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forget 27 years, give me 1 minute and I'll be a rich man( I'll do sport betting :D )

• stellar678 15y ago
  To circle around a bit back to a hacker news favorite topic - this is exactly why high-frequency traders put their equipment in data centers as close to the action as possible. They're seeing the and trading on the future if your frame of reference is some data center in California.
  • Wilduck 15y ago
    Until just now, I always thought this was a silly practice. My line of reasoning was "What difference does a 30ms ping make?" I guess I hadn't thought about it too much though. Now, after reading a comment elsewhere in this thread, which talks about how a cpu can execute six instructions in the time it takes the light from my monitor to reach my eyes, the data center thing seems a lot more reasonable.