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In fact, we were basically the trader’s little bitches, and any quant who’s honest with himself realizes that. I wonder what it is that traders do that they can't be replaced by so…

Thanks very much for the links!

There's the possibility of middle men who are supposed to make some of these obstacles easier to overcome: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1560072 Are you speaking from persona…

Assuming I had the necessary skills (and I do, in math and programming, but not finance or trading at the moment), could I do algorithmic or high-frequency trading on my own, or is…

NYT now also has an article about this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/us/29scotus.html

If you are going to move somewhere cheap, while you are working on your software all by yourself, consider safe and stable countries in Latin America, like Costa Rica.

> At this point in the real estate cycle, you could probably buy two single homes, For $100k? Where in the US would that be?

> which allows the government to charge people who they think might be about to infringe with a civil offense (for example if you searched "torrent daft punk"). I find this difficu…

Sorry, but both of these stats are bullshit.

> Smart people whom are successful usually got there by doing the same and have an innate desire to help those do the same. Most smart people know not to overuse the dative form.

It should be easy to check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_specialties and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_(medicine)

I didn't realize that "diagnostics" was a medical specialty.

I don't know. I thought radiation to treat a possible brain tumor without knowing where it is was way off-base.

I wanted to ask House fans with any kind of medical background: are real doctors expected to have as much encyclopedic knowledge of even rare diseases as Dr. House seems to display…

I think your mindset is that if you leave now, your boss wins (having underpaid you all this time). Right?

> "Instead of assuming this, why don't you check and tell us? It should be pretty easy; historical Forbes 400 data is available online." Well, he wasn't WRONG. He just advised you …

I'm trying to think of "famously aggressive" and "little", and all I can come up with is one of them Koreas.