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>These funds manage billions of dollars of client money, which forces them into highly liquid markets with scalable strategies.

Obviously this is true, but I think you're missing the point. Trading with ML on price data is a strategy that literally anyone can reproduce and, as is evident by reading the comments in this thread, is something that many people have tried to replicate. In that context, everyone using that strategy is effectively acting as a large fund. Further, a large fund or prop shop can deploy small-scale strategies, I think the limiting factor really tends to be leverage. But if they are just trying to make 5% returns for example, they can deploy a lot of small strategies that make ~5% returns. And that's not mentioning the countless tiny shops operating under the radar trading <10-50 million AUM (really, I think the average fund is much smaller than what you would imagine). What I'm getting at is that there are a lot more market players than the "big guys" and they will either have an equivalent strategy to you or will be better equipped to take advantage of that same alpha because of more capital/better data sources/smarter stats. With that in mind, it seems insane to suggest that you can find significant alpha in such a low-hanging fruit.

Remember that you are trading during one of the longest bull markets in history. It's not hard to make good returns, but it is hard to analyze risk. There are a million and one ways to make 100% y/y, but a fraction of a percent of those will continue to work in the long-term. With a black-box model you cannot properly assess risk. Even with well-understood models, this is something that real industry players struggle with: backtrading alpha != simulation alpha != profitable alpha != long-term alpha.
The worst kind of satire is the kind that is dead wrong in its' own motivation.

The internet did spread ideas. The spread of ideas can bring certain philosophical freedoms. 'Democracy' is too loosely defined in this context.

The entire attitude is really offensive to me only due to the sheer fact that I am amazed at the accomplishments we've made as humans in the short time that I've been around -- and the internet is one of those huge accomplishments that leaves me in awe every time I stop to think about it.

Previous history was widely categorized and considered by the data storage methods thought of during that time, and the dissertation of that information over the world -- the internet blows all previous methods out of the water by many orders of magnitude, while simultaneously lowering the barrier of entry to these stores of information down low enough to where even the most destitute human can usually find a method to participate.

Did the printing press have as many detractors? Have humans always expected the tools to do the entire job, rather than facilitating it?

'Can someone call up The-Internet and mention that they're late to a 3 o'clock democracy spreadin' gig?'

I joke, 'the internet' is a tool, a network -- not an entity. To anthropomorphize the tool into a lazy being that hasn't solved the promised problems would be silly.

but, you're right, humans have done a lousy job using tools, like the internet, to create equality; thankfully we seem to have a long enough future ahead of us to remediate such laziness on our own part.
Wouldn't checking if photon is polarized or not (using a 2nd filter) count as a measurement? I am not too versed in quantum mechanics, perhaps you can educate?
Feature detection (once called “object detection”) has been considered best practice over user agent sniffing for at least 15 years now:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040331111240/https://developer...
I am not sure sure how much these robots learned as the article claims based on the gifs they are specialised production like robots doing a single repetitive task each. Still impressive but not much different than a modern car factory.
Oh really? Example - just google "COVID hospitalization rates". You'll find hundreds of different sites/sources all varying degrees of accuracy. This is mentally taxing.
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I don't disagree that everyone should think carefully about there responses to others, I certainly do.

The slowdown for me is about 3 posts every 5 hours it seems. I'm not aware of the exact limits, do you know?
>Nobody serious denies that individuals of the latter race were less likely compared to individuals of the former race to win a given prize amount in the lottery of birth, due to historical and ongoing slavery, Jim Crow and systemic racism, war on drugs/black families, etc. Most people believe that the historical and cultural context justifies giving members of the latter race help to "catch up".

I have found that quite a few people seriously DO deny those facts. Look no further than several of the other responses to my comment.

As for taking things away, I agree that handicapping someone due to their race is not good. But unfortunately, society is a bit too complex to completely avoid it. The reality of many racial equality programs is not that less qualified candidates are awarded over more qualified candidates but that in cases where two candidates are effectively equal, preference is given to minority candidates. Because let's be honest, a few exam points here and there or extra-curriculars do not really make much difference.
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If the above is true, why would a fund not just allocate a small amount of resources to trade on OP's strategies. Either:

(1) OP's strategy performs worse than the alternative
(2) They already do this, and have resources that allow them to outperform OP at their own strategy

If the returns are really meaningful, i.e. better Sharpe ratio than just holding $SPY or some dead simple strategy like that, then (2) must be true at least _somewhere_.
Tresorit Send is another good end-to-end encrypted option (free, files up to 5GB):

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Yep. I’ve been a paying Dropbox customer pretty much from the start. The quality of the current Dropbox is atrocious and I ended up with entire directories of corrupted files full of null bytes as a bonus.

