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Comment Re:Whales (Score 1) 82

High frequency trading should be banned / prevented / disabled by breaking the day into 100 ms chunks, and randomising the order arrival entry. This woud enable late-arrived orders to jump ahead of arbitragers and so forth 50% of the time. Then you won't need low latency connection to the exchange. Then you don't need low earth orbiting satellites beaming shit about because speed of light is faster in a vacuum. Then you can use your twisted pair copper to trade fairly against the big guys.

Comment Re:Pretty thin on why (Score 2) 72

Nobody will bother implementing this. The first example they gave (Nearly 50 percent of the hyperlinks in Supreme Court decisions no longer work) is actually solved by the following process: make a backup of the webpage in question during the Supreme Court case. I like the fact I can change content and correct spelling mistakes live on the web.
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Submission + - NZ woman fired for using uppercase in email (nzherald.co.nz)

tomachi writes: "This is hilarious. An accountant in NZ has been awarded $17,000 NZD for unfair dismissal after her boss fired her without warning for using uppercase letters in a single email to co-workers. The email, which advises her team how to fill out staff claim forms, specifies a time and date highlighted in bold red, and a sentence written in capitals and highlighted in bold blue. It reads: "To ensure your staff claim is processed and paid, please do follow the below checklist.""

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