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_Shipwreck  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New York Stock Exchange Suspends Trading

It might be fear of something I don't understand; but I'm just not a fan of having our world economy depend on an automated system of high-frequency transactions. It's great that they managed to shut this down on time, but a more difficult to identify "bug" could have horrible consequences.