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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"the views of the citizens of Paris" ... I was so dumbfounded by the ludicrousness of this comment that I assumed that it was a parody account ... alas, no. ->
For interest, there's a long history of people from specific areas caring so much about a particular issue that they create a treaty or convention - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t… - without the good people of Bretton Woods then the modern financial system would never have existed ...
... and we'd still be fighting world war I if it wasn't for the good folk of Versailles getting involved and demanding a treaty.
Hats off to those in Geneva for caring so much about the treatment of prisoners or those in Montreal for getting hot under the collar over Ozone depletion.

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Me : Postcode lottery? I suspect it depends upon where you live in UK. My area is poor.
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It's not just how they lockdown entire areas, the extensive use of test (origin), test (transit), test (destination) and isolate but ... look closely, wearing a mask whilst driving ... this should be the norm - in public, in the car, when you open the door of your home etc ->
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Whilst this is wonderful - and it is - please remember that to rebalance the US fortunes against (for example) China will take 20-30 years. Celebrate the changes but don't set impossible expectations ... much will need a longer path. What matters is a better path is set ->
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X : How do you think the US should play the game with China?
Me : With no action.
X : Eh?
Me : To play the game, you need to first understand yourself and then the "opponent" and then the landscape. If you lack all three then do nothing and first observe ... with frank honesty.
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X : Have you gone fibre yet?
Me : broadband?
X : Yes
Me : I channel bond across two 4G lines. Get a reasonable speed. I have a "backup" Superfast Fibre to the Cabinet line by @BTGroup but that's a joke. A really good day I might get 7Mbps down / 2Mbps up but most days ...
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Me : Yep. The test below - I have two 4G lines and the BT one in the middle is fibre to the cabinet (it varies a lot, on a really good day you might get 10Mb/s) ... so I duplicate traffic across the 4G lines to a server in London. End up with a reasonable speed.
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"Fifty-nine percent of those polled said they believed China will become more powerful than the U.S. within 10 years" - politico.eu/article/1-in-3… ... I hate to break it to you but it already is in many areas.
When I published this work (originally from 2015) - - I did tend to get a lot of pushback from US folk when presenting it.

Six years later, less so. Image
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We will ultimately face a more advanced, more wealthy and more equal society ...
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I think I'm going to need a third screen.
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Me : First online conference that I took part in was around 2007. I know people are being forced into this world (due to the isolation economy) and yes, I find the tool useful ... hell, when it comes to tools, I even have Vim on my desktop but ...
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