[throwaway1460]

  > not like any of these huge companies are going to pick up and leave and
  > build their giant new campus out in the middle of the desert or something.

Or something.

Typically a programmer's daily work product can be moved half way around the world in a fraction of a second, for a fraction of a cent.

Perhaps there should be an addition to Latency numbers every programmer should know:

  Programmer drives to work .... 3,000,000,000,000 ns