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From: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@gmail.com>
To: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] caml trading
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:25:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd3390903141025w3d0580dbgf97ab4f40386903d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hc1wyl9q.fsf@aryx.cs.uiuc.edu>

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>
> Having said that, about your company, Jane Street,
> aren't you part of the people that put the countries in such trouble ?
> Do you create wealth ? It seems you are just a parasite ... that
> exploits some loopholes in the system.
>

What Jane Street does is very far from the part of finance---and the ways of
thinking---that caused these troubles.  You can't just lump all of finance
together as "the guys who caused the trouble"; that would be like condemning
all engineers for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Fi1VcbpAI

The beginning of the talk gives a flavor of role that Jane Street actually
does play in the markets, so that's a good thing to watch if you're
interested.

y

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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-13 19:52 Yaron Minsky
2009-03-14  0:56 ` [Caml-list] " Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-14 17:25   ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2009-03-16 14:24     ` Yoann Padioleau
2009-03-16 14:30       ` Jim Miller
2009-03-16 18:35         ` Yaron Minsky
2009-03-16 18:55           ` Andres Varon
2009-03-16 15:31       ` Markus Mottl
2009-03-17  2:37         ` David Baelde
2009-03-17  3:06           ` Alexy Khrabrov
2009-03-17  3:22             ` Yaron Minsky
2009-03-17 13:56               ` Markus Mottl
2009-03-17 15:26                 ` Mike Lin
2009-03-17 17:14                   ` Xavier Leroy
2009-03-17 17:05                 ` Lawrence Austen
2009-03-17 22:35                 ` xahlee
2009-03-18 10:38                   ` Philippe Veber
2009-03-19  9:49                     ` Loup Vaillant
2009-03-17 11:34           ` Kuba Ober
2009-03-16 23:23     ` Mike Lin
2009-03-14  7:25 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-15 18:26   ` Yaron Minsky
2009-03-14 19:30 ` Jim Miller
2009-03-15 18:20   ` Yaron Minsky
2009-03-16 17:01 ` aditya siram
2009-03-16 17:38   ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-17  7:27   ` Philip

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