I'm surprised nobody called you on this

The Great Gig in the Sky is in dorian mode that wonderfully mirrors the dorian in one of the previous songs in the album, Breathe, but then, towards the end, it seamlessly turns into a sweet ionian melody that ends the otherwise conflicted piece in a soothing tone.

While I wouldn't say they 'discovered' it, a succession of triads in that interval is not that uncommon. You'll find it in Money on the same album for example

Too many examples. The whole Dark Side of the Moon is variations on the same tune. The tune is especially aggressively deconstructed in the song Money.

Yes, as far as I know, Bruce Springsteen is musically not very interesting. But if you can't see the difference between him and Lady Gaga and Pink Floyd, then you know nothing about modern music

But while we are at it - when was the last time your Beethoven integrated ambient sounds seamlessly into his music, like Pink Floyd did with cash register sounds that they wowed sublimely into a 7/4 beat of the song Money (that later erupts in a 4/4 swing guitar solo)? When did he play with the color and the texture of the sound the way modern artists do ever since the early jazz times? When did he use intricate polyrythms with counter-beats - did he even use ONE syncopation in his work? His music is just flat!

True. But Foxconn is no more evil than the farms for making its production more efficient. If somebody would like to force Foxconn to stop making its factories more efficient, they might as well force farmers to dump their tractors and combines.

Do you also care as much about all the people that lost their work when agricultural automation became wide spread? Do you cry for the thousands of workers that might have been tilling the land manually instead of just one guy riding a tractor - when you eat your morning cereals/bread/whatever? And don't tell me you only eat stuff from your local farmer's market, because those people use automation too. How is factory automation any different?

If any law was perverted into a problem it was the case of a perverted lawmaker. You can 'pervert' any law. You might have had a case in 1947 saying 'if today they ask to ban national socialism, what are they going to ban tomorrow?' But today, after 60 years of not banning any additional ideologies you are just silly.

So what *are* you saying?

Doom is not censored in Germany after the case was appealed by the distributor. Wolfenstein 3D is. And yes, it is a silly case based mainly on the fact that the bureaucrats in 1990 did not understand what a video game was. If someone goes through the motions to release Wolfenstein from censorship just like they did with Doom, I'm sure it would be free to distribute.

It's forbidden because the Nazi movement is still alive today and the majority disapproves of it. If any German politician campaigned for removing the nazi ban law, the public would tear him into shreds.

It isn't. The law permits the use of the symbols in research and educational contexts. Every person in Germany learns about the Nazi regime at school at large and in negative context. Just ask your nearest German.

How does any of this apply to Iceland?

That law has been around since 1947. How much has it slipped towards "you cannot criticize the government" since then?

Not. One. Bit.

You have no clue.

Welcome to the internet, newcomer!

Email - good. Spam - bad. What's so baffling about it?

You are mixing apples and oranges here. Automated trading and HFT are not the same thing. Automated trading does provide substantially improved liquidity and reduced trading cost. HFT on the other hand does not demonstrably reduce trading costs (or at best the jury is still out on that) and the liquidity it provides means your transaction can go through in a fraction of a second rather than in one second. It provides no liquidity when the market is under stress as the HFT machines are plugged out immediately in non-standard situations. On the other hand, HFT takes a lot of capital out of the market for that 'service'. Is that fraction of a second of additional liquidity worh it? IMHO not.

That article is funded by Citadel LLC that owns a HFT platform. It provides no hypothesis, no metrics, no tangible goals. It's pretty much an essay reiterating a couple dozen pro HFT papers and press pieces

Maybe you could educate yourself as well and listen to some other opinions - like that of one of the fathers of automated trading.

You don't know what you are talking about. The Fed did not print all that money. It's the so called M2 type of money that has grown so rapidly. Please, educate yourself a little bit before you start spewing fire all over the internet about it.

I don't necessarily disagree. But I thought the comment I was reacting to was too one-sided. True, the expectations about the production values and the price level are stricter. But development in general is cheaper and the customer base is larger.

Additionally, the expectations on game graphics are not that hard on the developers. A new iteration of an existing engine is enough - sometimes with barely noticeable changes.

On the other hand, the software development industry has moved on significantly since the early 1990's:

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- development tools are more reliable, languages more fool-proof
- there are extensive frameworks available - graphics, communication, logging - myriads of well tested libraries for pretty much anything
- development processes are better understood and are readily supported by various development tools
- automated testing and building software is much better
- operating systems are much more robust

These are all things that make development much cheaper and more stable.

And then we see the presentation of the new Call of Duty and its great new innovation is the inclusion of a dog. Where exactly do the $100 million (or whatever the ridiculous amount is) go?

While mostly valid points, there are a couple of strange ones:

Why should this be a problem for a battery switching system? Isn't it much easier to cool the batteries when they're outside of the car? Seems like this is a case of an advantage for the swapping system.

This is also an advantage of the swapping system. Batteries are the most rapidly degrading part of the car. Assuming they are good for 500 charges and the range is 100 miles, they will need to bee replaced after 50 000 miles. So you'll need more batteries than cars upfront, but in the long run, you will keep discarding the degraded batteries without an additional hassle to the owners and it will even out.