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by gd1 11y ago
How and why does J.K. Rowling count as 'children's books'?
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by gd1 11y ago
Uh-huh. We're probably the only species to ever even give a fuck that we drove another species to extinction.
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by gd1 11y ago
>No it's not, since with the houses it would be easy to verify that there's no 3 houses available. The trader in the Nanex article had no way to know how many of the 24800 shares were actually available. He's trading at an
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by gd1 11y ago
>(as well as your first paragraphs) demonstrate that this "liquidity" isn't real in the first place, and gets withdrawn if anyone tries to trade on it. Where? I have explained that it is real. The confusion stems from th
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by gd1 11y ago
I think where Eric Hunsader (and Michael Lewis) go wrong is that they have a big flaw in their mental model of the market. They make the assumption that if say 500 shares are offered at exchange A, and 500 shares at exchange B, then they ar
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by gd1 11y ago
The problem with a FTT is that it is a cascading tax. Whereas a VAT or GST is charged only on the difference between input and output. I buy some wood for $10, make a table, sell it for $15, GST/VAT is 10%, so I pay out $1 buying the
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by gd1 11y ago
Which is kind of the point. If people think that rolling auctions are better than a CLOB, they are free to set up exchanges that use auctions and see if anybody trades on them. Spoiler: No one will. Or are they arguing that the government
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by gd1 11y ago
It's even dumber than that. This isn't fossilized carbon, that hasn't been a part of the carbon cycle for a few geological epochs. No, this is carbon that is an active part of the current carbon cycle, that has in just the
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by gd1 11y ago
Ha, yeah I was expecting an in-depth read on gcc's devirtualization feature.
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by gd1 11y ago
Not only that, but in the case of MSVC/Visual Studio you have a talent feedback loop as well as a financial one. They need people to be pirating it or they'll have no windows developers in the future.
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by gd1 11y ago
That's a very good point. I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but if you had any self-awareness you'd stop and ponder it. Who do you think ends up doing 'climate science'? Why?
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by gd1 11y ago
It's plenty 'racist' here in the UK (at least under the left-wing redefinition of the word racist as any mention of race at all). Chicken shops and jerk chicken are associated with the African-Caribbean population. All he&#x
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by gd1 11y ago
Hmm, so the Victorians were " Selfish, oppressive, iniquitous, abusive, racist, hypocritical, and worse". I'm curious, you mention "numerous physical and cultural genocides against native populations around the world&qu
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by gd1 11y ago
“The same law which imposes upon the husband the duty of supporting his wife, gives him a general and paramount claim to her obedience.” I bet you don't get this bit in return.
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by gd1 11y ago
I think you're a bit confused by nuclear scare-mongering. Large fusion H-bombs put out stuff all radiation. And radiation isn't very deadly anyway.
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by gd1 11y ago
Cool headline, but given the population of China, we're probably talking children of the 0.001%
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by gd1 11y ago
I believe the discrepancy comes down to whether you count opposing counterparties indivdually or not. i.e. If 6 trades involve 6 non-HFT/non electronic market-maker (referred to as 'naturals') trading against 6 other natural
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by gd1 11y ago
>Write all your code this way and soon you'll stumble with all the nastiness of manual memory management. See, this is what I never quite understand. I use C++ when I want to do C type things. Manage my own memory. Bit twiddle wi
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by gd1 11y ago
>Your scenario doesn't handle the case a market order does, i.e. close my position now. I covered that. If you really, truly, want to sell at any price(and I can't imagine why, that is terrible trading), then you set your li
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by gd1 11y ago
>To ban a market order is to tell me I'm not allowed to enter/exit a position in a single order, that's non-sense. You could carry on trading as you currently are. If a stock is trading $100/$100.1 and you want to bu
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by gd1 11y ago
Monday saw the first ever limit down halts on major equity index futures (YM/ES/NQ) on CME Globex. It was an unmitigated disaster. It happened at a critical time (heading into the cash open), and caused chaos in the ETFs that ha
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by gd1 11y ago
You realize things keep happening while your volatility interrupt is in force right? Everything else in the world keeps trading. There is no guarantee when it starts trading again that it won't open 20% down. If you don't want
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by gd1 11y ago
http://climateaudit.org/
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by gd1 11y ago
Look around you. Pick any product you like. A thousand financial transactions went into making it, all along the supply chain. Currencies were converted and hedged, iron ore and copper and crude oil futures were purchased and sold. When te
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by gd1 11y ago
No it fucking doesn't. It feeds the human race.
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by gd1 11y ago
It's pretty implausible that farming is a harmful career as well. But, oh look, there they are at number 2.
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by gd1 11y ago
>There's little risk of CO2 shortage. Every animal on the planet exhales it. Erm no. Exhaling it is just part of the carbon cycle, it doesn't make the net level in circulation go up or down, it isn't a sink or a source...
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by gd1 11y ago
From your link: "The trigger for these mass extinctions appears to be a warming of the ocean caused by a rise of carbon dioxide levels to about 1000 parts per million." That is fucking miles away. At the other end, C3 plant life
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by gd1 11y ago
From your link: "The trigger for these mass extinctions appears to be a warming of the ocean caused by a rise of carbon dioxide levels to about 1000 parts per million." That is fucking miles away. At the other end, C3 plant life
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by gd1 11y ago
I use both. R is slow as a dog, Q/KDB+ is (almost) as quick as C. R is ugly, Q/K is beautiful and elegant. R has a wealth of open-source packages, Q not so much. Best solution is to do most of your work in Q and call into R whe

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