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The New York Stock Exchange
The new york stock exchange opened up this room. It's the size of three football fields, filled with nothing. But most imposive of service, different specifins. Thes are owned by banks, hedge funds, brokers and a whole number of financie institutions. Every single rack within this facility has the same length of cabling to get to the network s at the end. Exactly the same lenactly the sun. Whether you're one foot away from the, you know, network hub, or a thousand feet away, you get the same length. I like to imagine they have a guy with a tape measurer that's the guy you bribe. That's the
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