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I work for a quant firm. I am not speculating, but speaking authoritatively - the effects I've stated exist, the specific examples I've given can be captured by retail, and they ca…

There are plenty of known effects that are relatively simple to automate Holding overnight risk yields superior risk-adjusted returns. Buying end of month and dumping few days into…

A lot of these are mostly well-meaning but have backfired. The only way an international business is going to consider investing in French workers, for example, is with relatively …

Insider trading in stocks are prohibited but not for the reason most people think. It has nothing to do with someone having an unfair advantage in an informational sense, and every…

When you are negotiating payment for any good and service, you care only what the end cost is to you. It doesn't matter how you decide to slice it - "this share you pay, this share…

Also it just changes the nature of the game. There's no incentive to interact with the batch until the absolute last microsecond. It will still be dominated by latency-sensitive pa…

I'd argue that it doesn't happen more because it's (relatively) easy to bring labor onshore. But yes, if that path doesn't exist, I don't think that global companies are going to s…

This seems virtually impossible to enforce. It's trivial to restructure hiring a developer to write software, as licensing software from a foreign development firm, or any number o…

The assumption that companies won't offshore is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Companies already do a lot of offshoring - you think any rational actor in this space that was hiring …

How valid is this premise in an increasingly global world? Most of the companies that are paying salaries could (and already do!) have offices in other jurisdictions where they cou…

No, but if you gave these people extra $ to pay attention to you - on average, they would.

This cracked me up, I'm absolutely dying

It's not a great video. It's basically outrage bait for people who don't understand economics, by someone who also doesn't understand economics but uses words that sound like an ec…

nice try buddy, that’s ILLEGAL

The more retail traders, the more money that institutional traders can make! Institutional traders love the uninformed flow. It's no fun trading purely against other algorithms (an…

Faster transaction times result in tighter spreads, as HFT firms compete each other on the price-time priority queue. HFT firms compete against each other on time, and while yes, t…

It's kind of an open secret, but retail traders hopping onto meme stocks like DPZ and TSLA is, counterintuitively to an outsider, actually very profitable for HFTs and market maker…

Underrated comment right here

This looks to be a really cool project. A lot of existing profilers all seem to have different sets of limitations. The last cool profiler I looked at was Google orbit, but it's pr…

Cool stuff! Do you have a public branch you're working off of? I'd love to follow the progress as I wasn't aware that qemu user emulation for BSD was even a thing. I didn't get a c…

Yep! I have a patch to qemu based on one that never made it to master upstream. It’s a sub module in the repo

Hey, thanks for the insight - I didn’t realize this was a thing for some Nokia envs already - pretty cool! re: x86 make and shell, it probably won’t work well here because once a p…

Justification: https://github.com/valkmit/aws-graviton2-on-intel#justificat...

Thanks, I’ll add it now