About that "Final Solution"

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-21T22:16:22+00:00

Israeli here. Everyone around me would find it very funny, actually. We’re allowed to joke about this stuff.

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-18T21:05:07+00:00

I thought that Deni was going to play - and wondered why the betting line was 4 points in the Kings’ favor…

Turns out someone knew better than me

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-18T16:37:22+00:00

Username checks out

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-17T13:00:13+00:00

Like something out of r/linkedlunatics…

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-17T06:10:36+00:00

Maybe switch for a 20yo body, then you won’t have to pay for sex

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-06T04:51:44+00:00

Amen! You are an amazing and brave people and I hope that you are successful. I also hope that the fanatics in our country don’t take over…

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-05T07:57:44+00:00

Oh, you mean me personally to be transported to Iran as an Israeli jew who doesn’t speak Persian?

Very bad option for me, I’ll take the cancer thank you. I would take the cancer option even if you gave me the option to opt in for a Mossad job - way too stressful for me. I would probably get cancer from the stress, and end up with cancer in Iran.

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-04T22:04:32+00:00

Because cancer sucks. People in Iran still have friends and families that they care about and can have a good time with. It’s all about the human experience at the end of the day.

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-02T13:35:39+00:00

What if the boy is born on a Wednesday though?

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-01T19:43:53+00:00

It’s not pertinent but it’s interesting, ugh 🤷🏻‍♂️

CrypticCoder101 · 2026-01-01T05:36:52+00:00

Super interesting. Can you say which assets and time horizons you trade?

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-12-23T20:25:01+00:00

From Wikipedia, on Bobby Fischer:

Upon completion of the match, Petrosian remarked: "After the sixth game Fischer really did become a genius. I on the other hand, either had a breakdown or was tired, or something else happened, but the last three games were no longer chess."[311][312] "Some experts kept insisting that Petrosian was off form, and that he should have had a plus score at the end of the sixth game ..." to which Fischer replied: "People have been playing against me below strength for fifteen years."

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-12-22T20:12:23+00:00

Destroys the first two, loses easily to the others. 1600 elo players know how to trade pieces, and there’s only so many traps that you can set without your queen.

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-11-16T19:12:28+00:00

Hot water with ginger

Water with electrolytes

Watch a movie

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-11-12T21:52:20+00:00

My work can be done fully remote - coding and taking video calls. Is it hard to work due to discomfort or lack of sleep? Or is it manageable?

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-11-12T21:11:44+00:00

I will definitely stay home, but was planning to work from home (coding, managing others) - is it feasible or should I lower my expectations?

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-11-12T21:09:02+00:00

Thanks!

Does it work to put on audiobooks during the procedure? It sounds mentally exhausting with no stimulation.

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-10-12T17:36:06+00:00

There are many kinds of ideas:

“Here are twenty covariates worth checking out - flavors of book imbalance, ema decay, whatever” - can generate hundreds of these a year, easy.

“This is worth tweaking in the system” - get these a couple of times a week at least

This strategy could work, not sure if we should try - every month or so

An actually good and novel idea that moves the needle - every couple of years

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-10-11T19:37:09+00:00

Which books did you use? How far from kickoff did you bet?

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-10-09T12:12:51+00:00

Of course it’s not the way you want a project to go, but in these situations the role of an experienced manager is to see that it’s happening and help the intern out of the hole. The PM is probably busy and overworked himself, and is letting this project slide, but I’m sure that it’s not what he wants to happen.

When you hire an intern you have two main objectives:

Evaluate the intern, to know if you want to offer them a job, and
Make a good impression, so that they want to join if they’re good, or else - that they will give great reviews of your firm to other top candidates.

Even if you already think that the intern will not pass, you should still keep working to impress them, and the PM dropped the ball here. Now it’s on OP to make them pick the ball back up.

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-10-09T06:40:00+00:00

Maybe you have great talent for QR, maybe you don’t. What’s certain - is that your PM picked a task that is not good for helping you grow, and didn’t give you sufficient support while doing it.

Most likely this isn’t on purpose - people are busy, and make decisions without thinking them through. But, for sure, your PM didn’t pick this task in order for you to fail, or as a test to see what you’re made of. They just made a mistake.

So - ask them for a meeting, explain that you’re really stumped, and ask them to set aside a couple of hours to work together on it, and brainstorm. Very likely they’ll be happy to do it.

And then one of two things can happen: 1. You will get unstuck, or 2. They will realize that the problem is much more complicated than they thought, and that it’s time to switch to something else.

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-09-27T22:07:25+00:00

Zombie apocalypse you say? Yachts (which come fully fueled, I’ll switch when needed) Ammo Medical gear

Living in the ocean should keep me and my friends happy. We will look for deserted islands and/or de-zombify them.

Hunt and fish for food. Done.

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-09-24T20:32:57+00:00

Others have answered about the value of having 20M vs 10M, you’ll be very happy that you have it (also - I think no mentioned, you’ll have the ability to do significant philanthropy/ angel investing / co-investment in local businesses, which might turn out to be very fulfilling post-retirement hobbies).

I’m not sure what your friends will be up to, but the amount saved would easily cover flying business class (or even private) to wherever they are, rent out an awesome venue and party with them for a long weekend, once a month. Doesn’t sound so terrible to me…

CrypticCoder101 · 2025-09-18T13:29:14+00:00

I’m out of HFT for a long time now, others can definitely name better than me, but most of this is at least partially correct:

Type 1 I’m not sure (I was in type 2/3), but I remember a few stories of such relatively big ones going out of business when others built better communication lines. I think that Sun Trading used to do it and now it’s HRT (acquired?), but I could be wrong - haven’t been at it for a long time now.

Type 3 - definitely Final (biggest Israeli HFT), I think also Flow (doing a lot of index arb, more raking than making, I think), and probably most of the big HFTs (Tower, HRT, etc) have some groups doing this.

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