fr0sty

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by fr0sty 13y ago
How does the HFT know the size of the buy order? Alter the scenario here: 1. Buyer wants 25 shares, buys all available shares at his limit price on exchange A. 2. HFTs 1-n see the entire quote taken at Exchange A and rush to buy all availab
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Assuming things work the way you describe (they don't, but I'll play along) if there is no HFT involved how would you propose that this situation be resolved? There is $.10 of surplus here. Who (if anyone) should get it, how, and
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> Knight had test code that got flipped into production. This is not correct. Read the SEC report on the incident if you have time, it is pretty in depth: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.p
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> so that when a buyer crosses the spread in Chicago at the same time as a seller crosses the spread in New York, the HFTer can arbitrage the transactions with the foreknowledge that both trades will clear immediately. Can you explain th
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by fr0sty 13y ago
There is a real and meaningful difference between popularizing and fictionalizing though. Some amount of gloss is needed to keep things tidy but if/when that crosses the line then the author is doing a disservice to his audience. This
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by fr0sty 13y ago
So "Because it is on the NYT website" is your answer? The excerpt from the book is largely the story from a single point of view, I don't see a lot of corroborating quotes, zero footnotes, and the facts are too convenient to
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> It's well researched. On what basis do you make that assertion? Just curious...
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Wouldn't an easy way to find this guy be to publish an altered version of his designs and see if you get a CnD letter?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Funny you should mention that: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> Except the food which, on the whole, just isn't healthy. Care to elaborate? Assuming the Walmart has their standard grocery section they will sell fresh fruits/vegetables, meat, dairy, eggs, grains and the like. It may not be
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> Only a nutritionally deficient person could shop solely at TJ. I shop almost exclusively at Trader Joe's* and am not (to my knowledge at least) nutritionally deficient. I get fruits, vegetables, dairy, meats, eggs, bread/cere
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Were the thefts you heard about from container ships like this one?: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Eleonora_...
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> we'll totally automate all this How? A driver-less truck pulls up to the front of a corner store. Then what? Someone still has to take the (correct) product from the truck, load it on a hand cart, take it into each shop and put it
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Don't forget reset and checkout. Loads of fun.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> I've had untracked files straight up deleted because I didn't include them in my stash. Do you recall the actual circumstances? That shouldn't happen in the normal course of things...
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Why would you recommend reset --soft ? To get back to where you started (changes not added to the index, since you are doing commit -a) you should do `git reset --mixed HEAD~` (or drop the --mixed argument as it's the default).
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Even with "gold level" insurance a ride in an ambulance is $$$$. If your injury is not life threatening taking alternate transport to the Emergency Room is perfectly acceptable.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
At times I am tempted to just order $25 of dead weight so I can get the add-on item and ship everything else back for credit. I see what they are trying to do, namely get you to cough up $20 more to buy things you 'may' need but n
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Have you tried calling? Their phone support is unusually good in my experience.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Do you take pains to disable the various spell-checkers that exist or do you just use software which does not have them on by default?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> It's the same reason I bought a Martin over a 100 dollar import acoustic guitar. The difference between the $99 (or even $199) plywood special and even an entry-level solid-wood guitar (starting closer to $500) is much more than j
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Indeed. "working for exposure" is basically a swear word in some photography circles.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
If you aren't un-following merely on principle, you can turn off re-tweets per followee. I find the feature very useful.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
I read through this a while back and it is an interesting exploration of the whole Geocentric/Heliocentric dust-up (or smackdown as they call it): http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smac..
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by fr0sty 13y ago
According to the wikipedia page on WAAS[0], regular GPS is accurate (95% of measurements) < 2.5m horizontal and with WAAS is is .9m horizontal. There is also an FAA graph of GPS measurement accuracy[1] which I'm guessing is the sour
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by fr0sty 13y ago
He is correct, that the value 16 given to MID$ as a 'start' will yield an "F" because the 'start' argument to the MID$ function is one-based. This is the string: A$ = "0123456789ABCDEF" And
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by fr0sty 13y ago
No alcohol, tobacco, coffee or tea are the big ones that I can think of.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
not-for-profit and tax-exempt are different things. Tax-exempt entities are also not-for-profit but not all non-profit entities are tax-exempt (Political parties, professional organizations, the NFL,...).
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Spotify Premium user here too. To my knowledge the two albums available today (and not before today, as far as I can tell) are the only tracks available that are by Led Zeppelin and not a tribute/cover band.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
I'm guessing "The Beatles".

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