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>Because stock exchanges don't run themselves.

Nor does Google, yet somehow they are able to handle running 24/7.




I think NYSE has higher uptime and tighter latency requirements.

Google doesn’t get in as much trouble if there’s some downtime, especially for consumer facing products




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