[kortilla]

You misunderstand the quote. It’s where brains go to die from a societal perspective. It might be stimulating and difficult for the individual but it’s useless to science.

[threeseed]

Many advancements in computer science have come from the finance world.

e.g. LMAX Disruptor was a pretty impressive concurrency library a decade ago:

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

[immibis]

Who is using it besides LMAX?