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by tricky 16y ago
"At any time, humans could step in and provide liquidity during the flash crash and during other crashes." Humans can, and do. But algorithms can't and won't.
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by tricky 16y ago
I have nothing against HFT but I don't buy your liquidity argument. Liquidity is needed most when markets are falling outside the norm. Any algorithm with a fail-safe or kill switch will immediately shut off when times get bad thereby endin
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by tricky 16y ago
What's that quote that says something like in a gold rush you're better off selling the picks and shovels than trying to strike gold?
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by tricky 16y ago
How about a 2 bit font: ▀▄▀ █▄█ █▀█▀█ █▀█▀█ ▀▄▀
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by tricky 16y ago
fun and a great replacement for writing on the go, but I think porting something like Ableton Live to the iPad is more suited to the form factor.
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by tricky 16y ago
sure - I want to teach myself market analysis, so I'm scraping craigslist for data and fiddling with it. I did some curve fitting so I thought it might be cool to calculate velocity to, you know, figure out what time the velocity of people
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by tricky 16y ago
I dug out my old calc textbook last weekend because I need derivatives for my latest hack. Every time I get stuck Khan Academy saves the day. just sayin'.
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by tricky 16y ago
Ambient noise is part of the reason why mutemath's drummer duct tapes his headphones to his head, no? Do you think you could learn to play with a tactile click track? I always thought it would be interesting to build a thing you strap to yo
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by tricky 16y ago
I'm guessing another perk of actually owning the building is you can have a look at the storage shed before you decide to hold an auction. Sounds like the owners of that particular facility probably only keep the assembled cars...
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by tricky 16y ago
That is amazing. What bank is it? Right now the best I can find is a 1.1% money market savings account. Another thing to consider is the banks that offer cash to open an account. I put $2500 in a new ING Direct account for 6 months and they
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by tricky 16y ago
same here. the great advice above (or below) re: accounting for the standard deduction when calculating nominal tax savings for mortgage interest and the fact I received the tax form from my mortgage company yesterday showing how much I pai
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by tricky 16y ago
Are there really any zero risk vehicles that guarantee more than a 4.85% return? In other words, show me a zero risk 5% vehicle and I'll stop trying to pay off my mortgage immediately. edited for a dumb mistake....
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by tricky 16y ago
we (married) drive shitty cars. our 401k's are maxed out. I shop around for the best savings account rate. I wind up changing banks every year or two. I pick stocks and hold for the LOL's. Currently getting a 12% APY on about $5000 invested
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by tricky 16y ago
I'm not convinced the average consumer cares enough about quality to throw enough dollars at it. Look at how mp3 has vaporized CD sales.
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by tricky 16y ago
ha! i just picked your book up off the new arrivals shelf at the library. glad to see you're on hn.
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by tricky 16y ago
IMHO this is an amazing project so there's that, but I don't understand the flying suit in general. I would much rather fly in something that had a little more structure to it and was more aerodynamically stable (e.g. a flying car) Is anyon
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by tricky 16y ago
Maybe it is a cheaper way to buy dollars? I couldn't find the interest rates on the accounts anywhere on the site.
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by tricky 16y ago
i have 19,452 messages in my inbox right now. I'm mildly OCD but my brain doesn't register this as clutter, either. I think it's because of search. I know I can find something when I need it because everything is in one place, on one server
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by tricky 16y ago
A similar system was put in place by a pharmacy system to detect employee narcotics abuse. They'd throw an alarm when a pharmacist started dispensing pills at a rate outside their SD. The system worked great except in the case where a pharm
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by tricky 16y ago
I don't know, xtranormal seems to be chock full o' amazing financial advice. Here's one for you if you don't trust teddy bears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jllJ-HeErjU Seriously, buy the effing dip.
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by tricky 16y ago
For those of us who don't know - QE is Quantitative Easing which is nicely explained in this great xtranormal video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k
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by tricky 16y ago
I've always thought for some people, destruction is a form of self-expression. Sometimes it is the only way they know how to create.
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by tricky 16y ago
"The offering is being closely watched as a barometer of the Manhattan real estate market." Does anyone know the Manhattan real estate market? is 1.9 B a steal?
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by tricky 16y ago
did you research the differences between the s1300 and s1500? if so, can you let us know?
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by tricky 16y ago
yes, the series was conceived and written by a Columbia mfa
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by tricky 16y ago
funny. that's what I submitted as my original title but thankfully it automagically changed to be less link baity.
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by tricky 16y ago
He did sell "I Am Number Four" to Spielberg.
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by tricky 16y ago
"He was looking for young writers to join him on a new publishing endeavor—a company that would produce mostly young-adult novels. Frey believed that Harry Potter and the Twilight series had awakened a ravenous market of readers and were le
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James Frey’s Fiction Factory(nymag.com)
18 points by tricky 16y ago|16 comments
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by tricky 16y ago
you develop a drug that will work on a couple of different diseases (or, more likely, different cancers) You can only afford to run a clinical trial on one disease. How do you choose? You hire a company who has a good handle on data (A lot

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