Whilst I like the thought behind idea, these ocean garbage patches aren't easy to clean up with a barge.
> For many people, the idea of a “garbage patch” conjures up images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called microplastics. Microplastics can’t always be seen by the naked eye. Even satellite imagery doesn’t show a giant patch of garbage. The microplastics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can simply make the water look like a cloudy soup. This soup is intermixed with larger items, such as fishing gear and shoes.
Better to clean things up at the source. It is estimated that 90% of all plastic waste in our oceans come from just 10 rivers in Asia.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci...
https://m.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-fr...
And yes, they also started building river interceptors as that is more bang per buck. They still seem to think they can clean the existing stuff economically too.
It would be interesting to see $ spent per tonne of garbage removed from the rivers vs ocean. Like you said, far more economical to focus on the source. Given no project has unlimited funds, why spend resources on the"garbage patch"? I suspect that they still work on the ocean part because:
1. Is better for fundraising;
2. Is a fun engineering challenge;
3. fun to work on big boats;
4. Helps with recruitment;
Check their Interceptors.
https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/
Also, the ocean garbage does need cleaning up too
Cursory search turned up nothing for me. Can you point me in the direction where I can find free (or low cost) market data that you mentioned?
This link has more info
Also, to the point about Bloomberg's high subscription fees, they provide all imaginable financial data under the sun. This google demo with CME is just CME data, which is a small, albeit important, part of market data, let alone the broader financial data. Furthermore, in many cases the data itself is owned by the exchanges, so Bloomberg's fees reflect passing on the (at times exorbitant) exchange fees. NYSE, NASDAQ, CME, etc.. are historically the ones that are the gatekeepers of the data and putting up financial barriers.
And yes, you're right on these costs. Some exchanges will charge large 5 figure sums annually just to give you a port so you can subscribe to some unreliable (UDP), poorly thought out, over-engineered-in-the-early-2000s, market data protocol that requires you to spend weeks of engineering effort to debug and normalize because hey... every exchange wants to use a different tech stack and none of their customers want to use a vendor library, so they don't exist.
The irony is a lot of organisations that are used to dealing with these feeds struggle when it comes to crypto, because they're not used to a world of websockets and public facing IPs, or the risk of exposing their machines to the internet.
One company I know pays a small 5 figure annual sum to a shitty "cloud solutions provider" for what is essentially just a dual NIC reverse proxy providing access to Coinbase via a stable IP. The is provider of course charges thousands per IP. Managing public cloud infrastructure is just outside of its comfort zone.
"This innovative collaboration with Google Cloud will not only make it easier for our clients to access the data [...] CME Group customers will be able to access all real-time CME Group data [...]" (emphasis mine) [0]
As for [1], it has a Contact Us form and a link to [2] which talks about onboarding and an "On-demand, pay as you go model".
Could you point to the free market data pub/sub and/or specific steps to recreate the demo? Thanks!
[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cme-group-to-offer-...
[1] https://www.cmegroup.com/market-data/connect-data/cloud-mdp....
Admittedly, the bones they'll throw us in the process do look like they'll be cool, tho.
True. But I'm also guessing that in 5 years I'll be more frustrated at the level of control they're exercising with thing they're currently building next to it. More so than I am with the market they're commoditising today.
And you get the worst of all deals, see Shrinkflation
My point is we shouldn't trust businesses to be moral, and I don't. I'm just angry at the NYSE
I'm not suggesting Google gives away information as a purely altruistic endeavor. However, Google's ulterior motives, should they have any, are irrelevant to the value of the information itself so long as it hasn't been edited or tampered with.
Competition is good.
Nit pick: you've got your units mixed up; minute is a unit of time, and light-year is a unit of distance.
Distance/time * time = distance
Waiting a "light year" would be a year.
Yes, you are correct that astronomers talk about seeing into the past by X number of years when we look at a galaxy X light years away.
Industry average for those colocated and trading using software is going to be closer to something like 20-30 microseconds
You notice that “open” Android is increasingly dependent on closed source “Google Play Services” and Google uses the closed source parts to beat OEMs into submission?
Same with Elon Musk. I remember him being compared to a comic book hero. Now he's an alt-right racist (if you are a leftist) or an evil globalist technocrat (if you are a rightist).
Every company whose business model isn’t “I give them money and they give me stuff” is shady.
It's also worth mentioning that lots of businesses that you pay money to, track you in similar ways. The origin of it was probably supermarket loyalty cards in the pre-internet era.
The association with no-cost products is not really appropriate, and mostly seems to be progaganda from people with other business models. It was the web scale and pure digital products that let the cost drop to near zero, which synergises with ad-supported offerings, (just as "free" ad-supported TV and radio were a thing for decades). However, it also allows other business models, such as non-profits like Wikipedia, netflix subscriptions, or subsidized by necessary hardware purchases.
Similarly, just because you pay money for various Google services, doesn't really gave them any motivation to not track you.
The only time that ads don't really bother me are the rare occasions I watch sports. The breaks are more natural.
He hasn't changed though, and little has changed in what he's actually doing too. If anything, he's more mellow now than he was when he was younger. People's impressions of him have been highly twisted IMO.
as well they should be, they carried it forward like Atlas carrying the globe.. in the beginning it was competition, then, we could not stop..
Someone's gotta do it
Most of the stock market data the avg person sees is 15 minutes delayed by request of the NYSE, and in a world where trades are reaching the 3 millisecond and below mark, that's a very long time. So Google opening up what could be <20ms data might be able to help some applications. Not saying it's a silver bullet either.
I wish they would take on even more big projects that need to be tackled. Like I want to see a google branded remote controlled barge out in the pacific garbage patch that the public is controlling through a google web app or some other insane, good projects. Idk when you deal with finance companies all day, even google seems moral.
However, it's not looking good this quarter for all tech cos