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For anyone paying attention, the dearth of comments in this thread is a key indicator that the most commented threads on HN are all bike shedding threads. A topic like this suffers…

The really amazing part about the downvotes here, is that HN is unable to reconcile the realities of mass surveillance that tend to conflict with profit motives, and yet the collec…

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It is not derogatory. It is an abbreviation commonly used among finincial experts to denote a particular discipline of expertise. Jargon, parlance, slang.