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Sure. All I was saying is that it's theoretically possible for a market order that a customer submits online to be front-run (as opposed to a market order submitted to a single exc…

> What a broker does has nothing to do with how market orders work. A market order submitted to a single exchange isn't the same as a "market order" submitted to e.g. Fidelity.com.…

> I'm pretty sure you misunderstand market orders because by definition they are only visible to the market after they have traded, so nobody can get ahead of you or do sonething i…

If bitcoin becomes 'the currency of the future' then renting 51% of the capacity at market rates will be prohibitively expensive.

I mean many people start bodegas, restaurants, etc. I imagine that's more akin to 19th century entrepreneurship and still is by far the most prevalent form of entrepreneurship toda…

> The current way of doing things Is there a realistic alternative? Sure, universal basic income eventually, but that's not practical at the moment.

> Middlemen, example Amazon, have never been stronger. The strength of a middleman can be directly measured by how much they mark up prices. Does amazon really mark up prices more …

Pretty sure they do. https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMining/comments/7jg14f/one_o...

That alternative to putting them in the desert is putting them in some non-desert area or putting them nowhere. If these people are objecting to putting them in a desert, they'll o…

I agree mostly. But there may also be a cyclical effect where women don't go into CS because they don't see women working in tech. In which case Google shouldn't necessarily have a…

> very strict immigration policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

thanks for the recommendation

I'd rather own snapchat personally. Think it has more upside than the rest of those combined. Only one close is twitter. You don't buy a company like snapchat for a 20% return, it'…

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/756004029239472132

> The only way I could be You could weigh 184 pounds and have a BMI <25. Even with a sedentary lifestyle you'd still burn 2,199 calories a day. This is patently false.

> the first focus should be on trying to retain all full-time employees Why? The 20% that are fired can get other jobs. The group as a whole ends up getting paid more with lay-offs…

Yeah, I meant more like a Tesla or Chevy Volt.

How big of a solar panel would you have to stick on top of an electric car to keep it going forever (ignoring the extra weight/wind resistance)?

I think he switched to the Pixel: http://www.zdnet.com/article/chromebooks-biggest-fan-linus-t...

Joining seems to imply they'll be keeping the acquired company's employees.

It says they visited 6,815,255 Google sites and 1,686 contained malware. It only visited 152 DuckDuckGo pages. It would have to visit an order of magnitude more than 152 Google pag…

Storing a history of all of your messages in the cloud isn't a feature for everyone.

That is not true. What do you think the purpose of fat is? As long as you have fat supplies, your body will use those fat supplies. Example: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/…