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I think this is great! As a Brazilian developer I would love to be able to use european datacenters, today the latency makes it almost impossible, they're way cheaper than Brazilian ones and travel to EU is easier than to the US because of the visa.

This isn't the solution to privacy but solves a lot of other problems.

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Yeah, doing a bit of spot-testing it looks like even though São Paulo is only about 15% further from Copenhagen than Los Angeles is (10500 km vs. 9000 km), the latency from here is 40-100% worse (300-400ms to São Paulo, vs. 200-220ms to LA). Considerably less consistent, too, with spikes up to 500-600ms to some sites. Would be nice to get a more direct connection to South America, with latencies coming more in line with its actual distance.

Exactly. Claiming it's a move against the NSA might help sell it, but the dividends are going to be faster communication with one of the biggest economies.

And hopefully traffic in Brazil will also become cheaper :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1tVzEs9zoM :)

Sorry, I don't speak Portuguese. Are you implying you do not understand the relation between internet connectivity and the price of renting a server?

I understand. I just do not believe that could happen. Especially in a country that the internet provider just need to delivery 10% of the internet speed contracted.

The guy in the video is saying "mais ou menos", that means "more or less"

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