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  • $600 Billion 'Fat Finger' Causes Deals Worth More Than Sweden's Economy To Be Cancelled

    Bill Poser ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2014 @ 11:10pm

    Re: Don't Question Normal Activity

    $600b is far out of the normal range of transactions. That's the Gross Domestic Product of South Africa, 25th in the world. The software could easily flag transactions considerably smaller than that and require confirmation.

  • The Worst Legal Advice Ever, Presented By A Clueless Blogger For An Insurance Company

    Bill Poser ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2014 @ 10:51am

    "stupider"

    Actually, "stupider" is perfectly acceptable. Many fluent and highly educated speakers of English use it. I myself am a native speaker of English with a Ph.D. in Linguistics and I strongly prefer "stupider" to "more stupid". Virtually all speakers of English accept -er comparatives of monosyllabic adjectives and reject them for most adjectives of more than two syllables. There is considerable variation with regard to disyllabic adjectives like "stupid".