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by cturner 3y ago
Many methods of foreign exchange are. Insurance can be. If anything, it is equities that is unusual, because that market is designed to be accessible to retail investors, with significant consumer protections.
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by cturner 4y ago
There is a wealth of precedence. For the last twenty years there has been a network of people smugglers in south east asia who fire up whenever the Australian government takes its eye off the ball. I am currently in Malta and have had sever
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by cturner 4y ago
(not an american citizen or resident) Open borders is not a serious public policy position for a western nation. Western culture is difficult to bootstrap, and requires effort to maintain. In the US, civics are taught to all of your childre
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by cturner 4y ago
His sons did turn him in - your own comment says as much. The public evidence suggests they turned him in as soon as they learnt of it. The case has not been made that the sons were complicit, they should be presumed innocence. That other p
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by cturner 4y ago
Graphics. You may not need to have a graphics card in nodes once they are installed. So you may find you can get a single low end card and use that to install each host. Power and heat. Will you have enough power for the nodes? What is the
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by cturner 4y ago
The gus offloads audio processing, whereas the sb16 requires more work from the cpu. Hence, the 3d scene at the end of Second Reality should be smoother on gus assuming a typical system of the era, e.g. 486.
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by cturner 4y ago
"Regardless of scenario" limit your options. If you are shipping a binary to your users that will never be able to get updates, your cautiousness would be justified. There are other situations where it will needlessly limits optio
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by cturner 4y ago
Bulding consistent-style pixel art by hand is real work. But AI may have lowered the bar. Earlier thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012806#31029663
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by cturner 4y ago
He is explaining an experience. Usually museums have no effect on him, he cannot appreciate, for reasons stated. This he did appreciate, and he explains it.
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by cturner 4y ago
Long-term governance is hard. I have been thinking recently, how could you design governance for a high-end nursing home so that the facility perpetually serve the rotation and interests of its residents. Without governance, such a facility
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by cturner 4y ago
China does not have such control. But to your question - > If they do, why ever actually invade? The power of the CCP surfs on top of a mythology. When ethnic Chinese people run successful, free, democratic countries it undermines that m
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by cturner 4y ago
> The USAF even went as far as to procure new F-15s, the -EX model, > because F-35 production wasn't keeping up. Is that the reason? I thought it was the need to counter the Chinese strategy of mass producing fighters with an ide
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by cturner 4y ago
US dollars don't have to be held by US entities. There are US dollars held on balance sheets around the world by non-US entities. During the cold war, the Soviet Union held USD in non-US accounts. Countries don't ask for US dollar
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by cturner 4y ago
> I think it might just happen that buying banana from somewhere keeps them poor. What would happen if there was no market for those bananas?
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by cturner 4y ago
Over the years, I have built some internal apps by nesting aiohttp in a python process. Usually this starts with me having an existing process and finding I want to add a web interface to it, for example, as a dashboard. What would be the a
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by cturner 4y ago
Australia is a gas supplier to Japan and has headed down the road towards nationalising its gas sector recently, indirectly through local supply mandates and price fixing. Exploration projects have been canceled and frozen there in the last
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by cturner 4y ago
I had a major troubles with linux suspend on a 2021 T14 - not a cheap system - and did not get past them. Moved to x1, no problems. Colleague has the T14, still running windows.
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by cturner 4y ago
I agree that fat finger trades should stick. That is not what clearing and settlement are about. They are about liquidity and stability. In countries with well designed systems, equities settlement is an atomic action. So, for a transaction
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by cturner 4y ago
Multi-day settlement is good for market stability. If there is an error, it gets picked up in clearing. If there is a catastrophe, the regulator can cancel the day's trading. T+2 would be an improvement, but less than that would create
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by cturner 4y ago
> Europe has shown that reg NMS is not needed and doesn’t benefit investors. I don't think Europe has shown this, or should be seen as an role-model for execution quality. The European model benefits national champion exchanges and
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by cturner 4y ago
It's an enterprise thing. I have seen these dynamics with database vendors: databases are sticky, clever license agreements. A commercial database vendor system gave us several free licenses (or cores or something like that) for their
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by cturner 4y ago
The European parliament set laws that standardise matters across the union, and this can only work if it overrules national governments. European regulators create policy. Legal matters can be appealed to the European justice system. The go
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by cturner 4y ago
What is your goal? Is it better markets, or getting rid of market makers? You seem fixated on the latter, to the extent that you will define away the quality measures of a market to get there. The vampire/victim labelling you use is un
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by cturner 4y ago
My error, thanks for the correction.
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by cturner 4y ago
"Yet when I go somewhere with no liquidity and a huge spread.." Someone who wants to buy or sell goes to a market in order execute at the best price achievable, and they may be under time pressure. If the spreads are wider at one
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by cturner 4y ago
Anything built on the adversarial model is zero-sum - courtrooms, parliaments. But the systems have utility.
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by cturner 4y ago
That would lead to wider spreads. Then, liquidity would move to another country that did not impose that rule.
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by cturner 4y ago
Different trade-offs. It is much easier to pursue cache-efficiency in a cooperative multitasking setting than with preempt threads.
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by cturner 4y ago
The toy model is the idea that a bank gets deposit from one customer and loans it to another. This is not how it works. If you go to a bank for a loan, they do a risk assessment of you, and then make some marks on a ledger. As a result of t
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by cturner 4y ago
I have read a fair bit of pkd and found Valis an unsatisfying struggle. Radio Free Albemuth is an earlier attempt at similar ideas and is accessible.

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