The smart money says there will be an increase in global average temperature next year. It seems guaranteed that said increase will be at least one half degree in temperature. Intrade – Global Temperature Anomaly for 2012 (Jan-Dec) to be 0.50 or more.
Category Archives: CurrentEvents
“Shuttle Tydirium, deactivation of the shield will commence immediately. Follow your present course.”
The United States Air Force will mount the third mission into space by its small space-shuttle lookalikes, the X-37Bs once memorably dubbed “secret space warplanes” by the Iranian government tomorrow if all goes to plan. via Mystery X-37B robot spaceplane returns to orbit tomorrow • The Register.
Internet’s Down
Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud volumes for N. Virginia is down and they are having trouble launching new instances. Here’s the full text direct from the console: 10:38 AM PDT We are currently investigating degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region. 11:11 AM PDTContinue reading “Internet’s Down”
A Novel Approach to High Frequency Trading
Interesting… HFT has proven to be singularly destructive. Despite the claims of it defenders, it does not increase market liquidity; it merely increases trading volumes without improving ease of execution. 60% of US stock market trading volume comes from HFT. HFT has undermined how markets operate. Institutional investors have diverted some of their trades toContinue reading “A Novel Approach to High Frequency Trading”
SLS AMG Black Series Spy Spotted!
This vehicle is ridiculous. I love that they take it up to the Nordschleife for testing. Check out the bumper destruction near the tailpipes. SLS AMG Black Series Spy Spotted!. via mbworld
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