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by veyron 15y ago
Why aren't capital gains assessed medicare tax?
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by veyron 15y ago
Problem is that most things you have described are public goods, for which you really can't allow people to attribute.
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by veyron 15y ago
The real problem is that the republicans are zealots of the church of voodoo economics. The reality is that demand-side economics has stronger and more intelligent underpinnings (give money to individuals --> they spend --> increase
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by veyron 15y ago
"The reason the European debt crises is so serious is because the adoption of the euro means that no individual contry can print their own money to avoid default." It's more because each individual country issues bonds. The ECB can't issue
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by veyron 15y ago
Problem is that, especially during the bush era, there were a lot of no-bid contracts to firms such as Halliburton. And we are obliged to make those payments.
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by veyron 15y ago
Checked on BB. It looks like $80B of invested assets across bond funds with any reported information would be affected (which is paltry, considering the full run of US treasuries far exceeds $10T)
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by veyron 15y ago
End of the day, these are the same jokers who were rating junk assets as AAA and completely missed every problem in this financial crisis. And the fact that moody's still maintains Aaa means that there's a nonzero chance it will have no eff
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by veyron 15y ago
Some funds strictly cannot hold anything lower than AAA, but most have "investment grade" requirement which is BBB (Baa in moody's ratings) That type of downgrade is very unlikely
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by veyron 15y ago
It would be awesome if the web version of LPTHW had an interactive tool just like this.
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by veyron 15y ago
No matter what path you take, you need to solve the labor issue. And at this stage, if you don't have enough money to properly hire someone, have you considered asking HN if someone is interested in being a cofounder? If the idea is intere
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by veyron 15y ago
I used to perl but now I python :)
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by veyron 15y ago
It's been down the past few hours. They've been HN'd (or YC'd or w/e analogue to /. )
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by veyron 15y ago
When you bill per hour, its harder to reach that number. This is misleading because salaried employees and equity holders can easily work many hours, but hourly workers are limited by how many hours their employers will allow them to work
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by veyron 15y ago
When you are working on your own startup, you don't see it as work. It's easy to "work" many hours, but it's enjoyable to a great extent.
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by veyron 15y ago
Quantly is woefully inactive: http://quant.ly/newest says the latest 3 posts (not counting the 3 that were posted after the HN post) were 1, 7, 18 days ago respectively.
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by veyron 15y ago
Probably because they went to large banks. You can get offers out of college paying 300K+ if you join a smaller outfit.
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by veyron 15y ago
Do you have any latency numbers you could share? :)
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by veyron 15y ago
waiting list :/
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by veyron 15y ago
the name veyron was already taken, hence veyronb :)
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by veyron 15y ago
For components not in the critical path, third party implementations are acceptable. However, it is not surprising to see every piece in the critical path to be written in-house (feed handlers, for which there are many companies selling sol
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by veyron 15y ago
I agree with the final conclusion, but this is a terrible way to measure system latency! For starters, most exchanges block icmp packets, precluding a ping-based measurement. Latency should be measured by actually going through their system
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by veyron 15y ago
Neither are involved in the intraday production critical path. Maybe I should have explicitly used that phrase. FYI: "Answer: For various reasons, (2) is the natural entry point ( historical data can be used in lieu of real data, strat
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Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, Part 3(veyronb.wordpress.com)
91 points by veyron 15y ago|16 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
"How can we sanely say something is financially vital to our country, and then exclude 99.9% of the population from it?" <-- How can we declare a private bank "too big to fail"? I mean, no we can't, but this isn't the only insane situa
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by veyron 15y ago
All of your questions will be resolved if you understand one key fact: "Exchanges are companies". If you want to know why they are not government entities, imagine the GOP backlash if they tried to own and run an exchange (I'm not sure how
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by veyron 15y ago
There are all kinds of companies selling technology solutions for everything (as targeted as FPGA-driven feed data processors; as all-encompassing as the solution you presented). Most of them are crap and oftentimes have no paying customer
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by veyron 15y ago
The worst part was May 6 2010 (the flash crash). The exchanges and SEC arbitrarily threw out a number 60%, and people who managed to buy at 59% discount got to keep their (very) profitable trade and people who managed to buy at 61% discoun
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by veyron 15y ago
A friend and I built an iPhone app in pursuit of a new concept, and we did a few field tests, but Apple did not approve the app. At that point, although we could have continued pushing, we decided it was easier to stop the project and part
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by veyron 15y ago
I personally think he was writing those so that someone would stumble across them and hire him. The new employer must have asked him to take them down.
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by veyron 15y ago
There is a signficant cost to obtain data and most of the seemingly simple trades don't make much money anymore. Purchasing realtime market data is very expensive, and you generally need to make 1000$ per trading day to break even. It's no

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