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Evil Fluffy posted:US Politics: Those $20 bills are yuppie food stamps. That's not actually a new thing? I've heard that stupid phrase since the 90s.
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zxqv8 posted:It *is* pretty much a different side of the same coin, now that you bring it up in that context. Accelerationism is just suggesting that people must suffer further and that will at some magical break-point force them to seek change. It's a different way of rationalizing the same nasty bullshit republican legislators are doing to people now with all their regressive bullshit; making being poor bad enough is seen as a motivator in the accelerationist view, just as it is in the right-wing view ultimately. Honestly I think if the states keep polarizing we'll be able to point out just how horrible conservative policies really are without inflicting them on the entire nation. I mean, sucks to be Wisconsin but they not only elected walker once, but didn't throw him out when they had the chance. Speaking of incredibly lovely governors, how's polling for Florida? Do we even have a chance at getting rid of Rick, or are we stuck with him until 2018? It really sucks that we have an off-year governor cycle.
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Apr 5, 2014 07:10
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skaboomizzy posted:RealClearPolitics has an average for the calendar year so far of Crist +4.5 points. Most of those polls are from January, but there hasn't been anything earth-shattering here since then to sway the numbers in a meaningful way. Well that's something good. Not that Crist is great, but at least it's not Rick Scott again.
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Apr 5, 2014 07:34
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Talmonis posted:The downside of the Federal government giving him back his cattle and leaving, is that it has emboldened the morons who went looking for a fight. This might start to happen a lot more often, in increasingly rediculous situations. Honestly I'm glad they're not in the business of escalating into big dickwaving contests with unstable nutjobs. There's no point - we know where the guy lives and can stop him from profiting by blocking his ability to sell on the open market. At no point does this need firearms involved.
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Apr 17, 2014 04:04
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Fried Chicken posted:Klansman who shot 3 people had previously worked with the police as part of the Greenesboro Massacre in 1979 Just so the OP isn't suicidally depressing, you should include this lighter note.
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Apr 27, 2014 00:19
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Nessus posted:Can you explain that one? I'm curious, and I mostly perceive advanced finance as a sort of ZARDOZ-esque destroyer-god. It's pretty simple, really. Traders are mostly in NY, but for whatever reason exchanges are located in NJ. Trades are either submitted over the internet or leased lines. HFT scammers setup an exchange right at the bottleneck and offer a few shares of whatever people are selling on other exchanges. When someone buys them, they snap up all available shares at the other exchanges and re-list them higher. It works because traders send trades to all the exchanges at the same time, but messages take time to travel at light-speed. The HFT leeches make sure they have a single-fiber no-buffer path from the canary exchange to all the others, so that their reaction to a trade can make it before a less-optimally routed buy order can. The solution to it was ingenious - find the exact time it took to reach each exchange, and delay messages such that they hit all of them on the same millisecond. But yes, it's straight-up theft and they're making millions a day doing it. Edit: The non-technical explanation is they found a "legal" way to get advanced warning of nearly all transactions so they can buy and instantly resell the stock for a small profit. This is also why their arguments of "but but but liquidity!" are a complete joke - the trades would always have gone through without HFT getting in and taking a cut. Harik fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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Apr 27, 2014 00:48
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Install Windows posted:9/11 dude, that simple. True. The thing that threw me was the fact that there were dozens of exchanges, all trading the same stock. I thought NYSE listed stocks had to be on the NYSE exchange before I read about HFTs.
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Apr 27, 2014 01:26
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Pope Guilty posted:That's a pretty clever little scam. If the solution is known, why can it still happen? I'm assuming that at this point the investment houses all time their trades so that HFT doesn't work against them, but a brokerage doesn't give a poo poo if a smalltime investor has to pay a few extra cents. There's also the matter of kickbacks - while in a sane world an exchange would charge for transactions, in the HFT world the trader is the product and they get paid to trade there - the money is made selling access to those trades faster than they can reach the other exchanges. NYTimes longform article on it. It's the new-journalism conversational tone, I like the style, others hate it. Fried Chicken posted:Abortion: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/america-s-abortion-free-zone-grows.html Speaking of abortion: Florida decided on a twofer - possibly criminalizing miscarriage in one case, and putting a fuzzy line of "fetal viability" without a set gestational age, to make sure that doctors don't risk getting close to that line. Given his uphill battle against Crist, I don't see Scott vetoing an anti-abortion law. Harik fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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there was that in North Dakota, Republican state senator Stanley Lyson flipped his vote because
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Rexicon1 posted:Never engage sedanchair. Got it. That's an unfair assessment. The original implication was that everyone was a man-child who fertilized his totem, and pointing out that they're as mocked as Libertarians are here is a valid counter to that. With that logic, you could claim that D&D was pro-drunk driving due to a recent thread.
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