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by Firmwarrior 1431 days ago
I’ve been thinking about getting into HFT.. they’re always bragging about operating on millisecond/microsecond timescales, but they’re doing it on bespoke heavily-monitored systems. Meanwhile here I am shipping the same type of code to millions of people on commodity hardware..

I’m pretty sure that you could donate a big chunk of the million+ ill-gotten dollars to charity and make a lot of good things happen