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diggerNick6771··on Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
And for what? To protect their money. It's their responsibility to stop fraud and cover losses. Not mine. I'm paying them my monthly service fee to safely store my money. People don't seem to understand this. If I want to saddle all the risk myself I'll use cash in my mattress.
diggerNick6771··on OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Designs [video]
It's not really the fibre that slows down the signal as much as the opto-electrical repeaters that relay the signal many times as it travels vast distances.

Light can only go a few km before it needs to be boosted