I don't know Eloston well enough to comment on the first half of that statement but the second half is certainly not true for the core repo!
Eventually had to give up: "sorry no I'm living in China, too complicated", which is sad because some of the people seemed really nice and smart.
From the public information, you can only guess based on the names:
One example: https://web.archive.org/web/20200920040602/https://mentors.d...
or https://space.bilibili.com/439205819 (seems also smart and nice).
I'm sure there are many counter-examples as well.
It's not good or bad, just very logical that people who don't want Google are the ones who get a HTTP timeout or a lockup every time they try to send a request to Google.
Eventually had to give up: "sorry no I'm living in China, too complicated", which is sad because some of the people seemed really nice and smart.
From the public information, you can only guess based on the names:
One example: https://web.archive.org/web/20200920040602/https://mentors.d...
or https://space.bilibili.com/439205819 (seems also smart and nice).
I'm sure there are many counter-examples as well.
It's not good or bad, just very logical that people who don't want Google are the ones who get a HTTP timeout or a lockup every time they try to send a request to Google.