mrchicity

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by mrchicity 9y ago
This is a known issue that only affects early revisions of Ryzen CPUs under specific workloads, so it's unlikely to appear in new ones like the mobile Ryzen. If you're affected, AMD will RMA your chip for free. And AMD isn't
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by mrchicity 9y ago
Check whether your chip is affected by the segfault bug. It affects Ryzen CPUs, but not Threadrippers or Epycs. It's a free RMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6ubmd1/ryzen_compilati... If yo
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by mrchicity 9y ago
Panther was a one-man shop that did nothing but market manipulation. Yes, they used automation but for every Panther, there are 1000 manual traders being fined by CME for spoofing every year. Automation doesn't imply state of the art H
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by mrchicity 9y ago
Layering, Spoofing and Momentum Ignition are not "HFT Strategies." They're illegal market manipulation techniques, most often used by manual traders. You don't need to be ultra fast to bully prices around or enter large
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by mrchicity 9y ago
This is evidence that we should invest more in early childhood enrichment and healthy food for the poor, so everyone can reach their potential. Genetics determine the capability of your engine, but you still need to feed it with gas. It doe
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by mrchicity 9y ago
Of course. There's rarely a single cause for anything. But in today's world, real systematic discrimination in hiring and employment isn't likely to be the main driver at places like Google. When you're selecting for ind
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by mrchicity 9y ago
Is that really true though? Where I've worked, almost everyone was from an upper class or upper middle class background, grew up in a handful of superzip suburbs like Atherton/Scarsdale or high COL cities like NY, stable family li
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by mrchicity 9y ago
How is that racist? Racist is "I think all Mexicans are dumb, so I won't hire any or even give them an interview. I hate Mexicans." Racism is not "Groups of humans evolved dramatically different physical characteristics,
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by mrchicity 9y ago
Intent. How do you differentiate hacking from legitimate access? You're just sending byte streams to the server and it decided to give you access to something, after all. The reason it's illegal or banned on normal exchanges is be
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by mrchicity 9y ago
Most brokers charge some all-in commission per share to clients. If you take away the rebates, brokers will simply raise commissions to compensate. Whether a fee is passed through or not is irrelevant. Brokers don't pass through direct
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by mrchicity 10y ago
I've tried work-sample testing with middling results: -The more hoops a candidate has to jump through, the more likely they are to bail out of your recruiting funnel. This is especially bad for college/postgrad recruiting when you
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by mrchicity 10y ago
Because what good can come from discussing that topic? The only reasons to broach it are to a.) troll and/or b.) agitate for some horrific policy proposals. He's not an academic researcher. Don't you think it's odd for s
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by mrchicity 10y ago
In a two-party system, few people agree with every policy in someone's platform. I voted for Clinton but disagreed with many of her views and actions. Oftentimes people are voting based on a single very important issue or for the lesse
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by mrchicity 10y ago
Rolex is a fine brand. It's a "safe" choice in the mechanical watch world. Not super high-end. Not total BS schmaltz wrapped around an off the shelf ETA movement. What it reminds me of most as far as products go is a vintage
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by mrchicity 10y ago
Exactly. Unless you can show that the price continues to move against your losing positions by more than their cost to liquidate, you shouldn't do it. Your screw-up was putting the bad trade on in the first place. I'm especially s
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by mrchicity 10y ago
Markets are only zero-sum on a transactional level, in isolation. Yes for every buyer there's a seller and for every winner over some time scale, there's a loser. But in the broader context of the entire real world, a well-functio
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by mrchicity 10y ago
Can't you say that about any profession, especially other forms of middlemen? Does it really matter if your grocer's motivation is having a nice house and good schools for his kids vs. feeding people and providing a market for far
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by mrchicity 10y ago
It gives a false sense of security in cases like this. The biggest losses you want to liquidate will always happen in cases where it's impossible or extremely costly to do so: company has merger announcement overnight while you're
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by mrchicity 10y ago
By general service do you mean a system where response time isn't especially important? Using TCP to fan-out messages in a PubSub pattern is going to waste network and compute resources in a serious way. It can easily exhaust capacity
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by mrchicity 10y ago
Think about happens if indexes don't pre-announce their changes. Is their market impact larger or smaller than if people know about it and "front-run"? Suddenly someone wants to trade 10x daily turnover in a small-cap stock r
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by mrchicity 10y ago
If you invest in ETFs, you are certainly being helped by automated arbitrage traders. These products rarely trade more than a cent from their true value because computers can calculate the hedging basket almost instantly. Yes, they have a p
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by mrchicity 10y ago
That "mere facilitation" is extremely valuable. Do you think stock exchanges themselves are valuable and worth paying for? They bring buyers and sellers together in a centralized place, merely facilitating a pre-existing desire to
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by mrchicity 10y ago
Yes it's an awesome job, and not just because of the money. I've worked for small shops that weren't very profitable and didn't really make a lot those years, but still loved the work. I could see derivatives pricing bei
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by mrchicity 10y ago
I think the individual retail trader is almost always outgunned informationally when it comes to intraday trades. Most short-term price action is driven by order flow and cross-asset correlations, which machines are very good at trading. Th
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by mrchicity 10y ago
Reg NMS says you cannot code a system or intentional device to delay access to a quotation. Nasdaq had tried doing this on one of their smaller markets in software many years ago, but the SEC did not approve their proposal. Geographic or ne
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by mrchicity 10y ago
I don't think people on the floor were necessarily all crooked or doing something illegal, but that market structure doesn't invite fierce competition. You'd see the same people every day and go to drinks with them. There was
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by mrchicity 10y ago
In the pre-HFT era there were manual day traders doing spreading, arbitrage and short-term speculation based on the order book. A famous example would be the SOES bandits of the 90s. They would pick-off slow NASDAQ market makers and offer t
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by mrchicity 10y ago
HFT is mostly doing the same thing that banks, prop traders, specialists, or hedge funds were doing manually in the past. They risk their own capital to transfer liquidity across time (market-making), place (cross-market arbitrage) and prod
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by mrchicity 10y ago
This isn't true. HFTs are very active and profitable in markets where there are no rebates (some US stock exchanges and most dark pools, futures markets, most overseas exchanges). Even in markets where you have no fragmentation at all,
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by mrchicity 10y ago
I understand it but still hate doing the dance. Negotiation doesn't end once you've started a job either. If you want good projects, promotions, higher compensation, you usually have to negotiate for those too. Sometimes managers

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