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by wdewind 11y ago
This isn't a strong study (only 30 people) but it's a good start and provides the basis for another study (I point this out because frequently people online dismiss studies that have small sample sizes: the point is to provide the
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by wdewind 11y ago
> Not in equal amounts, certainly, but not at a ratio of 50-5000x from founders to every other individual. I'm not sure I can agree with that statement. All I can say is that if you think you have a deal that isn't fair to you
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by wdewind 11y ago
>This is a nice way of saying "will be taken advantage of". Or it's a recognition that if you are serious about growing your career you need to do so by demonstrating you are capable of handling greater levels of responsib
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by wdewind 11y ago
Yes but that doesn't take into account that startups are far more likely to hire someone in a growth/reach position. Yes the employee takes a risk, but in many cases the company is taking a risk hiring them as well. Joining a st
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by wdewind 11y ago
> empower small engineering teams to take advantage of certificates Dumb question: I'm an engineer who doesn't understand certificates outside of the basics of SSL. What are some cool things a small engineering team could do w
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by wdewind 11y ago
I encourage everyone to watch this...maybe it's all bs but among the interesting points Shkreli says: -They have reduced or eliminated co-pays so no patient is paying as much out of pocket as they used to -The drug is still 50% given a
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by wdewind 11y ago
You're right but the point about protein wasn't specifically about protein, it was about insulin and how focusing on insulin levels (with the exception of diabetics) is not really a useful thing to do when talking about weight los
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by wdewind 11y ago
Some caveats: -Many people do not tolerate high fat diets well. For them such diets are not an option. -A low carb high fat diet is pretty suboptimal for athletes. Many proponents of low carb diets attempt to mitigate this by having athle
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by wdewind 11y ago
As always thanks for a thoughtful reply. I'll reiterate somethings I've mentioned to you before: > Accurate, neutral titles are what's best for readers to make up their own minds. Not to be pedantic, but I think you are u
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by wdewind 11y ago
The point that Ruby is memory intensive vs other things like Nodejs and thus you are shooting yourself in the foot using it applies only to a very small subset of businesses, like Scribd, who require absolutely massive scale in order to be
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by wdewind 11y ago
> On HN we don't simply accept what a "magazine of note" decides to tell us in its headline. > Readers here can make up their own minds. These two sentences seem in conflict to me...
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by wdewind 11y ago
Thanks for the kind words, GolfyMcG :)
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by wdewind 11y ago
I just want to make sure I'm understanding you properly: you are saying that big block traders are using IEX because it has low fees, not because the IEX system is preventing the pricing from shifting during the order, correct?
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by wdewind 11y ago
I'm willing to believe you but do you have any source at all? Are you saying big block traders are staying on IEX because the fees are lower? That just doesn't make sense to me, the fee overhead is almost insignificant with big
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by wdewind 11y ago
IEX claims that their delay means that large orders are able to be carried out without the price changing. If this is true, it would seem that IEX is not just a marketing gimmick and is in fact doing what they say they do. If this is not t
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by wdewind 11y ago
Yes, that makes sense, but the trade that is done on IEX is still not affected by HFT. So I understand how HFTs can still use IEX to make money, but I don't think that means the 350us delay is a marketing gimmick as vasilipupkin said.
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by wdewind 11y ago
Right...but the important function of IEX is that it protects the block order buyer or seller, and it seems to still be doing that, so it sounds like what they are doing is working.
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by wdewind 11y ago
Can you please get into the nitty gritty? Why is anyone using IEX if there is so much HFT on it? Edit: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/08/11/debate-over-high-f... Seems like there is some debate. I
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by wdewind 11y ago
Most exchanges take considerably less time and there are a lot of HFT strategies that require low latencies in order to cancel certain trades before they happen.
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by wdewind 11y ago
Can you expand on how IEX's delay isn't preventing HFT from succeeding? I don't really understand enough about the financial markets to know what you mean.
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by wdewind 11y ago
Right, that makes sense, but Katsuyama and Lewis both present IEX as a morally superior, cleaner stock market. It makes sense that large block traders would want a different way to do large block trades, but why not just see it as an alter
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by wdewind 11y ago
I am deeply confused by IEX. It seems like anyone who knows anything about HFT thinks the narrative proposed in Flash Boys is completely ridiculous and mostly incorrect, including what Brad Katsuyama says. Is there something else interest
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by wdewind 11y ago
> What if a stock will fluctuate based on lunch time buying surges and after work happy hour, and birthday ties to kids having a birthday on Saturday and their social networks socioeconomic propensity to buy stuff for them last minute at
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by wdewind 11y ago
Except that the variations of the gene associated with obesity are also associated with eating a huge amount more: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1038/oby.2008.318/abst... Which is a much simpler expla
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by wdewind 11y ago
Yeah, I meant barbell squats. Dan Riley's school of thought is extremely 1980s/1990s and does not reflect the "state of the art" in terms of strength training. He advocates using machine based squats, which greatly dec
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by wdewind 11y ago
I'd be into to hearing of some professional athletes/teams you think are doing a really good job with strength and conditioning.
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by wdewind 11y ago
I think I mostly agree with your sentiments about armchair experts, but I think you're giving the professional sports industry way too much credit. There are things reasonable people disagree about when it comes to training (you did a
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by wdewind 11y ago
One of the interesting things about high level athletes is that their routines are often terrible and they are succeeding in spite of not because of them. People with even an intermediate understanding of weightlifting and program design c
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by wdewind 11y ago
You may want to be careful pointing that out. Uber is big, but it's possible that description only matches one person, and you've just implied that person did something they definitely shouldn't have by telling you Uber was
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by wdewind 11y ago
This type of data is subject to so many biases there is no way to make it useful (in fact I'd argue that it is actually worse than useless, it's misleading and incorrect). I'd love to be corrected on this, so if you have ide

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