1,909 karma · joined October 9, 2008
If raising a chess champion is a good thing, I can't imagine that raising a starcraft champion is a bad thing.
If high frequency trading is so needless, why does the entire market go into shock when the traders panicked and left on may 6th 2010?
Most importantly- if these products are useless and harmful, why do people keep buying them?
You get crushed. Now you crush everyone you know of the opposite gender to figure out who it was. You then email the person who crushed you. But she only crushed you to figure out who crushed her...
Not a perfect measurement, but it is the standard.
Experience in telecoms, embedded systems, and video games industries is looked upon highly.
The following is a list of firms that engage in proprietary trading, a good deal of them hire software developers for automated trading systems: http://www.quantnet.com/quant-internships-graduate-recruitme...
Part of it is having to spend a large chunk of your profit on audits, which supposedly certify that your company is healthy and non fraud committing.
This certification was granted to Enron, Lehman Brothers, and many other companies that absolutely did not deserve it.
The S.E.C. should take this as an opportunity to learn something about what investors really want. It isn't regulation. Its profit and growth.
Many of these arguments are meant to prove that success does not imply merit. This may be true, there are plenty of rich people who did not work hard to earn their wealth.
These arguments should be removed.
We should be more worried about whether hard work implies success or not. After all, this is what will determine if people decide to work hard or not.