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by gnaritas 9y ago
> There is no risk involved in HFT frontrunning. False. If there were no risk, it would be illegal, and your'e still tossing out that incorrect term without explanation as to what you mean by it since you clearly can't mean the
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, front running is risk free because it uses inside information, that's why it's illegal. Trying to trade faster than someone else is not risk free, requires guessing, is gambling, and is not illegal, and is thus not front runn
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Healthy competition optimizes for value, HFT is just optimizing for profit. Value is measured by profit, if what the HFT's were offering was of no value, there would be no profit in it as no one would buy their liquidity. HFT sell
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> I'd say that you are assuming that optimizing for price is good, No, capitalism assumes that. HFT traders offer a product to the free market, they sell liquidity and they do it cheaper than their old school competition, there are
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by gnaritas 9y ago
HFT doesn't front run trades, that's a misconception and really just a way to slander HFT as evil. Calling their misconceptions legitimate is an abuse of language. Front-running is a crime, it has an actual meaning and you are mi
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> mathematically oriented i.e. the blackboard indoctrinated. It's much harder to unlearn something than to learn something, you have to show them what they think is "natural" isn't, it's just what they were taugh
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And every business does everything it can to not have to do that, it works when there's choice and price transparency, markets fail without the right ingredients and healthcare is certainly one of the markets the free market has failed
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> the entire system is designed around maximizing billing Our entire world is built that way, it isn't unique to medicine.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
No, that's not changing the behavior of the existing tools everyone uses and aren't going to stop using. You can't say correct when you're not actually agreeing with his point.
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> by switching to whitespace/geometry for syntactic structure and you suddenly have the dream language. Nope, you've just made it awful, white-space with syntactic meaning is just god-awful. It's the worse thing about Pyth
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Smalltalk and Lisp work that way as well; operator precedence is an illogical hangover from the blackboard and chalk era; it's a needless complication that greatly simplifies both the language and understanding when removed.
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His point was it isn't a technological improvement, it's something that's existed for hundreds of years, he didn't claim they were good.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
I'd say you don't really understand what you're critiquing; you think those things are bad because you heard they were, from someone else who likely doesn't understand it either. There's absolutely nothing wrong wi
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Not exactly, the Paypal transparent redirect one still bounces you through paypal's URL; the Stripe one never leaves your domain.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Correct, and the big reason for that is it means you don't have to be PCI compliant since the card never touches your server, only stripes. That's why Stripe blew up, Paypal had no such offering for allowing you to use your own c
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Sure, but that's why we use frameworks to begin with, to create such abstractions. My point was the main attack vector many web apps suffer from are merely due to frameworks that leave too much to the developer. Abstracting page to pag
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> The main problem is that web apps have a huge surface of attack, a huge part of any web application is handling untrusted user input. That's not actually true; not all web frameworks work by having pages that parse query params on
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Agreed.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> Abiogenesis seems to be the least likely scenario in the formation of life Yet we know it happened, because life exists, and it didn't spring from magic so it must have sprung from non-life. Random chance is a hell of a search al
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> That seems unlikely of lifeforms arising from independent abiogenesis events. Not at all, you're presuming there are many different ways life could work, that might not be the case at all. It's entirely possible there'
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> The market optimized for a better solution for consumers, and that solution was cheaper labor and automation. While not optimizing for the externality that those consumers are also the labor that's displaced thus destroying their
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Again, you're missing the point of the command pattern. It is not replaceable by a first class function. I'm well aware of what first class functions are, what they can and can't do, and yes in the most trivial cases at run
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by gnaritas 9y ago
An easy to make yet baseless accusation, how childish.
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by gnaritas 9y ago
> The Visitor pattern mostly addresses the shortcomings of the type system (i.e no "match" statement). The visitor pattern addresses doing multiple dispatch in a single dispatch language. > The Command pattern, in its most b
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by gnaritas 9y ago
You mean misrepresent the topic and play off bad programming as if OO were the problem; you can write shitty code in any language in any paradigm. Java was verbose because it was Java and it lacked many features other language had to remov
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Yes, misrepresenting minor bumps in a downtrend as "crime is going up and out of control" is fear mongering. We saw this lie continually used in the presidential campaign to mislead the right into thinking crime is out of control
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Of course, because UBI itself isn't an accepted concept yet; once it becomes one, the natural result of rolling it out will be the elimination of all other welfare programs in favor of the UBI. It's a better abstraction, and good
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by gnaritas 9y ago
Lets not kid ourselves, hiding lambda's is one of the primary uses of macros in Lisp (obviously not the only). Yes, you're hiding the "how", we don't disagree there, but my point was that such syntactic abstraction
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by gnaritas 9y ago
It is totally something to be dismissive about because violent crime is firmly in a downtrend, that a year here or there has a slight uptick does not change the trend and is entirely irrelevant. To say violent crime is up at all is to be d
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They already are; google a bit, you're behind the times.

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