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currysoup_t

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    Comment #16101007

    What leads you to believe performance follows a normal distribution? For a given especially slow request would you expect a corresponding especially fast request?

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    Comment #15790329

    Not since April of this year.

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    Comment #13275142

    Not so easy in practice. Representative democracy fundamentally limits the scope of available options. It's especially bad in the US; where the potential for damage is maximal.

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    Comment #12934341

    As usual, memory access is the expensive operation. If the virtual function is already in L1 cache a virtual function should be only a minor slowdown. If it's all the way off in ma…

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    Comment #12664438

    Most successful (Valley) startups don't start from nothing, far from it, they start from a vast network of other rich peoples money, usually VC, occasionally the state.

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    Comment #12543734

    Your point about referencing socialist revolutionaries is indeed part of what I'm going for, and is why I'm very reluctant to align myself with vanguardists, but we're not discussi…

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    Comment #12543243

    It's a bit of a straw man to present failed socialist-in-name-only states when critiquing socialism. If someone were to bring up the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea as an atte…

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    Comment #12542638

    I think you'll find textbook socialism are very different to what you think socialism and communism are. Do the workers in Venezuela own the means of production?

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    Comment #11689956

    Would you prefer it if the movement was called, 'Black Lives Don't Not Matter'?

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    Comment #11121313

    As someone currently preparing to interview with Google I'd take 4 hours implementing real code over a (recommended) 2 weeks of basic algorithms, data structures, math, etc. revisi…