[icebraining]

>on the client side, I don't think you can really feel the latency. is measurable, of course, but i don't think you can feel it.

That doesn't seem to be the general opinion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2565694

[Tharkun]

And high(er) latency on HN would be a problem because ... ? It's such a highly interactive website? There are billions of high quality images to be loaded? Hundreds of ajax calls going back and forth every second?

Right.