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Re:A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Tradi... by LfLxfxxLxfxx on Sunday March 10, 2019 @07:11PM (#19355343)
> It doesn't hurt anybody

Not anybody in particular but it does hurt society as a whole. It's one of those things that make the rich richer for no reason other than them already being rich.

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Re:A Gazillion-Dollar Standoff over Two High-Frequency Tradi... by QuackingJimbo on Sunday March 10, 2019 @09:09PM (#19355902)
This is fair to say, but HFT is a very small industry. The number of people getting "rich" off of HFT is less than 100. The rest of us are just comfortably compensated tech workers, same as a Google or FB engineer
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