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Re:SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading by fallentimes on Monday November 17, 2008 @02:42PM (#367241)
I don't know. Does it? A relatively small number of people made a ton of money off of it while a relatively large number of people got burned.
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Re:SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading by sokoloff on Monday November 17, 2008 @04:37PM (#367388)
I was assuming that your measure of badness was "the more people who know this secret, the worse kept it is". By that measure, the limit of a poorly kept secret is exactly public information.

I'm having a hard time coming up with any other continuous measure of "badness" of secret keeping.

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Re:SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading by fallentimes on Monday November 17, 2008 @04:57PM (#367407)
Me too. It will be interesting to watch this play out.
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