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by swjz 6y ago
Dropbox does a great job syncing a large number of small files -- I believe they compress the small files somehow before uploading to the cloud. And plenty of other optimizations that make me happy to pay Dropbox's premium. Otherwise,
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by swjz 7y ago
Slides are available at http://cs248.stanford.edu/winter20/
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by swjz 7y ago
> As for the Chief Executive's actions, it's not entirely clear to what extent she's responding to popular pressure, business groups in Hong Kong that want stability, or the central government. I would say, the Chief Execu
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by swjz 7y ago
Yeah, but obviously the Chief Executive simply takes Beijing's order for all such big movements.
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by swjz 7y ago
I agree with you that the government should release all protesters arrested. I actually don't care about the difference between "suspension without timetable for restarting" and "retraction" because even if the gove
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by swjz 7y ago
Note that the government statement says "There is no timetable for restarting the process." Even if the government had completely retracted the amendment, they could draft another amendment anytime anyway. That's why I think
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by swjz 7y ago
That's indeed true. But I see such suspension as a kind of signal that Beijing would like to compromise, which is nearly impossible. In practice, the "suspension" simply means that it's over because Beijing doesn't
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by swjz 7y ago
They've made it. The Chief Executive apologized and the government has suspended the fugitive law amendment. That's really a RARE concession in these years because the Chinese government typically doesn't compromise at all un