t1lthesky

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by t1lthesky 6y ago
No one is saying its ok to drink while pregnant, there are many things that you can normally do that you shouldn't do when you are pregnant. Fly for example, or engage in extreme sports like skiing. Similarly, you should not drink prio
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by t1lthesky 6y ago
I think we can all agree that heavy alcohol consumption is bad for your health. However I'm pretty skeptical that a moderate amount of alcohol consumption, say 1-2 drinks per week, is any higher risk to your health than the many other
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by t1lthesky 6y ago
I think at this point the benefits of HFT to markets (lower spreads, more liquidity, faster incorporation of information into prices) is pretty undisputed. I'll let you do your own research, but just to address your point about spreads
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by t1lthesky 7y ago
Ha I remember doing the same thing when I was ~6 years old in South Korea. There would be these trucks that went around spraying mosquito killing fog in the apartment complexes and all the little kids from the neighborhood would run behind
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
I think this is a misguided sentiment, and this article sums up the reasons why pretty well: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-14/want-t...
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
Even supposing that HFT adds no value to society (which is an incorrect assumption as many commenters have already pointed out), this particular argument is pretty inane in my opinion. There are perhaps 4-8 significant players in the HFT sp
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
By online communities do you mean hacker news/reddit, places like that?
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Ask HN: What are some recs for a high school student interested in programming?
3 points by t1lthesky 8y ago|11 comments
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
The authors viewpoint would be that the “American Empire” is the large amount of political, military, and economic influence that America wields internationally. You can infer from the article that he believes this empire is what keeps regi
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
It seems as though you read only the article title and made a snap judgement of the author based on your preconceptions. Here’s the first three sentences from the actual article: “So what would the decline of America look like? I don’t ask
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
Americans spend too much on nearly all government provided services. Anyone who thinks that more government spending is the solution really doesn’t understand the underlying issues at all. When it costs 5x as much to build a new subway line
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
That's strange, I spent a month in Japan this past winter and had the opposite experience. My diet in America consists mainly of lean meats and veggies. It's nearly impossible to find veggies in the amounts that I want to eat in J
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
Come on are you really making this argument? That we cant know if it was better for the USA or Nazi Germany to have nuclear weapons? Like, say you have to go back in time and give nuclear weapons to Nazi Germany or the USA during ww2.. yo
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by t1lthesky 8y ago
There's a column from Matt Levine where he explains the real purpose of useless busywork for ibanking associates. He gives an example of a guy making a PowerPoint who messes up one trivial formatting detail and his boss makes him redo
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by t1lthesky 11y ago
I dont know about this. I've used uber in multiple cities in the US and taken cabs in multiple cities across the EU, and the uber experience beats cabs hands down. Everything is more convenient - some cities you can only get cabs in ce
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by t1lthesky 12y ago
As a guy in his mid-20s working in a high-pressure, high-paying 9-8 job... Its all a tradeoff. Yeah I'm working very hard during the week - I don't really have time for anything besides work+gym during weekdays, and some weekends