I am looking to move as soon as I find something which isn’t garbage.
Same. My nextdoor is pretty chill. No one talks politics too busy saving lost pets, recommending handymen and landscapers, and such, I guess.
Support just isn't universal enough.[1] In particular, for Chromium-based,

> Only supported on Android & Mac platforms (and only the "auto" value) for now.

Even where the property is supported, the supported language matrix [2] tells a depressing story.

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-hyphens

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens#Bro...
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Other than Facebook, who are they?
Their taxes are the real crime
Not in JP Morgan, apparently. As mentioned in the post, the code was barely touched since 2006. The rewrite was needed presumably so that the code could be better maintained (or hot patched, if the emergency arrived). And there was, presumably, more Python devs at the firm than Perl devs.
Universal healthcare is accomplished in many countries, so how does it not have a solution? Yes, it's a black hole for money - that's my entire point, it's not profitable, but it can be addressed with more money. No system is perfect, but just because we can't be perfect doesn't mean we shouldn't deliver more healthcare.

In essence, I can answer all of your challenges with this: yes, every problem is multifaceted, but that doesn't change the fact that EVERY problem can be improved by giving people more money and services, and usually the problems can't really be improved without it. And instead of giving more and more profits to the people who happen to already own the capital to invest, we should be using those profits to take care of our people. If the economy improves but wages are stagnant (as they have been for years), then a rising tide doesn't lift all boats, because some people are hoarding all the...tide (bear with me).

I come across this argument about relative poverty sometimes and I just don't get it. There's nothing relative about working 2 jobs, having less than 8 hours literally in the day left for sleep, having no leisure time, living paycheck to paycheck, not being able to afford nutritious food or having time to cook it, not having any power at work, having food or housing insecurity, not being able to afford to live in a good area, etc. I wouldn't say any one of these is the definition of poverty, per se, but my point is that these are objective factors of misery, it has nothing to do with percentile. Saying eliminating poverty is impossible because its defined as the bottom 10% is - sorry to be snarky - Ben Shapiro-level strawmanning and pedantry.
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Speaking of improv - we have a fun little community doing improv over discord voice chat. We have a few experienced improvisers running sessions and sharing their experience, and a bunch of novice people eager to learn and to play some games. Come join us, it's really fun!

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This is great stuff. Thanks for sharing it, I'll be checking it out to learn more!
Also considering you're the OP & are trying to argue in favor of this type of trading, it would be very informative to disclose what kinds of returns you actually made. It's hard to expect people to listen to your opinion in a game where everyone successful is motivated towards secrecy.
>> There is a great hunger out there for honest reporting

> The people have spoken with their dollars, and it is clear they are not willing to pay for it

People can and do change. Now seems like an opportune time to take risks by challenging those norms.
He was a fantastic writer and artist across so many mediums. I recommend his book “Drawing is Thinking” which captures his work and insights quite thoroughly.
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There are several more common STDs that do not resolve by themselves and cause on and off symptoms.
I've outlined it already, but let me do it again for you:

1) when making a static link archive (a .a file), include a .o with a static symbol(s) whose values(s) records the metadata that ELF would have recorded, which here is: a) dependencies, b) how to find them, c) the mapfile / version-script (at least which symbols are symbolic, protected, or demoted to local, and which, if any, are interposers.

2) on final link-edits only the direct dependency -lfoo arguments should be needed, and then link-editor should find the dependencies' dependencies... by looking at the metadata recorded in the .a files.

Really, it's very simple. libstool is a very bad attempt at layering this on top of the linker (recording metadata in .la files), but it doesn't work well. This functionality has to be in the linkers.
my point is that, a photon bouncing off the system doesn't suffice as a measurement, because photons and electrons are always interacting with the system, but the measurement/wave function collapse doesn't occur until there's some other type of observation that occurs, e.g. a photon that's specifically sent and read by the experimenter
I ran a BBS from my parents phone line in the early 90s and had as much techno-optimistic exuberance as you'd ever want. Everything you've said here is absolutely true. But I'd narrow it down to two basic laws:
1. The ability to run a site has fallen into the hands of people who have no idea how it works and aren't responsible for their actions (i.e, their personal stake has to do with share value and not maintaining a community), and
2. More importantly, the ability to share content has become too easy for people who aren't capable of any of the thought or curiosity that used to be required to reach a bare level of competence for their private musings to be translated into easily-accessed public speech.

