this morning means today and not october

fwiw

Apparently this show wasn't meant for men. Bieber and Bruno Mars? no thx

bruno mars cant be taller than 5'0"

lol jesus christ

mistook some trending topic as something that happened today. nvm then

**** off

Twin Peaks was having an event tonight where all their waitresses were wearing lingerie for tonight's show. lol Hooters.

i think bruno mars is pretty good

bieber just a huge feg tho

Bruno Mars was surprisingly watchable on SNL.

ok yeah, is bruno mars an oompa loompa? same face too

sooooo...who is supposed to provide you w/ letters of recommendation for grad school if you were a ****ty college student and you barely even knew your professors 5 years ago? I got my current employer locked in, nfi where the other two recs are supposed to come from.

Yah, you're ****ed as far as professors go. I would ask former bosses/coworkers. I don't think you really have any options. If I remember I'll ask some people at work about that.

were you in any clubs/orgs that the heads of could rec you for? or a frat or something?

Did your Grand Wizard write you a sweet rec?

Just bring the admissions people to Jamba Juice

idk what that means

Oh that's right, you never saw his face

oh now i see


dkgo couldnt write my rec because he doesnt use capital letters

earl campbell doc on nbcsports right now. ****ing crazy how he destroyed defenses.

pandora skit was elite

all this talk about wizards, got my thinking about this

Not really. They tighten spreads and make markets easier to trade in, but they don't really create any wealth in any significant way. What I do doesn't really create any wealth, we basically just move money around and take a cut of what we move around.

If by quants you mean High Frequency Trading, then yeah I think that has put in huge risks of systemic failure. In today's marketplace, everything is traded off of correlations and relationships, which is pretty far from the original intent of the Stock Market and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and other marketplaces. With everything so closely tied together, one error in an algorithm or one bad input can move the market in such a big way that it creates a massive systemic risk for everybody.

As for what I would do about it, I'd be fine with getting rid of all HFT systems. Kind of a tangent, but I think what is happening right now in our entire economy and not just trading is a massive push towards efficiency and technology, which cuts human jobs that can't be easily replaced. I think cutting HFT would be slightly bad for the markets in that they would be less efficient, but it would have positive side effects of creating more need for human jobs and reducing systemic errors, and the good created from that outweighs the efficiencies that are lost.

looooool

so hilarious

Went to a Twin Peaks in Des Moines when I was there for work training. Pretty hilarious, waitresses all couldn't have been more than 21 at the oldest. God bless America. Coworker was getting serious about trying to get a franchise up in Canada and about how great it would do in places like Alberta.