The latest trend on Wall Street is a practice called high-frequency trading. As this story out of MIT makes clear, it could be as big a risk as the mortgage market was.
The crash in 1987 has been blamed in part on the automated selling of stocks. As the market fell, more and more systems automatically sold. It turned what might [...]
Categories: Economics
Bibliodysyey has a great collection of high resolution posters of various nuclear power plants from around the world. Well worth a look if you’re into deep engineering nerdiness.
Categories: Science
If you were to add up all the strange things I have seen on the internet, I believe it would not come anywhere close to this. Do not click this link if you ever want to go anywhere near plumbing again.
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Categories: Art