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841.
by ric2b 6y ago
But HFT works by reacting faster than another market participant willing to do the same trade, so the liquidity was already there. They won't do a trade if there's no one to instantly sell to, so they aren't adding liquidity,
842.
by ric2b 6y ago
But we're not discussing on the scale of minutes, we're discussing sub-second intervals that aren't even perceptible to humans.
843.
by ric2b 6y ago
Can you expand on this? From my understanding ETF's re-balance quite slowly, once every few months, how does HFT even help, much less make ETF's possible?
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by ric2b 6y ago
If that were true how would virtual DOM ever be faster than the DOM? It would still have to update the DOM itself. What V-DOM is trying to address is tracking what is changing in your application so that it can modify the DOM on your behalf
845.
by ric2b 6y ago
I was drawn to Svelte by the performance/bundle size but I fell in love with how simple it is to write components and share data between them. Each component is just HTML/CSS/JS in a single file, sort of like Vue but cleaner.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Sure, the ability for someone to be pardoned should exist, but it's complete nonsense that the President alone controls it. I agree with you, Congress should also take a vote, so that the power to pardon doesn't rest on a single p
847.
by ric2b 6y ago
But they're usually started by one or a few people. If they get somewhere promising more resources can be added over time to make it more than a cool PoC.
848.
by ric2b 6y ago
The C in CAP isn't required if we're assuming that there's an explicit "sync" that the user only expects to happen occasionally.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Do you never leave your house or go close to the windows? If you do, there you go. Do you never run into traffic or stop at red lights in your car? If you do, there you go. I wouldn't assume you'd always see the drone coming, even
850.
by ric2b 6y ago
But is the ratio 1 to 1? Or are there way more medical billers than physicians? Anyway, it's an unnecessary cost.
851.
by ric2b 6y ago
Transportation costs for everything go down, including food, water, electricity, etc. Public transit becomes viable and, if well managed, superior to driving a car. People tend to walk more instead of relying on vehicles for everything. Bui
852.
by ric2b 6y ago
If you have time to drive them somewhere you also have time to take them via public transit in a well connected city.
853.
by ric2b 6y ago
> and except glasgow, none accept english speakers. What do you mean by don't accept? Porto and Lisbon are quite easy to get around as an English speaker, most young people are very decent at speaking English.
854.
by ric2b 6y ago
But the exploration should be led by the data scientists, not by the suits who think they need a specific type of model.
855.
by ric2b 6y ago
Doesn't sound like a big problem. It's a big company but quite easy to avoid.
856.
by ric2b 6y ago
The authors get to choose, and are paid when they get views from paying customers.
857.
by ric2b 6y ago
Great list. That last suggestion (Multiple requests) can be tough to implement correctly, I think it's usually called Happy Eyeballs: https://youtu.be/oLkfnc_UMcE?t=290
858.
by ric2b 6y ago
Isn't it better to make it idempotent? The risk is that the client might accidentally make the same transaction twice if the first attempt looks like it failed. Make the client include the id of it's last known transaction and onl
859.
by ric2b 6y ago
So if I make a chat or video conferencing webapp you want to get an e-mail every time someone replies to you or invites you to a call?
860.
by ric2b 6y ago
The barrier to installing a different browser in Windows was MUCH lower, that wasn't the problem.
861.
by ric2b 6y ago
Don't forget that Android has more than one store and depending on the company you buy your phone from it might even come with another store pre-installed, such as the Samsung store. So comparing iOS store to only the play store will i
862.
by ric2b 6y ago
I wonder why his company mostly ignores Linux then.
863.
by ric2b 6y ago
> You can't in practice verify that clicks or impressions are real, as opposed to initiated by bots, without correlating them with real human behavior. Track purchases coming from ads?
864.
by ric2b 6y ago
I know your HN username is "noisy_boy", I can track your HN posts/comments but I have no idea who you are, where you live, etc. That's how anonymized data _can_ work. Of course it's also easy to mess that up and lea
865.
by ric2b 6y ago
Ad with id X was shown, Ad with id X was clicked, Ad with id X led to a purchase. Is it that important to know more than that?
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by ric2b 6y ago
Starlink satellites are in decaying orbits, eventually they fall through the atmosphere and burn away. They have some propellant to make adjustments and stay in orbit a bit longer but if you blow them up you just make the decay process quic
867.
by ric2b 6y ago
> If Google decides Chrome will no longer allow changing DNS providers, game over for 60% of internet users. And if they do that for Android, or Microsoft does the same for Windows, game over for 90% of internet users. Banning DoH doesn&
868.
by ric2b 6y ago
Svelte is even simpler to learn than Vue and has the benefit of having a much smaller/simpler/more efficient runtime. As a backend dev, it's what I wanted frontend work to feel like when I started learning frontend.
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by ric2b 6y ago
Innocent people (the ones on the same subnet/VPN) don't deserve to be banned, that's a bizarre suggestion.
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by ric2b 6y ago
> How? I mean, what do you suggest? Not hiring people like this is a way to fix the culture.

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