white_devil

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by white_devil 13y ago
And chat logs couldn't possibly be forged, right? :p
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by white_devil 13y ago
Well, one has to wonder why they'd want to hack into Logica's systems. I can't see a reason. What would they want from Logica, and why would they risk getting caught hacking companies? Haven't they got enough trouble with TPB already? It
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by white_devil 13y ago
Somehow there's always someone complaining about a "generalization", isn't there? Here's what I said: >> Every government is corrupt, because the very arrangement of government itself leads to corruption. In this statement, "every g
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by white_devil 13y ago
Every government is corrupt, because the very arrangement of government itself leads to corruption. In Sweden's case, it's just not your average third-world style corruption like "hand me a bag of money and let's see about that building per
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by white_devil 13y ago
It's bullshit propaganda, and the charges are just as valid as Assange's rape charges, courtesy of the same corrupt government. The US entertainment industry wants to make an example of him. >> He was also charged with hacking into
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by white_devil 13y ago
>> I'm from Sweden and I'm very sad to say that I don't consider Sweden to fulfil all the requirements for rule of law and legal security. [Citation Neeeded] What kind of "citation" would you expect? The Swedish government to tell y
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by white_devil 13y ago
Well, if I have a good idea, post it there and get a lot of positive feedback, wouldn't that downright encourage someone to implement the idea now that it's (supposedly) been validated? Don't get me wrong, I'm not hoping WTF will not succ
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by white_devil 13y ago
But since anyone hoping to make a new product should be talking to his real potential customers, why would he not talk to them directly , instead of say, trying to get them to use WTF? Anyone other than his real-life potential customers gi
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by white_devil 13y ago
It sounds like you work for the financial industry too. > The HFT trader You say it like it's a person making trades. > I've benefited because I can buy/sell at a price close to the quoted exchange price, which didn't use to be the
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by white_devil 13y ago
> an open source approach can be seriously competitive Do you really think any Joe Schmoe off the street could just grab your open source HFT and start making money with it? If not, how does your project benefit anyone? Are you working
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by white_devil 13y ago
It's weird how this "providing liquidity" distraction never seems to go out of fashion. HFT provides liquidity if you happen to be another HFT algorithm. Otherwise, not so much. Why would short term investing be bad, and how long do you thi
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by white_devil 13y ago
> The problem is that to close Guantanamo, you need funding to a least move the prisoners to another facility You need funding to keep Gitmo going too. I seriously doubt that would be a problem.
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by white_devil 13y ago
Are you trying to get hired by the financial industry, or is there some other reason for doing this? As you may well be aware, HFT is a scourge on the world's economy, and it's a game only the biggest and best-connected players benefit from
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by white_devil 13y ago
They misspelled "Wall Street".
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by white_devil 13y ago
I wonder if there are any active patent trolls outside of the US, or is it just not viable.
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by white_devil 13y ago
> As someone who was diagnosed with Aspberger syndrome, reading that article made me want to throw up. As another 'Sperg , I can't help but think you're overreacting. Sure, the article was a tad patronizing at times, but the overall to
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by white_devil 13y ago
> iOS is only good for people that want something which works I believe that already disqualifies it from being a "complete joke", and the definition of a "powerful mobile computing device" might involve something else besides "being
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by white_devil 13y ago
I see you have enough karma to downvote comments :p Now how about a rebuttal?
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by white_devil 13y ago
> But that's when it's most important to avoid words like 'fanboy' because otherwise discussion dies. Any discussion with a raging fanboy is dead to begin with . He will reject anything that goes against his rose-tinted view of Google.
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by white_devil 13y ago
A fanboy is a fanboy. There's nothing wrong with pointing one out. Just be glad I didn't spell it "fanboi".
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by white_devil 13y ago
Somalia is often trotted out as some kind of pseudo-argument against anarchism, as if it were an example of what would happen without a government. I can see at least a couple of problems with that: - Somalia has a government, regadless o
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by white_devil 13y ago
> Apples complete joke of a mobile operating system How could you possibly think iOS is a "complete joke".. without being a raging GooGoo fanboy, that is?
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by white_devil 14y ago
Ah yes, the classic Somalia-strawman.
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by white_devil 14y ago
Now, the next step would be to realize that the underlying problem here is the existence of Government itself. It's an arrangement where a small group of people: - Is in a position to accept bribes in exchange for influence. - Decides
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by white_devil 14y ago
> your tone is unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive I take it you're referring to the word "retarded"? It was meant to criticize the idea of a "deflationary spiral", not the poster.
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by white_devil 14y ago
True, some gadgets stay at certain price points, but you keep getting more and more value for your money. We could rephrase "electronics getting cheaper" as "your purchasing power towards electronics increasing", if that's better. > I
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by white_devil 14y ago
In case it wasn't obvious, the word "rape" was used metaphorically. Taxes represent forcefully taking your money away from you. "Rape" seems fitting. Oh, and it's not about "affording" anything. If it were, it would be a voluntary transacti
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by white_devil 14y ago
> provide a counterpoint to the deflationary spiral criticism? Is that the retarded idea that no one will buy anything if prices keep falling? Look no further than computers, cell phones and all manner of electronic gadgets. Their price
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by white_devil 14y ago
> The US government ought to also provide a sizable chunk of money to this fund as well as tax-exempt status. Or it could just, you know, stop this whole patent troll madness altogether.
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by white_devil 14y ago
> To replace income tax, sales tax would have to be 18%. Finland has a VAT of 24%. We also get taxed for income, and there are lots of other hefty taxes too. Strangely enough, this doesn't seem to be enough for our little country to liv

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