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Re:Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges by Terr_ on Monday April 15, 2019 @09:12PM (#19670295)
> The origin of the term is kind of comical to modern ears

It's interesting, but I don't think it stands out as "comical" from the finance realm, given that programmers unironically talk about "race" conditions during the "handshakes" from "tunneling" with a "certificate" in order to to "serve" up "pages".

On a far-more-obscure note, the etymology of "computer" itself can be traced back towards "something which counts using small pebbles of limestone."

Re:Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges by smnrchrds on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:49PM (#19670733)
It is comical in the sense that software bugs being named after a literal bug (a moth to be exact) is.
Re:Trading bots are running wild on cryptocurrency exchanges by JackFr on Monday April 15, 2019 @11:49PM (#19670990)
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