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		ggm on May 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Louis Remme’s horse race against a steamship for a... ".. and that kids, is why the old microwave towers which turn out to have a 100ms advantage in RTT over your fibre optic link are still being used by canny traders to get in ahead of the other guy, on their market knowledge"

weswilson on May 22, 2023 | [–]

Reminds me of the Sniper in Mahwaw (https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/) posts about HFT and microwave towers.

I think this is the first in the series: https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba...

The_SamminAter on May 22, 2023 | | [–]

This lead me down a wormhole. Thanks for the interesting links!

rsynnott on May 22, 2023 | [–]

Somewhere, a hedge fund is quietly investing in neutrino comms research.

gumby on May 22, 2023 | [–]

Neutrinos, phooey. Tachyons are the future, I tell you!

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