The hurdle of technical competence was a useful, if imperfect, stand-in which barred the vast illiterate masses from creating echo chambers of mutually self-reinforcing ignorance. We all had a right to free speech in the 90s, but no one had a right to be heard. Facebook, Twitter, et al simply lowered the bar to being heard to the point where noise overwhelmed signal.
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Browsers do hyphenate, and this page enables it, with the "hyphens: auto" CSS rule. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hyphens

In Google Chrome, you'll see that it hyphenates "profes-sional" in the second story of the center column. It's still not enough, though, because it still leaves huge gaps in the justified text; it works best when you use width: 80ch. The page is currently using width: 600px, which is approximately 67ch.

(If you don't see hyphenation in Safari, that's because the developer didn't enable -webkit-hyphens. If you don't see hyphenation in Firefox, that's because the page's <html> tag doesn't have a lang="en" attribute.)
>Quite simply, the reason people that microdose are not getting thrown in jail is because they're not doing the other things that would lead to them getting discovered, i.e. engaging in crime or driving a car with significant (meaning, more than a person can safely swallow to avoid arrest) quantities of lsd.

Counterargument, it's well documented and studied that policies like "stop and frisk" and to some degree traffic enforcement disproportionately target minorities. Most of the people in SV "microdosing on LSD" are not.
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Aside from a notable exception in the Australian Capital, it's worth noting that in Australia you have the Federal Police (AFP) which is responsible for policing federal offences, but the states are responsible for enactment and policing of most things that Americans would consider "everyday policing".

The main issue this represents in your story is that it's not correct for the most part to present an "Australian experience" of policing, as the laws and enforcement are state level matters (of which there are ~8). A level i think we're missing might be city-based law enforcement? Each state has its own laws, population, and police force. while it's true we're not going to have as much variation as say France vs Sierra Leone, policing in QLD/ACT/NSW/NT/VIC is liable to be fundamentally different. furthermore, we've got federal gun control, and in a federal welfare system that would almost look like a universal income to many American contexts (indeed, I recall one discussion I had recently with an online friend about where the UBI rates being discussed as impossible were effectively the ones our welfare system currently provides), notwithstanding the difference in practice between remote indigenous/rural/urban/ migrant law enforcement.

All this can make it somewhat frustrating drawing analogies between the American experience and the local one (and I'm not just talking about Americans drawing lessons from ours, I also mean Australians being influenced by portrayals of American law enforcement and issues in popular media/culture). I imagine that's just as frustrating as pretending that law enforcement is the same across a nation as diverse as America.
Unrelated told your post, but please don't suggest that SCO Group was involved. The company in the 90's was simply SCO, and was a pretty cool company.

SCO Group was renamed as such from Caldera in the early 00's and was the people suing Linux users for copyright infringement.
That's not true. There are lots of enormous botnets that have been deployed against people like Krebs on security who are not particularly wealthy but have important information to share.
I know all about libtool, thank you, and I'm quite aware that it writes dependency information into its .la files. I use libstool every day. It sucks. This functionality has to be built into the linker.
I’ve been thinking about writing a boardgame with websockets a lot. The technology is here, the current climate for online boardgame is here, but weirdly it’s not happening.
Virtualization has pretty high overhead.

But on the Mac you have to pay the virtualization overhead to run Linux in a VM, then compound the docker overhead on top of that.

On MacBook Pro this is problematic because it eats battery and contributes to thermal problems.
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This is the situation in most areas of the US. A few lucky people are in new developments where the phone company has run fiber wire and offers a real fiber to the home connection, but most are stuck with a crappy connection via coaxial wires.
I suspect its a mixup with George Lois
http://www.georgelois.com/tommy-hilfiger.html
> Also I don't think you understand what "risk-adjusted" means.

You might be right; why don't you try explaining it for me? I suspect it is going to look a lot like a justification for why your strategy is fantastic even though it makes sub-par returns.
Even worse: not considering exact matches when autocompleting. I’m looking at you, JIRA.

