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Every Friday, Jane Street buys pizza and wings. Usually most of the wings are eaten, and the rest are taken home by employees. Recently, however, a lot of the pizza doesn’t get eaten. This week, for example, there were at least 5 whole pies left uneaten when I left.
I would take them [...]

We just got a new law to go alongside everyone’s favorite, the Patriot Act. It’s called the Protect America Act, and it expands the Bush administration’s ability to perform surveillance on, well, pretty much whoever they want. It’s not clear why they need this, as they usually tend to just do whatever they [...]