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by gd1 12y ago
>Eyestrain and standing around all day is definitely preferable to a job where ... start vomiting and die two days later. I too share your fascination with the nuclear incidents, but I felt that the takeaway point of the article was tha
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by gd1 12y ago
Very good point. There's no reason to think we can solve the Halting Problem any more than a TM can, so the 'solved' BBs mentioned in the article are only solved in the sense that we puny humans had a look at all possible pr
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by gd1 12y ago
>One of the most common mistake we people make is to think of intellectuals as some higher beings. Don't worry, I can assure I'm not making that mistake.
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by gd1 12y ago
Wrong. Zero. Do the math, they're not even close.
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by gd1 12y ago
Can you quote me some stats on how much the equivalent middle men made in earlier decades? Both absolute and relative to the size of the market?
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by gd1 12y ago
That's pretty simple to answer. The smaller the spread, the less going into the pocket of middlemen. Which is where we are now. Less going into the pockets of middlemen than ever before. >And are these benefits worth the massive
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by gd1 12y ago
And also, interestingly, climate science, where they face a similar problem in having a single enormously complex system that they can't bifurcate and run experiments on. To be fair, even nutrition and digestion and neuroscience/
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by gd1 12y ago
Do you mean a carbon dioxide tax?
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by gd1 12y ago
>There isn't anything on the market today that has been proven to work in environments like this and has the tooling to back it up. Here you go: http://kx.com/
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by gd1 12y ago
What you describe is called 'slow playing' in poker, not bluffing. Put it this way, if spoofing (bluffing) were legalized in markets, how do you think it would work out for the little guy? Who has the advantage in no-limit Texas
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by gd1 12y ago
You seem to be mixing up different levels of wanting and intention. I may not want to eat my brussel sprouts for dinner, but when I poke them with a fork and raise them towards my mouth I am intending to eat them. Not pull them away at th
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by gd1 12y ago
That's bizarre. So let's say AAPL is trading at $120, and you put in a limit order to buy it at $110, then you should never be allowed to cancel it? How long does the order sit there for? What if AAPL's price goes up to $4
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by gd1 12y ago
>95 percent of high-frequency trader orders are cancelled So what. 99.9999999% of the pixels blatted onto your screen aren't looked at. Why do you care? Let's say I'm making a market in a derivative product (A), one wher
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by gd1 12y ago
>So if I offer a trade, and then withdraw the trade because I decide I don't like the idea anymore (or 'any other reason')... that's legal. And routine to do on microsecond timescales. Yes that's right. So quick
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by gd1 12y ago
These are limit orders under discussion, you seem to be confusing them with market orders.
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by gd1 12y ago
I don't write the rules, I'm just telling you what they are. I guess it boils down to the idea that bluffing is banned in financial markets. What differentiates making a bluff from a regular raise in poker? You have to 'mak
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by gd1 12y ago
>So they really were genuine offers to sell and buy shares. They weren't genuine, that's the point. They were offers made with the express intention and hope that they never get filled. The orders from high frequency traders i
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by gd1 12y ago
The issue would be that market makers would need to inject their orders (quotes) at a greater distance from the mid-price, in order to protect themselves against market movement during the minimum lifetime you propose. If my bid and offer
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by gd1 12y ago
No, it is definitely fraud. The rule is that you may not enter an order (quote) that you have no intention of filling. You're perfectly entitled to change your mind afterwards (for whatever reason) and then cancel the order, but if
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by gd1 12y ago
True enough, but the positive response you feel to a red barn is just as illogical as the negative response you feel towards the word 'industrial' as applied to barns or fans. Do you see the irony in an article debunking these fee
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by gd1 12y ago
My wife is one, so I somehow doubt you have a clue.
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by gd1 12y ago
Do you think the chickens give a shit what colour the barn is?
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by gd1 12y ago
Don't think I was 'arguing' anything really. Just commenting on the irony. Nature tends to be brutish and nasty, quite the opposite to the picture that your typical urban-living organic food enthusiast has.
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by gd1 12y ago
"They usually live in aviaries: massive industrial barns" Oooh, industrial barns... "And often, Kastel says, industrial fans that suck..." Oooh, industrial fans. As opposed to the ones that grow on trees. "One
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by gd1 12y ago
Remember, we're talking about the outliers here, the tail end of the distribution founding billion dollar companies. Here's a thought experiment. Take two normally distributed populations with the same mean. But one of them has
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by gd1 12y ago
I don't think there was any discussion in the link about how they would get back into orbit? Did I miss it?
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by gd1 12y ago
Not so sure about that, these surgeons are performing the same procedure again and again. And being compared to surgeons who also perform the same procedure. We don't tend to write the exact same code repeatedly. Or the exact same co
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by gd1 12y ago
>Pervasive cashless transactions, years ahead of ... even the UK I've shuttled back and forth between the two countries for seven years now, and I can tell you, unequivocally, that you're speaking out of your bumhole.
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by gd1 12y ago
>among the four big banks, which provides stability I suppose "stability" is one upside of a government supported quasi-monopoly. Australian banks are an absolute disgrace. I say that as an Australian who returns home from ti
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by gd1 12y ago
I'm sorry, I can't really continue discussion with you since I've already spent 3 months worth of karma on this thread. My apologies.

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