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Visualizing these numbers is a good idea, but this is a terrible execution.

- The line segments go in different directions, making it unnecessarily difficult to visually determine relative lengths

- The packet send from CA to the Netherlands and back to CA is split over many lines, making it even more difficult

- The data is split across multiple maps, making it nearly impossible to get a good sense of, say, just how much longer the packet roundtrip takes than a memory reference.

- It's nearly impossible to see the line segment for main memory reference

- Having the lines overlaid on a map is more distracting than anything else

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