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MichaelZuo
on Sept 15, 2023
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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
A dedicated satellite link cross pacific is not that much money. Then again maybe the CFO didn't know so he took the easiest known option.
bastawhiz
on Sept 15, 2023
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I've always been fond of container ships loaded up with entangled qbits. Much lower latency!
MichaelZuo
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If you don't quite believe it, it's almost certainly less per annum then 2 months of a typical mid-level SRE's loaded cost, even in 2016. Bandwidth would have been not great, way under a gigabit, but it wouldn't matter in this case.
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