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Re:OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Desi... by joejoint on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:35PM (#18107930)
Speed of light is a universal physical constant. What you referring is that the space the light has to travel in the optic cable is way bigger then what it would be with straight line of sight between MW towers.
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Re:OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Desi... by detaro on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:54PM (#18108029)
The constant referred to as "speed of light" is speed of light in vacuum. Light slows down different amounts in different media.
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Re:OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Desi... by mhh__ on Sunday September 30, 2018 @04:12PM (#18108133)
Semantics, at best...
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