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Google patents ad tech linking restaurant to taxi ride(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by elemeno 13y ago|0 comments
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by elemeno 13y ago
Oh, absolutely. In my arena, finance, there's no way you'd use your own staff - it would go straight to external auditors who'd conduct the investigation or contract specialist firms to investigate. Of course, not always goin
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by elemeno 13y ago
Because fixing the problem isn't just a matter of changing the headline back to what it was supposed to read. Someone entering your system, which is supposed to be secure, and changing the headline on your front page mean that you&#x27
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Reverse Engineering Strike Commander(fabiensanglard.net)
1 points by elemeno 13y ago|0 comments
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by elemeno 13y ago
Simple - a few thousand (if it is that many) people out of several million people having a problem is not always evidence of a real problem but rather proof that with a large enough install base some people will always have problems and it
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by elemeno 13y ago
Your second point is also a good way to deal with late payment penalties - something which it can be hard to add to a contract (as in, $x if you pay within 30 days $x + 10% if you're late). Selling it as a discount for paying early is
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by elemeno 13y ago
In Summary - The Author, due to having recently switched from being a full-time to a freelance worker, cannot prove that he has the ability to pay the mortgage he's applying for and thus his application was denied. The rest of the arti
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by elemeno 13y ago
They're almost certainly not expected to work to anything near the level of precision that these sorts of high-end CNC machines do - judging by the comments in this thread, you're talking about micrometer level precision. They are
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Overturning the Myth of Valley Girl Speak(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by elemeno 13y ago|0 comments
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by elemeno 13y ago
Druce, Congratulations on the re-launch, the site looks good and definitely one I'll be keeping an eye on, especially since I likely fall into being part of the target market being in the Capital Markets space. My one main bit of feedb
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by elemeno 13y ago
The Knight Capital incident isn't unique to HFT firms - any firm that does automated trading can fall foul of similar problems.
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by elemeno 13y ago
Manipulate is a weasel word. Every trade will affect the price of a share but that's not manipulation, that's a functioning market. Unless you can explain why a trade made by HFT is somehow more devious or underhanded than a trade
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by elemeno 13y ago
In my experience HFT is a boogeyman. It's not well understood, and it's easy to blame for ills real and imagined - in part because you only tend to hear about it when something goes wrong and a Knight Capital type event happens, a
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by elemeno 13y ago
The conclusion wasn't that this was caused by HFT but because NASDAQ and the NYSE only showed trades that had a size of 100 or greater in their public feeds. Since a 100 shares of APPL is worth $50,000+, there's a lot of trades be
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by elemeno 13y ago
Since a comment claiming to come from the CEO of PivateSky is dead, it seems worth re-posting so that more people can read it :- " This is Brian, the CEO. Yea, it was a nice round number out of the air. But it probably wasn't far
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by elemeno 13y ago
From https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/In_the_interests_of_th... - "The House will notice that the Bill restricts the activities of the SIS and GCHQ for safeguarding the economic well-being of the country to t
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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce - How the Sun Rose on the Silicon Valley(stanford.edu)
3 points by elemeno 13y ago|0 comments
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One day in the life of Mikhail Khodorkovsky(ft.com)
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The Amazon Whisperer(fastcompany.com)
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by elemeno 13y ago
If we're going to be accurate, it's - "You can't beat politics with new technology all the time. Sometimes you have to actually make sure that politics are in line with what people want. A lot of people are giving up on
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Jacob Wallenstein Is the Greatest Science-Fiction Writer to Never Have Lived(tabletmag.com)
1 points by elemeno 13y ago|0 comments
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by elemeno 13y ago
Not to say that it's not true, but in a decade in finance I've never heard of anyone having gone through Officer Selection to help their career prospects. If you want to have a good start in finance, having a degree (preferably a
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by elemeno 13y ago
The parent comment should probably be read as 'research and development' - working for IBM's research arm, Microsoft Research etc.
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Wasteland released on GoG(gog.com)
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How a close call in the ER turned a young doctor into a surgical visionary(slate.com)
3 points by elemeno 13y ago|0 comments
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Why an 80% market share might only represent half of smartphone users(theguardian.com)
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by elemeno 13y ago
It's just a form of hiring bonus. While it's not so important in and of itself compared to the salary being offered it's something extra to consider when looking at the whole package being offered especially if you're co
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The Theory of Interstellar Trade(standupeconomist.com)
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The Course of Their Lives(jsonline.com)
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The man who makes £100,000 watches(bbc.co.uk)
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