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On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir@cohens.org.il wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 01:27:00AM +0000, Alexander Ross wrote:
off topic:
I’m finding this insightful as to why luke was treated the way he was by a number of allwinner :( people:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/11/the_u_s_should...
bit in particular i just read:
I mostly liked the bits in the end:
"
When President Obama paraphrases the U.S. cybersecurity strategy at a town hall meeting in China as “the more freely information flows, the stronger societies become,” China thinks, “You’re a guest and that’s just rude.”
When the U.S. says, “We will work with partners in industry, academia, and NGOs to harness the power of connection technologies and apply them to our diplomatic goals,” Russia thinks, “We were so right to kick out those foreign NGOs.”
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/11/26/0813222/schools-funded-by-gates-and... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/06/18/1919211/bill-gates-donation-of-thous...
professor yunus explains it best, that people need to feel empowered to uplift *themselves*.
I love the smell of post-truth in the morning.
:)
Also, I guess you have a really good internet connection in Shenzen.
just one that can tolerate openvpn. the connection speed is around the 30-50k/sec mark, which is just enough for browsers to not trigger SSL session establishment timeouts or browser page timeouts on a regular basis. in shenzhen where it was around the 10-15k/sec mark, that was where it was completely intolerable.
l.