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ChristianMarks

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Stopped coming here after some comments of mine here on HFT were downvoted by abusive financial types. A few years after my comments appeared, Ivy League economics professors made the same points. But enduring the animadversion of pompous know-nothings on Hacker News while waiting for the endorsement of Harvard University professors isn't worth it.
  1. Scriptogr.am will go belly up 9/14/15 (scriptogr.am)
    1 points 0
  2. Is it Time to Abolish Middle Management? (psychologytoday.com)
    1 points 1
  3. Newsweek Bitcoin story quoted Satoshi Nakamoto accurately (latimes.com)
    9 points 4
  4. In Search of a Stable Electronic Currency (mobile.nytimes.com)
    8 points 11
  5. Bitcoin: The Cryptopolitics of Cryptocurrencies (harvardpress.typepad.com)
    2 points 0
  6. The Truth is Terrible (papers.ssrn.com)
    2 points 1
  7. What is wrong with the word "performant"? (english.stackexchange.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Good Riddance to Mt. Gox (slate.com)
    1 points 0
  9. Unorthodox: Rabbi resigns over sock puppetry (onthemedia.org)
    1 points 0
  10. Capitalism vs. Democracy (mobile.nytimes.com)
    24 points 23
  11. Full-time IT job security increasingly wobbly (computerworld.com)
    1 points 0
  12. Teachers in Lee, MA, Return Merit Pay (funded by Gates Foundation) (dianeravitch.net)
    2 points 0
  13. Elsevier’s David Tempest explains subscription-contract confidentiality clauses (svpow.com)
    66 points 11
  14. The Wall Street Dollar is toileting (publicsphere.org)
    1 points 0
  15. An understated job advertisement (linkedin.com)
    24 points 54
  16. Map of the flow of bitcoins around the world (inthecapital.streetwise.co)
    2 points 0
  17. Introducing a brand new way to share everything. (getprsm.com)
    1 points -1
  18. Aaron Swartz, Lawrence Lessig and the Technocommunist Menace (3dblogger.typepad.com)
    3 points 2
  19. High-Frequency Trading: Networks of Wealth and the Concentration of Power (uncomputing.org)
    17 points 14
  20. Amazon review spat: author Nicholas Nissam Taleb versus economist Herbert Gintis (amazon.com)
    4 points 0
  21. Since I loathe sysadmin, I raised my rate to $500/hour. What would you do?

    I detest system administration and prefer programming, research and development but seemed to be relegated to IT. I have decided to stop complaining and instead raise my sysadmin rate to $500/hour. How do you handle…

    1 points 0
  22. Virus prompts US Navy and DoD to switch to Linux (techrepublic.com)
    2 points 0
  23. Neutrino HFT communications link could boost high-energy physics (forbes.com)
    2 points 0
  24. What does the HN community think of ITIL?

    Am I alone in regarding ITIL as mind-numbingly boring and platitudinous?

    1 points 3
  25. Recruiter fee agreement?

    I received a call from a recruiter, who mentioned that his firm wanted me to sign an agreement that should I be placed in some firm and do not stay the minimum 90 to 120 days, I would be liable to them for "a percentage…

    2 points 6