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mcescher

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    Comment #262138

    Joel On Starbucks

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    Comment #257072

    > Meanwhile, East Africans routinely monopolize gold medals in the long distance events ( 10,000 meters, marathons). Can you think of any non-genetic explanation for this? Elevatio…

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    Comment #255712

    Dang it, I had this same idea a while back, except with pre-loading the pages so you can mouseover titles on the left and the story instantly pops up on the right. This would help …

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    Comment #251629

    > When the founding fathers penned the bill of rights, speech meant speech. Not intrusive speech, and not published, internationally accessible works. First Amendment: "Congress sh…

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    Comment #249241

    > You have to synchronize accesses to it in some way. Pretty simple. > it is probably faster to send them through pipe, because the copying overhead is negligible compared to synch…

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    Comment #249050

    > Setting up the TLB and handling the page faults, Should be done once, at the beginning, and the segment re-used. > then doing the interprocess synchronization There is IPC anyway…

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    Comment #249037

    Your arguments are orthogonal to speed. > Don't diss the pipe I guess you've been smoking. You don't make any sense when it comes to "buffers" (writing to shared memory IS writing …

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    Comment #248244

    > Unix domain sockets are fast. really fast. as in, beating shared memory sometimes fast. Not sure where you got this but it's wrong.

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    Comment #244661

    > Miscarriages, even a century ago, claimed so many women s/Miscarriages/Childbirth That's why wide hips are important.

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    Comment #244659

    > b) Dominant, decisive, intelligent, women are likely to share similar evolutionary advantages to men. Unfortunately women like that are incompatible with many human cultures. E.g…

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    Comment #244152

    You're in luck. Tomorrow, there won't be a line at all.

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    Comment #230682

    Bill Gates did this stuff dealing with IBM et al. If you CAN do X, and the only thing stopping you from getting the deal is the other side's perception of you, then influencing the…