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by sseveran 14y ago
NYSE offers this. http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/fact_sheet_Matchpoint_Intraday.pdf
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by sseveran 14y ago
As someone who works in finance (the intended audience) they make perfect sense.
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by sseveran 14y ago
That is actually also criminal.
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by sseveran 14y ago
What you really need is a number of top tier IP lawyers.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Nothing about it is grey hat. The techniques for a global business to shift taxes into a low tax country is well known in an global tax planning group.
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by sseveran 14y ago
You are correct that no individual can. But firms can. And some do. Its not gambling. Its not heading down to the roulette wheel. If someone puts on millions of trades and wins a statistically significant portion of them you would have to s
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by sseveran 14y ago
Nothing in HFT is free. People doing this for a living use precision time protocol in a colocated data center to build their own timestamps. However you can get started by buying ITCH, OpenBook, etc... data which has the full market depth f
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by sseveran 14y ago
Yes. We had systems running a custom build of windows 2000.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Well then someone should make the open Kindle. I love my kindle and haven't bought a dead tree book since I got it.
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by sseveran 14y ago
I know of quite a few false positives at google.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Well Samsung had the opportunity to strike him from the jury pool. This is the risk you run when going to trial.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Yes some of us don't want single payer healthcare. And I did mean to be snarky.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Well I have great news for you. Right on the 1040 form there is a spot where you can elect to pay more. I suggest that you do next year. Or just send the treasury a check.
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by sseveran 14y ago
The RAND study on health insurance and healthcare consumption showed that healthcare is indeed an elastic product.
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by sseveran 14y ago
How do you define reasonable?
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by sseveran 14y ago
I judge does not and should not work for consumers. A judge is there to fairly apply the law.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Well the point of the patent is that you can sue people who infringe on it. Why can't someone do both? Apple clearly has done both here.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Well thats not how the law works today,
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They will charge the manufacturers who in turn will charge you.
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by sseveran 14y ago
I do think that at this point code being shipped by people who consider themselves professionals should be free of the types of common types of problems (SQL Injection, buffer overflows, integer overflows, etc...) There is no real excuse fo
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by sseveran 14y ago
I worked at a big software company and will never go back. The aspiring to mediocrity is the order of the day. I should never have gone to a fortune 500 and I never will again. The culture is corrosive.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Because futures and options are traded in Chicago and equities are traded in NYC (well north jersey) there are opportunities to trade equities and their derivative counterparts. For instance SPY (S&P 500 ETF) in NYC and ES (S&P 500
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by sseveran 14y ago
It is reasonable to use technology to make the universe of potential errors significantly smaller.
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by sseveran 14y ago
They did not gamble. Market making doesn't involve gambling. Someone checked in an egregious error that testing failed to find. The fact that it is in a trading system makes the cost of the bug easy to measure.
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by sseveran 14y ago
If Microsoft was the company involved everyone would be crying fowl about how they are a monopoly and this is the ultimate evil.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Having been involved in both industry funded and government funded medical research I don't think this is a big deal. To me the most important thing is to make sure that it is disclosed. Many researchers that are great at what they do are h
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by sseveran 14y ago
GMail is not even close to a replacement for exchange in a large company. Small companies like mine can use it just fine but I can't see it working as well in a large company. In fact if I still had to write large quantities of mail (which
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by sseveran 14y ago
In fact he once worked at Microsoft I believe.
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by sseveran 14y ago
Agree that it doesn't always work. I am yet to see a viable alternative that works in large organizations. If you know of something different I am all ears.
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by sseveran 14y ago
While I can agree that stack ranking is corrosive in many respects removing under performers is essential. I was at a company (rather large internet company) that did not get rid of under performers. When I arrived what had collected was mo

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