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[John Stoner]

It's a argument about proportion. Is buying/selling risk necessary? Yes.
Should it account for 8% of the GDP? Should it absorb the best and brightest
of a generation of engineers? Not seeing the case for that.

Now we've gotten pretty far afield of Python. Who's excited about the DSL
techniques they're talking about tomorrow night? I am.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
<mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu>wrote:

> The article seems to assume there is no social value in
> pricing/buying/selling risk. I disagree.
>
> It reminds of a joke I heard some time ago about different parts of the
> body arguing about which one is the most important. The brain thought he
> would win but turns out the brain does not work without an hematic system,
> immune system, digestive system, etc. The financial system is the equivalent
> of the hematic system as it deals with allocation of resources. It can also
> be considered as an immune system because it in charge of dealing with risk.
> Even in the human body these systems occasionally fail but it is better to
> fix them than shut them down.
>
> Massimo
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> On Apr 13, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Michael Tobis wrote:
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> Well, there's also this point of view:
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> http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-get-into-finance/
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> mt
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