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Comment Re:Concurrency is still badly understood (Score 1) 237

Agreed on main points. A few remarks:

- In C's pthreads library, you *can* tell the 'system' 'I'm leaving this object to wait' of sorts (pthread_condition_wait requires you to pass a mutex).

- Overall, there are many, *many* programs out there that, justifiably, do not use threads at all. To require these programs to incur the overhead associated with threading even though they don't use it, seems a bit much.

Comment Re:What "let"? (Score 1) 134

They will also be held accountable, at least internally, if, when it becomes known, and subsequently there is damage to the interests of the US. So in spite of your rhetoric, it's always a gamble. And I think in this particular case, we have reason to believe the man: the damage would have been potentially too great. And there is, in this particular case, seemingly no real reason to lie.

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