CENTURY

摘要

Lunch at Renaissance Technologies—the secretive, $32 billion quantitative hedge fund headquartered in East Setauket, New York—has long been a communal affair. In a sparse dining room overlooking a tree-dotted Long Island lawn, the computer scientists and mathematicians who develop Renaissance's trading algorithms gather to dine on deli takeout and bottled water. The conversations typically tend toward mundane workday chatter: children, vacations, sports. Yetin this remote 50-acre setting, far from Manhattan's financial district and Connecticut's hedge fundrow, one person —co-CEO RobertMercer—stands out for expressing a singular passion: politics.