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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 t…

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> 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 centra…

Yeah, but obviously the Chief Executive simply takes Beijing's order for all such big movements.

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 "r…

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 …

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…

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 gove…