kkim

Sure, this strategy will work for him, but will it work for everyone? What if you're not an absolute idiot?

They make it sounds as if being an administrator is fun. Surely the best job in physics is to be someone who gets to spend nearly all of their time doing research and has job security and few responsibilities.

Prediction: Ron Paul('s botnet) will win with 99.94% of the vote.

If it doesn't make money trading, then it isn't better than existing algorithms, because that's what you're competing against.

I voted this up because I agree with the first paragraph, but I don't like most of the specific big questions you list here.

I can't think of any way of saying this without sounding mean, but the type of big questions you list here are the stuff of pseudo-intellectuals. These are Omni magazine big questions (if anyone here remembers that). I'd prefer Economist big questions.

Aren't some mutually exclusive?

I kind of suspect 2) too.

Interesting. Sometimes you need charging as a design feature, not just as a business model.

Considering the competition, that's quite a statement.

... of the 769 companies in his study.