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Wow, the splitting of hair reached nano-proportions. What is the difference again? Are you saying that if Bush lost, in the period 'after the election' Senate would've let him nominate a candidate he would like? Preposterous.

Book was Crichton's, movie was Spielsberg's

You're assuming that the quickest route to safest auto-driving lies via incremental improvements to existing systems and that's not necessarily true; see: AlphaGoZero

It's really low value compared to the most of the rest of the front page stuff. Interesting in a way but there is a lot of interesting stuff around that does not hug the front page.

Moscow metro has 250 stations on 3 times as much area (why did NY get to 750 stations?) and annual ridership of 2.4 billion. Train delays are rare, in my experience maybe one delay of 10 minutes a week (not counting the late night-time when intervals can get to 10 mins).

They stand as the arbiter of who will gain money and who will lose. There basically is a series of cases 'erroring parties vs Goldman' and 'erroring Goldman vs other parties' and whether Goldman will lose money is decided by an Exchange (hint: they rule in Goldman favor every time, making an analogy with forced arbitration even more proper)

And the rules defining what is 'clearly erroneous' and what is not is intentionally made vague because arbitrage of this clause makes the exchanges money.

>we do a lot of business together and I make you a lot of money >Other banks are watching and there are plenty of other exchanges to do business with

And the answer to that should be "sorry, if we will roll back your trade, SEC will put us out of business on the fraud charges".

>The idea that a tier one investment bank and a small trader should be held to the same "rules" is so wondrously silly... it's hard to describe but there ought to be a word for it.

Just like the idea that the aristocracy should be accountable to the same laws as commoners, right?

Yes, this is actually pretty surprising in the hindsight is 20/20 way. I disagree that FoxPro was great, it had too many bugs and issues for that, but the 'concept of FoxPro' was indeed great.

IQ also correlates with future-orientation, which is basically self-control and anti-criminal behaviour. Being more or less likely to commit a crime is a huge success predictor.

Well, flexibility is what I mean. Being an employer of a salaried employee means signing more than just one fixed paycheck per 2 weeks, not questioning when someone requests to be paid more and working with your employees rather than against them in some kind of exact-amount-of-dollars adversarial relationship.

Taking a salaried work means you are being responsible for the well-being of your employees, not just mindlessly handing out fixed amounts of money.