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Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)

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Re: Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)

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Not sure i get the implication, something wrong with the company?

Some people just love dropping “yikes” type comments and then never explaining themselves.

A few of those same cringe “yikes” users appear to have downvoted my comment too. Truly a strange bunch.

Re: Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)

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How's that? HFT lowers the barrier of entry for ordinary participants who just want to invest their savings either directly or through something like a pension fund, because they get all those benefits I mentioned, and those benefits are useful when you are only executing a trade once a month or year. It only increases the barrier to entry to people who want to do HFT themselves on a smaller scale, because they now c…

We all know that middlemen are bad. We don't need an HFT middleman.

How is HFT a middle man? We're not talking about things like market makers in this discussion

Re: Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)

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I'd want to know why they had such a system as a single point of failure

No business is designed ideally. Now do you want the job or we move to another one who will accept this?

Fortunately in important industries that attitude doesn't fly.

Imagine a single person making a single mistake causing a building to collapse? Or a nuclear plant to meltdown.

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