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I think what's so surprising is that they would run a secretive program in such a conspicuous manner, not that the secretive program exists.

In most of the places I've been in SE Asia and South America, there are separate government hospitals that are the only affordable option for the poor. If you have cancer, they're not going to do much for you.

It's highly dependent on location. I use it while traveling, and yes in a few countries it's useless, but I've met 300-400 people over the last 7 years. It's added more value to my life than any other single app (even though I've never paid a dime for it).

For the record, I'm male, mid 30's, and average looking.

It's fairly common for governments to provide a basic level of care for free or heavily subsidized, but not cover more expensive treatments. It's certainly not exclusive to the US.

> So you are saying HFT will avoid your market order in this case, while HFT will provide better price when they are the sole counter party in separate liquidity pool?

Yes, absolutely. The best feeds (tightest spreads) are only given to specific clients who are requested to trade exclusively with them. If they detect you splitting your orders up between venues, they'll worsen your feed. The feed they'll send to public lit ECNs will generally be their worst (widest spread).

So you're hoping get price improvement by crossing with other trader orders in the book?

Unless you have a good high frequency predictor and low latency order management (you don't), you're going to experience adverse selection. Either because you're taking resting orders that HFTs are smart enough to avoid or because your resting orders get run over by informed traders.

Nope. It's not better for known uninformed traders. If you mix them in with informed traders, market makers must widen spreads.

This is very obvious in institutional FX. Pure "retail" flow will get quoted much tighter spreads by banks and market makwrs than you'll see on any ECN. Yes, it can get skweded against predictable flow, but a true "noise" trader won't be affected by that and will definitely be better off with tailored liquidity.

The title seems misleading. Unless I'm missing something, all he did was scrape a news feed, which should only require a couple days of work to set up.

The fact that he left it running for years without finding the time to do anything with the data isn't that interesting.

Why not just let the market find its own equilibrium? If people need to live there to produce valuable resources, then the cost of those resources will naturally rise to cover the expenses of those employed in those industries.

If you compare the historical rate of improvements in computing power and algorithms vs rate of improvements in building scale, you'll find one is a whole lot more likely to reach its goal, even if the rate of progress slows significantly.

How could creativity in AI not get better?

Sure, progress will likely not be linear or without challenges, but we already have the human brain as proof that it is possible.

I've never noticed that behavior from Google when searching for any other topic. Have you?

Are locals particularly attached to that name?

Seems like a referendum for a name change would be a good idea, considering the current typical usage of that term.

What do you mean by the opposite?

The search behavior is the same whether $foo is a popular generic term or something niche.

One area where Google search is terribly broken is porn.

If your search for some specific term "$foo", nearly every result is just 'search site $bar for "$foo"', taking you to the site's search page, regardless of whether $foo is actually found on the site.