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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by tomp on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:40AM (#20591032)
By “taking advantage of lags in information flow” you’re actually disseminating information and reducing the lag.
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Re:Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off... by MagnumOpus on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:00AM (#20591116)
The social value or reducing the price dissemination lag from a microsecond to 110 ns is zero. Hence why the billions of resources going into it are a greater waste than even bitcoin.
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