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by 706f6f70 2784 days ago
Other important factors:

* Diverse enough to extrapolate findings specific to other communities (e.g. the huge Chinese and South Indian population in urban Canada are still culturally very similar to China and India, despite being in Canada).

* Toothless privacy legislation and enforcement.

* A historic lack of global attention means they will bend over backwards to attract "prestige" projects (see: Sidewalk Labs)