HFT in the Banana Land
"inhabitants of the Western world need to realize that the tallest structures they can see in the landscape are the face of what may be a new kind of God: finance."<p>Oh come on, so much drama for a slick lean tower in sparsely populated land, barely visible to anyone but local fishermen.<p>Compare it to, say, this:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar</a><p>This is a very prominent military installation that spoiled shortwave communications for years, and nobody dared to say a word against it.<p>If the choice is between Ares and Hermes, I am choosing Hermes.<p>(Disclaimer: I am a trading software engineer).