My name is Stephen. My username in my company JIRA is `stephen`. It is simply not possible for coworkers to reference my own name in many fields due to autocomplete behavior. Every other employee named Stephen (or user with `stephen` prefixing their username) is presented, but mine is unavailable.
I think the answer is yes & no. If you come up with a sufficiently clever strategy using public data that other people haven't thought to use it's definitely doable. For example, someone with a good understanding of meteorology would've had a significant advantage a few decades ago (though trading firms have since caught on). You wouldn't need a perfect data set if the strategy isn't being used.

In terms of strategies based purely on market data, you are definitely correct. Any publicly (freely/cheaply) available market data is low resolution, lacking the full data from any point in time, and generally based on poor approximations of the actual data (elsewhere in this thread someone mentions that IEX's data is based on trades that get routed through the IEX exchange, which obviously misses any data you could get from the markets that make up 99% of the volume, dark pools, etc.).

I think the "sweet spot" is simply coming up with a strategy that nobody else has thought about, or else executing a better-known strategy more effectively than other market participants. Both are hard, but somewhat in the realm of possibility. The problem is that many people think there's free money to be made without either of these.
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You say that the 90s were a time of "ignorance of the masses", but in the 90s, no extremist right wing movement or anti-vacc movement or militia was capable of doing more than distributing xeroxed newsletters. The Facebook age is the supremacy of the "ignorance of the masses", perfected into the most powerful advertising platform of all time, to support corrupt power structures by literally demolishing the average user's sense of reality.

Can the internet still be a tool for empowerment...yea, but that window has been closing for the past decade, and in many countries like China and Russia is now completely shut.
If your current income and expenses are $X and $Y, there's some X and Y for which that will be true. But it's necessarily greater than X = 0. The resulting increase in prices will not compensate for the increase in income, for sufficiently low income.
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> The biggest reason why people join gangs is because they're there. It's a cultural problem above all else.

I'm going to challenge you to find a citation to back up this belief before you continue going through life believing it, because it's a dangerous one, rooted in ignorance, that causes racism.
There is much web you must have not discovered yet.
Modern finance is built on top of this type of technology. There are hundreds if not thousands of firms participating in "quantitative finance," attempting to use computers/statistics to predict markets. The vast majority of trades go through major practitioners of this exact idea.
>There is simply no way to align healthcare with capitalism, without creating perverse incentives around every corner.

I think there is and we already have it. The combination of every drug needing FDA approval with 20 year patents aligns coming up with new treatments with capitalist funding. Regardless whether you come up with a cure or "subscription model" treatment others can provide it cheaper once your patent runs out. That's why generic drugs that cost a lot of money to create end up costing cents later down the line. Aspirin costs very little at this point. People just expect every new treatment to immediately be available at low cost.

Where it turns perverse is in mostly 2 points:

1. Regulation changes. It's sometimes easier to lobby for rule changes that allow you to repatent a treatment than it is to come up with a new one. An example of this would be asthma medication.[0] The price of inhalers multiplied in 2008 in the US. Inhalers used chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) as propellant. CFCs were banned to protect the ozone layer, but inhalers got an exception. In 2008 this exception was removed, which meant that drug manufacturers needed a new propellant. They ended up using hydrofluoroalkane, but this is considered a new treatment when it comes to patents. As a result the drug company could charge higher prices because there wasn't as much competition anymore. This is an issue with how patents are granted.

2. Single manufacturer. When a patent expires for a drug anyone can make it, which drives down the price. However, for some drugs there is only one manufacturer that can keep the price low, so nobody else is interested in making that drug. It then becomes possible for that company to increase the price and people will have to pay it. This was the case with Daraprim (Martin Shkreli).

Despite these two problems, we've never had as many options in healthcare and it is steadily improving. Conditions that were a death sentence just a few decades ago, such as HIV, are now manageable with treatments. I don't think that this shows that the system is irredeemably broken.
That is simply not true. My up-to-date Windows 10 machines frequently reboot without me telling them to do so. I'll be working on some project, leave the project windows open and put the computer to sleep over night, only to find the computer rebooted next morning. Presumably the computer woke up in the middle of the night, showed the update prompt to the empty room, and since nobody intervened, killed my programs and rebooted.