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Re:$400M in assets to bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a fa... by TheAlchemist on Sunday September 10, 2023 @08:10PM (#37461350)
Out of curiosity - in what domain do you work ?

I find the work in finance / tech very interesting. Societally useful ? Almost certainly not. But probably still more than most good-paying tech jobs.

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Re:$400M in assets to bankrupt in 45-minutes because of a fa... by daft_pink on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @01:43AM (#37477247)
I work in finance/tech, but my code doesn't execute million-dollar trades automatically. Cash transactions are reviewed by a human, and its mostly data analysis type work.

It's one thing to make recommendations or calculations and give the report to a human. It's another to start trading high volume in real time automatically.

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