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Shorter-dated options bets have become so popular they have their own nickname, 0DTE, shorthand for zero days to expiration. Already this year, there have been tens of thousands of mentions of the hashtag #0DTE across Twitter, YouTube and Instagram, and a litany of online communities on Reddit, according to analytics company Hootsuite. A few years ago, there were hardly any such mentions.
Amateurs Pile Into 24-Hour Options: ‘It’s Just Gambling’
wsj.com
But tweet IDs are big numbers, bigger than 2^53. The Twitter API now returns them as both integers and strings, so that in Javascript you can just use the string ID (like “1612850010110005250”), but if you tried to use the integer version in JS, things would go very wrong.
Examples of Floating Point Problems
Julia Evans
The most important question in geopolitics today might be, Will countries that break up or clamp down on their biggest technology firms also be able to seize the opportunities of the digital revolution’s next phase, or will their efforts backfire?
The Technopolar Moment
foreignaffairs.com
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