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Ubiquiti isn't really consumer, though. They want to target enterprises and businesses. Sure, their hardware ends up in residential deployments more often than perhaps any other ki…

I would argue that no matter what language you pick, adding abstraction always behaves like this: Suppose I have a thing I need to do, called X. I write a program to do X. Then lat…

Another factual observation is to look at Virtu's recent earnings numbers. They're basically pivoting as hard as they can to get out of speed-based HFT and into execution services,…

I've been looking at Redis recently as a potential solution to some caching I might want to do, and one hurdle I encountered almost immediately is: Suppose I have some function, ge…

Which requires a margin trading account, a non-trivial amount of trading experience, a non-trivial amount of capital, constant management, and is highly leveraged. The risk profile…

In general, you don't need to worry about Vanguard or Schwab or whoever provides your particular index fund going bankrupt. The actual assets in the fund don't go anywhere. Whoever…

To be clear, this is a central bank thing. The part of the government issuing debt doesn't technically have a say in it. The Federal Reserve bank sets the Federal Funds rate. This …

The gist of it is that if you have 1, 10, or even 100 thousand dollars in cash, sure you can sit that in your bank and probably earn ~0% interest, but at least it's not negative. B…