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I got a blank page when I opened the web site. So as usual I looked at HN comments to see what it was about. Here's an idea: add some HN logic to automatically move a comment that begins with "TL;DR" to the top of the thread.
That will just be abused
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Please don't give the HFT's ideas, they'll probably do it and cause a half dozen tsunamis in the process.
If you don't like HFTs, this is an idea you'd probably like to give them. Nobody has ever drilled through the Mohorovicic. It is unclear whether or not it is possible to do so. The most-likely outcome is a few happy geologists/geophysicists and a number of very-sad HFT underwriters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_disconti...
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If you don't like HFTs, this is an idea you'd probably like to give them. Nobody has ever drilled through the Mohorovicic. It is unclear whether or not it is possible to do so. The most-likely outcome is a few happy geologists/geophysicists and a number of very-sad HFT underwriters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_disconti...
It says it's 10 to 20 km below the ocean floor. Are we as humans been digging in the ocean floor that deep, or even at all? That sounds like sci-fi to me, I'd love to learn more if that's actually feasible.
US, sea, 183 m below the sea floor in 3,600 m of water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mohole
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Because HFT helps the rich AF get richer but Starlink benefits normal people?
Satellite internet already exists; StarLink's defining feature is lower latency both by being in a lower orbit and inter-satellite links. It does benefit consumers by introducing another satellite internet competitor, but how many "normal" people want to rely on satellite internet or, if they do, care about a few extra 100s of ms of latency? (Inter)-National wireless companies have a tendency to consolidate and lobby…
Also multiplayer gaming is rather popular, and that's just not possible with that much latency.
VOIP is a pretty terrible experience with that much latency too.
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You gotta bore for that sweet latency win. A chord tunnel between San Francisco and Hong Kong would save 1300 miles (20% improvement right there), and if you drill it straight enough, you won't even need a cable.
More feasible would be transmitting neutrinos or some other signal that would not be blocked by the Earth.
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If you don't like HFTs, this is an idea you'd probably like to give them. Nobody has ever drilled through the Mohorovicic. It is unclear whether or not it is possible to do so. The most-likely outcome is a few happy geologists/geophysicists and a number of very-sad HFT underwriters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87_disconti...
It says it's 10 to 20 km below the ocean floor. Are we as humans been digging in the ocean floor that deep, or even at all? That sounds like sci-fi to me, I'd love to learn more if that's actually feasible.
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You gotta bore for that sweet latency win. A chord tunnel between San Francisco and Hong Kong would save 1300 miles (20% improvement right there), and if you drill it straight enough, you won't even need a cable.
Please don't give the HFT's ideas, they'll probably do it and cause a half dozen tsunamis in the process.
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You gotta bore for that sweet latency win. A chord tunnel between San Francisco and Hong Kong would save 1300 miles (20% improvement right there), and if you drill it straight enough, you won't even need a cable.
Please don't give the HFT's ideas, they'll probably do it and cause a half dozen tsunamis in the process.
I long for the days when the US loved building infrastructure.