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The probability of my ever receiving a Nobel Prize is pretty much ZERO. Coincidentally, that is almost the same probability of anyone being able to reach me at 2:15AM, unless they come pounding on my door (and I still might not hear it). I value my sleep and I have set all of my phones and devices to automatically go into DND mode sometime around 11PM. If it were you, would you rather have a good night of sleep and b…
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Maybe a custom format for twitter (and even github: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com )
Yeah, it seems like this is a feature that was added for a few domains this week including Medium, GitHub and Twitter.
The probability of my ever receiving a Nobel Prize is pretty much ZERO. Coincidentally, that is almost the same probability of anyone being able to reach me at 2:15AM, unless they come pounding on my door (and I still might not hear it). I value my sleep and I have set all of my phones and devices to automatically go into DND mode sometime around 11PM. If it were you, would you rather have a good night of sleep and b…
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> no soon-to-be-Nobel-laureate wants to find out in some news article I understand saying that's a problem, but realistically, that's a problem very few people would be unhappy to have. Yes, it could be horribly inconvenient to stumble through a bunch of congratulatory communications before you could confirm you've actually won, but compared to wining a Nobel, it's a trifle.
Exactly same argument can be made for being woken up by a call at 2AM.
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Because normally they have hundreds of journalists and scientists onsite a ceremony and don't want to make them wait.
> they have hundreds of journalists and scientists onsite a ceremony Maybe they shouldn't have done that before checking if the person was ok with being awarded the prize?
Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel. They even have signs "Reserved for Nobel Laureate". As far as I know, Stanford does not. Doesn't Google had the leaders in auction theory now? Would someone please devise a way to run a stock market as a repeated clocked auction, so that prices change, say, once every 5 minutes and high frequency trading doesn't work.
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I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?
I don't. That sounds like an anti-solution, i.e., something that seems to solve a problem, doesn't, but does create new ones. Is there a real problem that it does solve? Is there a geographic/cultural aspect to it?
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What’s the value in making HFT not work? What harm is it causing?
HFT can increase market volatility and exagerate trends. They are not beholden to and can run counter to the idea of an "affirmative obligation" to help keep the market operating orderly. Hence the occasional flash crash or more minor blips.
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What’s the value in making HFT not work? What harm is it causing?
It is hundreds of millions of dollars that are being spent for an activity that is a tax on investors. The fact that it is better than what existed before doesn't change the fact that we can do better yet.
Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel. They even have signs "Reserved for Nobel Laureate". As far as I know, Stanford does not. Doesn't Google had the leaders in auction theory now? Would someone please devise a way to run a stock market as a repeated clocked auction, so that prices change, say, once every 5 minutes and high frequency trading doesn't work.
I thought the 'penalties' associated with trading aged shares were pretty clever. Among the rules for the LTSE [1] is that you get increased voting weight for your shares as they age (IIRC). I've no idea whether any of those will really help in practice. But it sounds like it's worth a try.