because we're too far down a far uglier, and less functional route at work to change.
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
The article is off on the magnitude of the fine - $550 million not billion. Still very large but not quite GDP of a nation size. It's a bit much to label it a scam based on the evidence in the article itself. The target price of an exchange
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Japan - they've stopped their nuclear plants and are therefore in need of imported energy.
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Plea bargaining in the UK is very different though, the bargain is around pleading to some charges to get others dropped - with the judge determining the sentence. And with sentencing guidelines published for all common offences the prosecu
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
It would be nice if they allowed submitting many screenshots, approval of all of those, and then choosing which ones to display. It wouldn't be quite as useful but allow some change.
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Doesn't have to be the case. My current employer consistently offers 10% pay rises. But then that's in a non-public company that is financially secure. Less than inflation pay rises are something you should only accept as an alternative to
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
The article failed to mention the pitiful level of cuts that have actually occurred! The USA has cut further and quicker, it is nowhere near the level of Irish or Greek austerity. The UK is not experiencing austerity. The NHS (major spender
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
But does Apple need to build that level of scale? The article makes valid points about Apple needing to beef up its web teams - but a $1bn acqhire seems excessive. Better cherry picking some top quality individuals to drive a vision and let
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Depends which start date you take for WWII - The European one of 1939, the Russian 1941 (don't ask about 39 and 40!), or the American one of late 41. Or the Chinese view that it started in 1937.
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Or go and work in that industry. I work in finance and the office has plenty of older programmers who have been trained in the theory of what they're working on. Being a good software engineer still puts you in a large group. Being a good s
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
"I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody" -James Carville
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
As someone who works in finance in Scotland there are several other factors outwith this article to consider. I know people who have left because of the inertia at some banks - systems don't improve and "workarounds" are the norm. Retail ba
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
There's the potential to try and "grow the new group" into a fun and happy place to work. As long as the regulatory guidelines don't turn out to be actually restrictive. People who enjoy the rewards (tangible and intangible) of leadership c
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Could someone in the know explain, given the costs and difficulty of a bone marrow transplant, the likelihood of this becoming a treatment if it does indeed pan out? My initial impression is that it would be very much a "rich Western countr
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
London (and the rest of the UK) had religious terrorism for over 30 years - with regular attacks by professionally trained terrorists of a kind AQ would love to have. Yet even with all that Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism apparently requir
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
It was also in the context of some European countries not co-operating with other countries to arrest/extradite terrorist suspects because they wanted a quiet life where terrorist groups didn't attack their interests.
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by cmdkeen 14y ago
Maybe, just maybe for cannabis. But meth and cocaine (including crack)? I don't think you appreciate the damage those drugs cause. The US policy on drugs is insane, but so is legalisation in a country which can't even manage to generate a p

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