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Tons of amazing music with totally new sounds comes from people 16-20 years old. For the right person, it doesn't take a decade.

> Well “the price” might be totally different if there were no off-exchange orders. I'm not sure what that means, but there's no scenario in which you'd get a worse price. That wou…

You are guaranteed a price that is equal or better than what you'd get on the exchange. Why would you want to bypass that?

From a skim, that article doesn't seem to suggest that DE Shaw has done anything illegal. In fact, the paragraph after the one you quoted from makes it look like they work hard to …

Prop traders / HFTs definitely provide liquidity. It's not clear that quant funds do the same.

> Instead you go to an anonymous arb firm, for $1m in bonds, and you say, "okay we're going to sell you the bond that is actually ours, you will sell it back to us, here is your fe…

> I think it’s bad (it’s weird/unfair) How is it bad or unfair? Everybody wins: you get a better price, the market maker does a trade they're happy with, and your broker gets a lit…

How is Domain different/better than Deferred? http://dev.realworldocaml.org/concurrent-programming.html

> I think its a bit presumptuous that tech workers are perm leaving the city. The survey in OP suggests that they are, with two important caveats: * This is obviously not even clos…

If you physically work in California yes. I don't know what happens if you work for a company whose HQ is in California but you're physically in a different state.

> Adapt solutions to your particular use case. There's no one-size-fits-all solution for everything. Compare different approaches, analyze them. Tutorials or articles show an idea,…

> If people's feelings matter, why don't mine? Of course your feelings matter. I'm sure there are plenty of situations where your feelings are the most important factor to consider…

> It is not painless: it is dissonant The dissonance should be cause for reflection and growth. Why does the gendered version sound harmonious? What does that answer say about the …

> there isn't any ill intent to be talked about In addition to intent, outcome must also be considered.

> there are no other good alternatives for your investment If the market is going down, then even cash is a better alternative.

If your 401k has ETFs or mutual funds in it, the fund managers are rebalancing every month or every quarter. Saving small amounts of money on these transactions really adds up when…

> I wonder How can someone become an expert at python. I think it's the same as becoming an expert at anything. Lots of practice, and lots of feedback from people who are already e…

It's not obvious that this well help anything, but at least it's better than Jersey City. They put a cap on how much apps can charge restaurants, so obviously the apps just added m…

> switched to another team internally because they are pro-remote and I plan on moving back to Australia I don't know about Microsoft in particular, but from what I've seen it's mu…

> You want to move to the Midwest and work remotely, or apply for a transfer to a different regional office? Happy to let you do it, but know that the market rate for your skills t…

Sure, it's totally reasonable for somebody to dislike these features. I just object to the claims that it doesn't do anything substantially different than what it did 10 years ago.…

I think this is very unlikely. Making the page load one second faster pays Facebook more in terms of user retention and engagement than it costs them in server usage.

> Facebook rendered just fine a decade ago. What changed between now and then It does way more things. In particular, there are a lot more interactive experiences. A decade ago, it…

> air is recirculated That shouldn't actually matter. As far as we know, coronavirus is not airborne. From the WHO: > According to the currently available evidence, transmission th…