• DominusOfMegadeus
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    6 months ago

    It’s almost as if the made up nonsense of the stock market isn’t propped up by anything real.

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      6 months ago

      Boomers complain about youngsters wasting all their time playing pointless video games or fucking around on their phone and then turn around and do all this fake nonsense. At least video games are fun.

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        And if my actions in a game cause chaos, it’s much more limited to a silly little game world, rather than ruining innocent lives IRL.

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    6 months ago

    It seems all these glitches happen when a particular stock is halted. Whats the pattern here?

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      The pattern is they’re making shit up.

      Also, speaking from professional IT experience, there is no such thing as a glitch. (There always are things that occur and to be analysed and fixed, but the more critical the data is or the transactions are, the more robust things are built/done.)

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        “Glitch” is just the layman’s catch-all term for a problem.

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          Thought a glitch is when a graphical interface bugs with artifacts and such.

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          Like “hacking.” The vast majority of breaches are accomplished by password acquisition or social engineering. Why try to break 128-bit AES encryption when I can see your dog’s name on every instagram post? The user is most commonly the weakest point in security.

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          Especially by these “laymen”, which in fnancials absolutely know what they are doing.

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          Of course they do.

          By bugs (self or dependency), negligence, wrong setup or architecture, for example.

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    6 months ago

    Maybe they’re scrambling to do something with GME because of DFV’s post yesterday. lol

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    That glitch that discounts stock prices by a percentage?! What? Does that block of the code normally only discount a stock by a percentage under different circumstances?

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    6 months ago

    I read somewhere that Berkshire Hathaway HFT algorithm was to blame for the “glitch”.

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      HFT should be banned. If we’re going to keep up this illusion of a stock market, at least make humans do it.