smabie

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by smabie 4y ago
You actually use usenet? why?
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by smabie 4y ago
Why would HN construct such a feature
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by smabie 4y ago
I mean if you're offering much more money for the bounty than could be earned on the blackmarket the hacker probably won't want to take the risk of double dipping.
334.
by smabie 4y ago
I think you misread
335.
by smabie 4y ago
I think it's pretty hilarious so I vote yes
336.
by smabie 4y ago
What does string escaping have to do with market making?
337.
by smabie 4y ago
Isn't this what taxes are? Also just ignore that line, it's not actually true.
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by smabie 4y ago
Ignoring the fact that liquidity provisioning is a very valuable service (if it wasn't, people wouldn't pay for it), what are you doing that is so world changing?
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by smabie 4y ago
I don't think it's that hard to understand. Also I'm sure there's some subset of people who think what you do in life is evil.
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by smabie 4y ago
I imagine it started gradually: one lie led to another and before you know it, you're printing a whole new newspaper for him every day. I find it unlikely that this was a coordinated deception that happened all at once.
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by smabie 4y ago
Just end the interview early: why waste their time and yours? It's similar to making a decision to fire someone: if you have a suspicion that someone won't work out, probably best to just immediately cut them. Don't think I&#
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by smabie 4y ago
Not sure exactly what you're trying to say but let me tell you, fills from other HFT firms are highly toxic.
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by smabie 4y ago
Nah probably not since so many people on HN are programmers.
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by smabie 4y ago
Conversely, did you see it coming and make a ton of money?
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by smabie 4y ago
Finance people (well, the ones that actually make money trading) don't put much stock in EMH either..
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by smabie 4y ago
Not aware of a market maker that also doesn't take liquidity as well. In fact, it probably would impossible to market make without also taking (you wouldn't be able to provide liquidity if your quotes were in cross with the market
347.
by smabie 4y ago
Sorry I meant to say buying puts (and have edited comment). Buying puts is directional and has negative carry. That's often fine because when your puts aren't making money your market making strategies should be doing well and vic
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by smabie 4y ago
Flow from other HFT / market makers is often very toxic. They are playing the exact the game as you.
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by smabie 4y ago
Generally good article that delves into how a market maker functions. Couple points: Re EA: quoting my boss, EA isn't really a dominant thing in the market maker space, it's pretty much only espoused by a couple high profile indiv
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by smabie 4y ago
There's a lot of Rust jobs in the crypto space as well as some jobs in the trading space.
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by smabie 4y ago
Sure it is: just work in trading.
352.
by smabie 4y ago
Turns out that even if you're down 90% you can still go down another 100%.
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by smabie 4y ago
I mean, it's pretty similar to investors in VC or PE or mutual / hedge funds: you are investing in the managers skill / talent to generate you a return.
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by smabie 4y ago
By getting acct and routing numbers they can easily siphon money.
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by smabie 4y ago
Seems like this company has gotten a lot of hype but what so they actually do? Cloud hosting? Or selling physical servers? Both of those things sound like a terrible business tho..
356.
by smabie 4y ago
Or they could go with Nym with the Pho file extension
357.
by smabie 4y ago
(much) more likely explanation is that market tanked in the interim.
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by smabie 4y ago
You can play spotify podcasts offline and on all kinds of devices I feel like.
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by smabie 4y ago
There are probably thousands or tens of thousands of moderators on reddit. Obviously it's not 3.4mm per moderator.
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by smabie 4y ago
What's wrong with scalpers? They offer a valuable service: allowing people who want something to be able to pay for it.

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