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		jimpudar on Dec 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Larry Roberts has died > people engaged in high-frequency trading These people pay to have their servers colocated with the trading servers they are communicating with. That would be like having a VoIP call with someone sitting next to you connected to the same switch.

cm2187 on Dec 31, 2018 [–]

Though I doubt the difference between a 50ms vs 2ms latency would be perceivable for a phone communication.

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