At some point you have to charge people per byte transferred, otherwise you inevitably experience "The Tragedy of the Commons." There is a simple economic solution to people bombing the exchange with useless traffic. A more complicated solution would be to regard it as a denial-of-service attack.

Those hot-lamp bulbs cost $500 every time they burn out, and they generate a LOT of heat. Other than that, the projectors are pretty cool.

Arrest them for distributing kiddie porn!

No, laying off employees makes the stock price go up. When Meta laid off employees, they kept the consultants. As a consultant, that always puzzled me. Under Washington state law, they have to give 60 days notice of any layoffs, but consultants can be walked out of the building by security guards with zero advance notice... which is why Meta has so many security guards.

"You, in contrast, got pushed out of your role, which doesn't sound very smart."

What's not smart is blaming victims of capitalism for being victimized.

Not random, no. Just add some latency period. That would do most of the job. Another solution is to penalize trades which are shorter than some time period. You can still make them but it will cost you. Either of these things would eliminate HFT.

If you are trying to do what is called technical trading - looking at graphs to decide which day to buy or sell - this is why you do not become rich. The people that invented the math based trading 50 years ago have moved on to this super fast analysis and trading.

For those of you that think these a-holes do not contribute anything, they do provide liquidity. It keeps spreads tight - and lets you do option trading in between the bid and ask. (When the bid is 105 and the ask is 115, the technical traders snap up your options trade at 110 - but only if you do the limit order.)

No it is not. The Mozilla foundation has pissed away tens of millions of dollars on "features" nobody asked for and which have since been removed, like Pocket which cost US$20M alone. What's hard is to keep the CEO's multi million dollar salary funded while also enabling them to waste money on things no one wants, which in turn is only done to justify their salary by looking busy.

This is like claiming it's hard to keep Wikipedia funded. Again, no it is not, because they have somehow spent millions of dollars producing multimedia bullshit that hobbyists could have done for free if there was any demand. Simply don't do that and funding is no problem.

The problem as ever isn't the thing, it's the people managing the thing and claiming that their malicious interference is necessary. It's only necessary for their yacht-buying capabilities.

Like the person who responded to my comment earlier in this thread, I just switched inputs when it asked for my network credentials and I was off to the races. He didn't say he tried that. If a person doesn't tell me exactly what they pushed and when, I don't assume. I've done too much tech support and similar.

EVs require less service especially since they don't have an engine, dealers make their money selling service and parts, and engine problems are the source of the biggest and most expensive service jobs.

They'd be perfect if you could get a tradesman model with the big battery, but you can only get the upper trim levels with it, so you're paying extra for upholstery you're going to fuck up when you get in the truck with concrete on your pants or what have you. Maybe they're ideal for someone who only does cabinetry and trim, though.

Pickups are bought by two kinds of people: those who will tow, and those who think they will. For the first group, range anxiety is real. For the second, they will only imagine it will affect them, but it would if they actually tried to tow.

To be clear there are lots of little trailers out there that don't affect range much, but there are also lots of TTs which absolutely do.

Crypto is about crime and JP Morgan Chase is about money laundering for human traffickers.

How has Tesla proven that with their non-autonomous driving system (It's not even level 4, let alone 5) that mistakes the side of a semi trailer for the sky and drives under it?

Hell, it may have actually been done to force it, in order to bolster America's espionage programs both at home and abroad.