Yeah, $300,000 is obviously enough for a doomsday scale machine, it's really crazy that they would deploy this globally before investing some money in researching and testing the technique, maybe even trying it on a small scale and observing the effects.
No casual users really have any idea how effective the various programs are, and MSE seems as effective as anything else, and it isn't nearly as annoying as AVG/Avast/etc., so it is spreading like wildfire through that user group.
(My group is somewhat poorly defined, anyway, the group of people capable of uninstalling the old and then installing the new, but utterly uninterested in trying to find responsible research into the capabilities of the various programs, so they just notice a few comments and try things out)
Probably something like "Fuck am I fucking hungry".
I am trying to decide if you glossed over things for the funny, or if you really didn't think through the fact that as little as a few hundred years ago, any human that spent any time around some other mammals would know full well that the young ones drink the stuff that comes out of there.
Farmers use Roundup (and associated resistant crops) because it is (financially...) cheaper and less risky than other methods, not because it has a huge impact on productivity. Newer uses of it are to reduce fertilizer use (no till and such).
So it isn't particularly likely to lead to a food shock (but I guess it could have some impact on prices, though I have no idea how large that would be).
All the crazy action was on electronic systems that are allowed to "trade around" the primary exchange. The huge spikes shown everywhere represent a very small volume of trades.
So the worst hit stocks were NYSE listed stocks that traded on electronic boards (because the NYSE did have a quiet period, there was fast, thin trading in those stocks). NASDAQ never paused trading, so they were able to sit on the other side of some of the crazy action, limiting how crazy it got.
NASDAQ says that NYSE shouldn't have paused, NYSE says NASDAQ should respect their pauses.
A lot of people were talking about how there was wild action on the currency markets well before the drop started, so it is quite clear that a fat finger was not the only thing going on.
If you can get it by making a phone call (or equivalent), I don't see why you would think of it as someone else's money.
It is sort of similar to the employer side of payroll taxes, the distinction is largely in the label that is assigned to the money (the 401k situation is a little different, as you can choose to spend your money now and forgo the matching).
At the very least, the employer is going to be examining the matching funds in aggregate, and treating them as a cost of employing people (so it is part of the employer-employee relationship, and it makes a lot of sense to treat things like that as compensation).
"temporary destruction of nearly 1 trillion dollars of value" barely even makes any sense.
I suppose that is where investment is sort of different than gambling; in theory, 5 trades of $1,000 each can drive up the price of a $50 billion dollar company by $5 billion dollars, using $5,000 to "create" $5 billion of value, which is then "destroyed" by another $5,000 in trades (those numbers are wack, but they get the idea across). In gambling, there is always a winner, with the games fixed so that the house makes money over time.
(So, notionally, no one really won or lost the $499,995,000 involved in the investment increasing and decreasing, but damn if it isn't fun to talk about 'all that value' getting destroyed)
Usually when I misplace my wallet or cellphone, it is because I have placed it in the wrong pocket (cell phone goes in left front pocket, wallet goes in right front pocket). So I look around trying to find the wrong thing (because there is already something in the other pocket).
Fortunately, this does not happen often, and does not take all that long to puzzle out.
The volume can be explained away if the order was for a basket, and there were lots of stocks that behaved at least similarly to PG (but then the trade isn't quite so outsize). The circumstances around PG may have made it worse than the others.
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Yeah, $300,000 is obviously enough for a doomsday scale machine, it's really crazy that they would deploy this globally before investing some money in researching and testing the technique, maybe even trying it on a small scale and observing the effects.
You have bought into their authoritarian propaganda.
There is a Wikipedia link for WAAS in the summary. The Wikipedia article discusses how the satellite participates in WAAS.
GP, you and a moderator have all chosen to 'go with your gut' and not bother investigating, and you each missed it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Augmentation_System#Space_Segment
Is there a reason you chose to repeat what I said?
It's not really a paradox, it just isn't an answer to how life originally arose.
(It is perfectly consistent for life to have originated somewhere else and spread here)
No casual users really have any idea how effective the various programs are, and MSE seems as effective as anything else, and it isn't nearly as annoying as AVG/Avast/etc., so it is spreading like wildfire through that user group.
