onaraft

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by onaraft 7y ago
Ubiquiti isn't really consumer, though. They want to target enterprises and businesses. Sure, their hardware ends up in residential deployments more often than perhaps any other kind of enterprise computer stuff, but if you're not
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by onaraft 7y ago
I would argue that no matter what language you pick, adding abstraction always behaves like this: Suppose I have a thing I need to do, called X. I write a program to do X. Then later I need to do Y, and I realize that if I think of X as (A
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by onaraft 7y ago
Another factual observation is to look at Virtu's recent earnings numbers. They're basically pivoting as hard as they can to get out of speed-based HFT and into execution services, because the profitability of the former is crater
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by onaraft 7y ago
I've been looking at Redis recently as a potential solution to some caching I might want to do, and one hurdle I encountered almost immediately is: Suppose I have some function, get_members_of_group(dt, groupname). It returns a set of
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by onaraft 7y ago
Which requires a margin trading account, a non-trivial amount of trading experience, a non-trivial amount of capital, constant management, and is highly leveraged. The risk profile is totally different.
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by onaraft 7y ago
In general, you don't need to worry about Vanguard or Schwab or whoever provides your particular index fund going bankrupt. The actual assets in the fund don't go anywhere. Whoever buys the remnants of your now-presumably-dead bro
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by onaraft 7y ago
To be clear, this is a central bank thing. The part of the government issuing debt doesn't technically have a say in it. The Federal Reserve bank sets the Federal Funds rate. This is their "target rate" they will try to hit.
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by onaraft 7y ago
The gist of it is that if you have 1, 10, or even 100 thousand dollars in cash, sure you can sit that in your bank and probably earn ~0% interest, but at least it's not negative. But if you have 100M in [edit: $your_native_currency], y