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Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?

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303 points zdw | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 16:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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lesser-shadow ◴[08 Jul 25 14:27 UTC] No.44500318[source]▶
Don't get it
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1. voidUpdate ◴[08 Jul 25 14:34 UTC] No.44500375[source]▶
Data can only go about 500 miles in 3ms, and in the original story, that's how long the system took to time out, and would fail to send the email