[ArbitraryLimits]

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html

> Years ago David Cheriton at Stanford taught me something that seemed very obvious at the time -- that if you have a network link with low bandwidth then it's an easy matter of putting several in parallel to make a combined link with higher bandwidth, but if you have a network link with bad latency then no amount of money can turn any number of them into a link with good latency.

You can tell it's dated from this little tidbit:

> The Cable TV industry is hyping "cable modems" right now

[finnh]

Theoretically, if your bandwidth is high enough, you can transfer the entire computational state of the distant resource to a local substrate, and then run the computation locally for a low-latency conversation.

So, if you are annoyed by the slow comms of our alpha centauri - earth channel, just transfer _your entire brain_ to a local avatar and I'll converse with that. Then run "git merge" to bring the remote history back to the master repo.