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		jbeda on Dec 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS: the good, the bad and the ugly 10 msec * c = ~3000 km or ~1860 miles. Of course light doesn't travel that fast through glass and there is latency at the hardware on either end. ;)

dredmorbius on Dec 19, 2012 [–]

Units foulup. I'd used 0.10ms, not 10ms.

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