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> I can get this access in under 5 seconds by opting into the desired exchange privileges under EXC<GO> or most likely just pinging my Bloomberg rep

Because there is a marketplace. If Gamestonk is successful, there will be a marketplace for low latency feed + commercial support to configure them for you.

Exactly: features will be coming.

It just takes time for free software to match commercial offering at first, but eventually it surpasses them (too many example to list) for 90% of the uses.

If it let me cancel my Bloomberg subscription, why not?

All I want is reddit + twitter firehose sentiment mining, accurate plot of basic (EURUSD, wood futures) and not so basic (VIX) things.

I do not need to keep track of cargo ships on a map.

> and desirable.

evidence required.

> What's wrong with boring, especially if you have a family?

You are waiting for death. That is the only thing wrong.

So when threatened to have their source of funding cut (as most people wouldn't be able to pay out of pocket), a union of professionals attacked the moved as dangerous/cost cutting/etc? And they were supported by their employer industry representative associations??

Color me surprised!

> Some compression algorithms support checkpointing the compression state so that it can be resumed from that point repeatedly ("dictionary-based compression"

Is it some kind of memoization?

Very interesting, thank you!

Do you have a tutorial and some examples? If not, could you write one?

I sometimes deploy perl code at large scale for financial computing where only performance matters: with XS the overhead is low while gaining language flexibility.

Even in 2021, this is usually faster than alternatives by orders of magnitude.

PDL could be a good addition to our toolset for specific workloads.

> There are quite a few problems with that in the case of medical records.

Only if you have a paternalistic view

> Some of this information may be urgently needed at a time when the patient is not capable of giving informed consent for its disclosure or does not have it immediately available.

What if I accept the risk I may die due to bad luck/odd circumstances to still refuse the information being handled out by anyone but me?

> Some of the information may be vital to the future healthcare of the patient and would cause serious harm to them if it were lost.

Likewise, what if I accept future risks? I have more skin in the game from losing my records than an hospital losing them anyway.

> And in more of a more morally grey area, some information might be harmful to the patient if they had it.

Then what about I refuse having the information, in exchange of the information also being unavailable to anyone else?

Many people here seem to have the view "more information is good" but not collecting it in the first place seems better to me.

Hence I do no healthcare in the US, only in SE Asia where most services are available in English and Chinese anyway.

> What is she going to accomplish? Make money and make others follow her lead? And that would be great, right?

She inspired me and other in her boldness

> Maybe she is. I see no grace in her performance though. Maybe I'm too used watching Soviet Bloc gymnastics. Isn't this artistic gymnastics? I see no artisticism in her performance, just routine - it's like a robot doing it, but failing to land properly

Your lack of interest in pushing the boundaries or rejecting pre established rules (Who said gymnastics should only be about art? Why do you think soviet block country must forever be the model?) strikes me as dull and classicist.

You would be very happy in China mainland, where you have one model to obey and follow, coming from the top down, with no room for inspiration or breaking the mold.

> However unimportant you may consider Simone Biles, the fact still remains that she's accomplished far more than you likely ever have or will. So apply your own rubric and find a bit of humility

I love your take. It makes me happy to find the rare soul on HN who gets it.

Exactly. She does not bow down and obey. She keeps doing her thing, in spite of the obvious consequences.

It's very American! I like that!!

I wish more people in China mainland could learn from such examples

Good quote.

But if you believe it is reasonable or desirable to engineer social changes to increase the birth rate to be able to create and support economic growth, I think your priorities ordering is not right

> A lot of our economic machinery more or less bakes in some big assumptions about the size of the workforce not declining

Do it like software: if the implementation doesn't match reality, fixing the implementation is easier than trying to fix reality to match the broken assumptions

> Both "it's shitty to intentionally under-score her performances" and "it's great that she's doing it anyways" can be simultaneously true.

That I can agree with.

> The whole point is to generate an exciting event that an audience will watch. Multiple competitors having a chance of winning makes an event exciting

Disgusting. Do all the competitors also get to have a trophy in the end, like in modern day schools?

If you want everyone to have a chance, next move is to give them handicap. Make them wear lead belts. That'll be fun for you maybe?

Me, I want to see the top competitor crush the others after utterly dominating by doing daring moves