(My group is somewhat poorly defined, anyway, the group of people capable of uninstalling the old and then installing the new, but utterly uninterested in trying to find responsible research into the capabilities of the various programs, so they just notice a few comments and try things out)
Probably something like "Fuck am I fucking hungry".
I am trying to decide if you glossed over things for the funny, or if you really didn't think through the fact that as little as a few hundred years ago, any human that spent any time around some other mammals would know full well that the young ones drink the stuff that comes out of there.
You are very enthusiastic about this hardware with fraudulent markings.
If that is because you are using some of it, good luck.
If you weren't paying for it, you probably wouldn't be able to use it.
Right, there is no technology that would allow you to take parts from one human and stitch them into another.
Of course, plants aren't nearly as fussy about it as human tissues are.
What if frogs tasted like strawberries?
There might be some cross pollination, but there isn't that much. There also might be some other gene transfer, but there isn't that much.
Mostly, this is the weeds evolving their own natural resistance.
Farmers use Roundup (and associated resistant crops) because it is (financially...) cheaper and less risky than other methods, not because it has a huge impact on productivity. Newer uses of it are to reduce fertilizer use (no till and such).
So it isn't particularly likely to lead to a food shock (but I guess it could have some impact on prices, though I have no idea how large that would be).
Except for the part where there are physical goods in stores and actual services are provided by many people working in the services sector.
All the crazy action was on electronic systems that are allowed to "trade around" the primary exchange. The huge spikes shown everywhere represent a very small volume of trades.
So the worst hit stocks were NYSE listed stocks that traded on electronic boards (because the NYSE did have a quiet period, there was fast, thin trading in those stocks). NASDAQ never paused trading, so they were able to sit on the other side of some of the crazy action, limiting how crazy it got.
NASDAQ says that NYSE shouldn't have paused, NYSE says NASDAQ should respect their pauses.
A lot of people were talking about how there was wild action on the currency markets well before the drop started, so it is quite clear that a fat finger was not the only thing going on.
People are trying to do more with it.
Well written flash from 7 years ago would probably run just fine on modern low power hardware.
If you can get it by making a phone call (or equivalent), I don't see why you would think of it as someone else's money.
It is sort of similar to the employer side of payroll taxes, the distinction is largely in the label that is assigned to the money (the 401k situation is a little different, as you can choose to spend your money now and forgo the matching).
At the very least, the employer is going to be examining the matching funds in aggregate, and treating them as a cost of employing people (so it is part of the employer-employee relationship, and it makes a lot of sense to treat things like that as compensation).
Not a good comparison. If major economies collapsed, there would be no exterior markets where gold had value.
That doesn't mean people would not use gold, it just means Zimbabwe doesn't tell you much.
Yeah, that's 'all' you have to do.
"temporary destruction of nearly 1 trillion dollars of value" barely even makes any sense.
I suppose that is where investment is sort of different than gambling; in theory, 5 trades of $1,000 each can drive up the price of a $50 billion dollar company by $5 billion dollars, using $5,000 to "create" $5 billion of value, which is then "destroyed" by another $5,000 in trades (those numbers are wack, but they get the idea across). In gambling, there is always a winner, with the games fixed so that the house makes money over time.
(So, notionally, no one really won or lost the $499,995,000 involved in the investment increasing and decreasing, but damn if it isn't fun to talk about 'all that value' getting destroyed)
Usually when I misplace my wallet or cellphone, it is because I have placed it in the wrong pocket (cell phone goes in left front pocket, wallet goes in right front pocket). So I look around trying to find the wrong thing (because there is already something in the other pocket).
Fortunately, this does not happen often, and does not take all that long to puzzle out.
If you can't figure out how to change the batteries in a keyless entry fob, you probably don't even need the leatherman.
And yes, that little bit of laziness is worth every penny that those batteries cost.
The volume can be explained away if the order was for a basket, and there were lots of stocks that behaved at least similarly to PG (but then the trade isn't quite so outsize). The circumstances around PG may have made it worse than the others.
He is defending the NYSE. The bad trades happened on other markets. He is not disagreeing with the article.