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You seem to be ignoring the most important factor, which is cost.

If it's TCP then there's an uplink implied.

It's a way to fraudulently pump the price (or lower the price) of a security. One person with two accounts can keep trading back and forth with themselves, and since crypto exchang…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/11/china-legalise...

It is a huge premium. In reality it should only be the future value of the current spot, given the current interest rate. For other types of futures (oil, grains) that have storage…

Most people think it's a bubble, and nobody thinks they're the greater fool.

It's tidally locked, so you couldn't you put the settlement on the Earth-facing side and not have to worry as much about meteors?

Don't cryptocurrency transactions take a lot more time & energy than, say, a credit card transaction?

Or you can thank the English for figuring out how to measure longitude.

I use VsVim in Visual Studio, highly recommended.

I guess C++/CLI doesn't count as a .NET language? Shame it gets so little attention, it's a fantastic interop language.

Local tv channels have the broadcast rights for the home team area - like SNY in New York has the rights for the Mets. Their contracts specify that they have exclusive rights to th…

Why don't they just build taller buildings?

The problem isn't locking so much, it's that you have to dispatch to a kernel thread when you're requesting and sending data, paying the cost of that context switch every time. In …

Now they'll just be held back by lack of a widespread charging infrastructure.

Do glaciers move continuously, such that they can be measured like this?

Welcome to the surveillance state in your head: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-surveill...

He's not a fan of two's complement, I guess.

Bicycles aren't allowed on the sidewalk, either.

This should have linked to a blank page.

It's not an especially high barrier if your strategy doesn't require you to build physical infrastructure (most strategies don't require this). You have programmers, hardware, colo…

This piece is an excerpt from the longer Radiolab episode.

I agree that it's a waste of talent and money, but how is it evil?

That would create a corrupting incentive for the USPTO to encourage and accept more patent filings, which is the opposite of what they should be doing.

A better measure would be deaths per driver decision, if you could estimate such a thing.