Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades

Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by lallysingh on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:50AM (#20592278)

> Meanwhile, all this stuff costs money, people, resources that aren't available for actual productive work instead of overhead.

That's a very high standard. What's productive? What's productive enough, in your book, to be worth the effort used here?

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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by dalbasal on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:32AM (#20593242)

Median productiveness is plenty, assuming this is not productive activity.

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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by lallysingh on Saturday August 03, 2019 @01:23AM (#20598821)

But what's "productive?". Farming? Manufacturing? What if the farmed food is unhealthy? If the manufactured good is wasteful?

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