so basically it goes like: "someone says that someone said that someone else thinks that.."

I was at a conference in Sept (actually YC startupschool:P) and there was a comprehensive speech by Rigetti about quantum computers and how much more powerful they are and how much less energy they need. In the article above it's not clear what technology they are planning to use.

if you'd like to know where to eat it, table 1 has it all :) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022763/

4 years ago, when I was working in Deloitte, it was impossibile to think about using Apple products, half of the software wouldnt work! Good to see some change, are visio and project compatibile now?

If the trend continues, could it be counter-productive also for the tech industry? Are the housing price the outcome of fair demand/supply?

"80%" it's very unlikely, say it is true, you just do the opposite and you have free money. I suspect the correct overall percentage should be much closer to 50%. Finding a profitable strategy should be much more difficult than "do the opposite of day traders", right?

What does "do the opposite of day traders" entail?

If it's to not trade daily then yes, having a profitable strategy is trivial: just buy index funds.

If you think it's possible to reliably trade better than day traders, you're probably just as deluded as them.

That being said, this data set is unlikely the be representative. The best traders are using something like IB, not eToro.

No, I was just pointing out that 80% is not very likely and is probably some sort of bias or mis-representation. In fact it would be a great compliment for them because they would be getting consistently the opposite of the market (If they overall lose money it must be that at least on the weighted average of their bets they get it wrong, maybe one big wrong and many little right ones, or mostly all moderately wrong, etc..).

it is at least partly because 100 % of day traders do less than 100 % of trades. And they play against people who are vastly more intelligent, better equipped, etc... on average. As a day trader, the odds are overwhelmingly against you.

"It’s one more reason why NSA may prove to be one of Washington’s greatest liabilities rather than assets." WOW, never though I'd read that on something like Reuters, he put his foot down.. :s

It's an op-ed.

In some country that kind of auction is considered gamble indeed and it's against the law (most EU as far as I know). From a Mechanism Design point of view, they are maximizing their own profit and they also expect their players to be not very rational entities and so they don't nee to use a truthful auction.

Exquisite!

I totally agree about "[attackers] prefer to use system weaknesses over software exploits" for the reason mentioned (if you use someone password chances are no alarm will ring, if you scan every port on every possible network.. meh, you may get noticed).

I've seen a growing number of systems tracking the fingerprint of the user not only the password (e.g. salesforce), I think that is the way to go because it is very difficult to train users against every possible social exploitation.