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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? by nazgulnarsil on Friday January 16, 2009 @11:30PM (#437752)
when you have a billion people you can afford to brute force capitalism.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? by SapphireSun on Saturday January 17, 2009 @01:35AM (#437817)
Superior performance can be had by applying the right algorithm. Also, applying the wrong algorithm may not get you where you want no matter how many cycles you put in. Brute force is always a terrible way of doing things unless there literally is no better way (I'm looking at you NP-Hard).
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