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    Language of the future

    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php
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    Could someone explain this with plain English?

    HFT = https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Algorithmic_trading + https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Front_running
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    Why I think Java will take the lead over C++

    Has anybody tried writing JVM in Java?
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    Best way to learn Python?

    http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python
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    “Ayn Rand and Jesus”

    "Religion was born when the first con man met the first fool." --Mark Twain
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    Should Congressmen be allowed to trade on Inside Information?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
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    crony capitalism to destroy capitalism

    I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy is the right word
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    Henry Paulson Gave Hedge Fund Advance Word of 2008 Fannie Mae Rescue

    Another practice Goldman engaged in during the Internet boom was "spinning," better known as bribery. Here the investment bank would offer the executives of the newly public company shares at extra-low prices, in exchange for future underwriting business. Banks that engaged in spinning would...
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    GS days are numbered, to be drawn and 1/4'd

    From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression -- and they're about to do it again http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405?print=true
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    10% unemployment but H1B visas accelerating

    your half-life as a worker in corporate America is about age thirty-five. Around that time, interviews get tougher. Your obligations make you less open to relocation, the technologies on your resume seem less-current, and your ability find that next gig begins to decrease.' By thirty-five, half...
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    Depression in the US, My ass.

    True. Unless USA aligns Immigrant & Non-immigrant Visas and Outsourcing to Caste system in India http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/may/03touch.htm and Human Rights in China http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-tech-apple-workers-forced-to-sign-no-suicide-pledge/20110504.htm...
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    10% unemployment but H1B visas accelerating

    85% Indians are willing to migrate to USA at $200/month salary due to lack of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility in India.
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    What is the optimum tax rate on the wealthy?

    "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax" --Einstein
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    What is the optimum tax rate on the wealthy?

    "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it." -- Albert Einstein
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    What is the optimum tax rate on the wealthy?

    And please, learn about http://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/
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    What is the optimum tax rate on the wealthy?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege in USA = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy in Russia
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    What is the optimum tax rate on the wealthy?

    I guess you are living in a cave. USA had 94% tax rate in 1944. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#History_of_top_rates
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    Socialism nearly killed the Pilgrims...but it produces great places to live

    Socialism == Preventing race to the bottom. Capitalism == Promoting race to the top. Globalization is zero sum. Capitalism is NOT zero sum.
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    What is the optimum tax rate on the wealthy?

    Globalization is Zero sum. Unless USA aligns Immigrant & Non-immigrant Visas and Outsourcing to Caste system in India and Human Rights in China, American middle class will be destroyed. I endorse 70% tax rate on the wealthy.
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    10% unemployment but H1B visas accelerating

    Capitalism is NOT zero sum. Globalization is zero sum.
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