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>Here's a table of latencies from London to other world cities with more than 5 million people, comparing against the theoretical maximum speed, the speed of light:

This is a flawed comparison because it looks like he's comparing ping latency (round trip time) with speed of light (one trip), so the "Slowdown factor" columns is off by a factor of two.




The table updated with that fix.

https://jsfiddle.net/32e0qkxs/


Author here, you are absolutely right and I will correct that!




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