• 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

      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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          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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    11 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.

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    11 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?