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Fun story - never heard it before.

BTW, I think information travels over "normal" networking gear (e.g. fiber optics) at about 70% of the speed of light (which is why high-frequency trading tends to move to over-the-air microwave networking to shave a few nanoseconds - see [1]). But I guess the story still works, at the resolution it is told.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading




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