Timeline for How can a colony of teleporters make the most money while keeping their teleportation a secret?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 11, 2018 at 18:40 | comment | added | user15741 | NPSF3000 - AWS snowball takes a week and consists of mailing a hard drive to Amazon. That's a similar service, only 100x slower, and it can only move data into AWS instead of between any two points a customer wants. Moving a 10 TB HDD from from LA to NY in an hour is not high latency. It's 23 Gbps. Moving a box of drives with 500 TB is over 1100 Gbps. | |
| May 11, 2018 at 10:23 | comment | added | Stian | Improvement to answer: Teleport stock exchange information! If you have a robot buyer at each SE you can make quadrillions over a few weeks just being ahead of the information. Nanoseconds are important in the banking business, they purchase server warehouses for a FORTUNE - as close as possible to the stock exchange for this reason. Electrons have to travel more than a block away? sorry, man you lose out. With a teleporter you can transmit market information from new york from/to shanghai faster and make a fortune on currency exchange alone. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 18:33 | comment | added | NPSF3000 | The problem here is that you have high latency and high cost. Usually, people want low latency high cost (e.g. real-time replication/backup) or low-cost high latency upload overnight, snail mail). Where are you going to find this 13PB petabyte a day worth of high latency, high-value data to transport, keeping in mind that you'll have a very hard time getting certified given the secrecy requirements. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 18:33 | comment | added | NPSF3000 | AWS's point to point service (as long as one point is aws) is called snowball and costs \$250 for 80TB or \$3.125/TB. There is also the Snowmobile, but don't know costs for that. At \$3.125/TB you'll need to transfer around 13PB every working day. | |
| May 9, 2018 at 13:45 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | Why would anybody rely on armour, rather than encryption, for transport of sensitive data? If anything, they'd be transporting one-time pads for the actual encrypted data transfer, but for one-time pads it doesn't matter how slow you are. | |
| May 7, 2018 at 19:18 | history | edited | user15741 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added economics of teleportation
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| May 7, 2018 at 15:23 | comment | added | LastStar007 | +1 For the answer being feasible. The shipping one IMO is a low-hanging fruit, but with the teleport exhaustion mechanic you can't transport all that much raw material that quickly. You need to move something with very high value-to-mass ratio (gee, that sounds familiar) and you've done that. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 21:51 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | AWS is closer to "the most expensive you will find". For example, Hetzner (popular German hoster) costs 1 EUR/TB. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 19:17 | comment | added | user15741 | There's a balance between impressive results and secrecy. Faster is more valuable, but more astonishing. Black suits, strict protocols, and armored car creates an air of professionalism to awe and dazzle, while the back of the armored car is just a windowless room to use to blink. Slowing down the transfer allows more economy of scale, letting the orders pile up a bit before the long transports, and may look more realistic. | |
| May 4, 2018 at 17:39 | comment | added | scohe001 | +1 for the math on the prices, incorporating the teleportation mechanics and comparing to a real world competitor! My only problem is the secrecy--with that many moving parts, and digital data on top of it all, I feel like discovery is a stronger possibility here than in other answers. That being said though, this is a strong answer! And the extra revenue may make the risk worth it :) | |
| May 4, 2018 at 16:38 | history | answered | user15741 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |