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Re:Why Do High-Frequency Traders Cancel So Many Orders? by philipov on Friday October 09, 2015 @09:52AM (#10359994)
Doesn't the fact that he understands, and intentionally uses pejorative language make him dishonest?
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Re:Why Do High-Frequency Traders Cancel So Many Orders? by evanpw on Friday October 09, 2015 @09:57AM (#10360018)
"Scare quotes ... may be used to imply that a particular expression is not necessarily how the author would have worded a concept."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes

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Re:Why Do High-Frequency Traders Cancel So Many Orders? by aaronchall on Saturday October 10, 2015 @09:23PM (#10367661)
Scare quotes are also bad composition. Since the author is the author, the author should word concepts correctly and take full responsibility for word choice.
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Re:Why Do High-Frequency Traders Cancel So Many Orders? by philipov on Saturday October 10, 2015 @10:22PM (#10367774)
Not only that, scare quotes are often used precisely to misrepresent an idea and then avoid responsibility for it, which seems like a pretty dishonest rhetorical strategy to me.

He's technically "not lying," but many people won't notice the footnote nor appreciate the difference. All they will hear is "front-running == should be illegal"

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