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UAL went down. WSJ down. NYSE halted. coincident? edit: based on everything that i've heard/read, the incidents are most likely not related. sorry for asking t
by swasheck 11y ago
UAL went down.
WSJ down.
NYSE halted. coincident?
edit: based on everything that i've heard/read, the incidents are most likely not related. sorry for asking the question.
- notNow 11y agoDoes this have anything to do with the Chinese stock market rout and the rumors circulating that it's synthesized to a certain degree?
- swasheck 11y agointeresting question and i'm not familiar with the rumors. is it that the shanghai index crash is synthesized? not being completely fluent in the financial sector, how would this be achieved?
- notNow 11y agoFinancial markets can be manipulated provided you have the right keys. At this point in time, this is just a wild conspiracy theory and it's explained as retaliation for all the cyber attacks allegedly carried out by the Chinese govt or people affiliated with it.
- jerf 11y agoThere's plenty of reason to believe China was in a bubble long before these last couple of weeks, and if you don't like somebody and want to do them the maximum damage, you want to help inflate the bubble, not pop it. (Well, at least, if you have a rational view of how markets work.)
- omnipedal 11y agoOr retaliation for 2007-08 financial crisis. If I remember correctly, some Chinese quant gave the disastrous formula that caused it.
- speeder 11y agoI doubt it is synthesized, they managed to make 52% of all listed stocks enter automatic freezing at the same time...
- knowaveragejoe 11y agoMost likely, yes.
- vonmoltke 11y agoThe Journal's issue appears to be only with their front page. The rest of the site is working correctly.
- swasheck 11y agomad rush to publish crushed the front page? wsj.com/asia 504s as well.
- maxerickson 11y agoThe TV is stating that US government sources do not see a connection. Edit: Now the Secretary of Homeland Security is saying that there is no evidence of United or the NYSE being due to malice. Edit (about an hour later): Now the White House Press Secretary is reiterating the point about no indication of malicious actors.
- swasheck 11y agook. i'm not near a tv so i can't tell. thanks for the info.
- maxerickson 11y agoNow 2 hours later Tom Farley, President of the NYSE, is stating that it is an internal technical problem.
- ubernostrum 11y agoAs the saying goes, never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. In the case of United Airlines, be prepared to adjust your threshold of expected incompetence dramatically upward; since their merger with Continental multiple years ago, system-wide outages have been an every-couple-of-months thing.
- dingbat 11y agoHN was down earlier today too, or at least timing out on my end. never saw that before.
- swasheck 11y agothat happens to me quite a bit. nginx gateway errors are pretty common on HN in my experience
- maxerickson 11y agoCloudflare Chicago?
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- igravious 11y agoThat would be deadpan sarcasm there, without the <sarcasm>tags</sarcasm> Well maybe sarcasm is not _exactly_ the right sentiment but you get my drift.
- smackfu 11y agoHa, you have been lucky then.
- davesque 11y agoMaybe there's a stock market hacker flying around on planes...kinda like in the movie Hackers. Of course, in that movie they had no trouble cuffing him without grounding the plane. :)
- mangeletti 11y agoZeroHedge was down for a bit as well. I thought maybe it was an AWS (or other cloud provider) issue causing all the problems, until I read about the NYSE issue.
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- woodchuck64 11y agoNo need to apologize, my Bayesian inferences are going wild too.
- omnipedal 11y agothey're highly likely related, your intuition is telling you that for a reason.
- lectrick 11y agoI have a possible diagnosis- Technical debt has reached critical mass!