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".. 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"
Somewhere, a hedge fund is quietly investing in neutrino comms research.
Neutrinos, phooey. Tachyons are the future, I tell you!
This story is written creatively, yet succinctly. Fantastic.
>Remme had just deposited $12,500 in gold slugs to his account, the profits of selling cattle to the beefsteak-hungry miners slaving in the camps along the Mother Lode. How many of those Forty-Niners had gleaned that much gold for two months' labor?

Inflation adjusted that's more than $150k per month. And people thing we have a good time now ...