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by ooterness 1026 days ago
On that note, Ryan North's book "How to Take Over the World" has a whole chapter about this. He proposes building a tunnel from New York to Chicago, to get the best possible straight-line distance between the two cities, thereby minimizing latency. Leasing this line for HFT is the funding source for most of the later supervillain schemes.