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The response needn't be serialized. That is to say, multiple actions may be popped off the priority queue at once, without waiting for the others to finish.
by partialrecall 7y ago
The response needn't be serialized. That is to say, multiple actions may be popped off the priority queue at once, without waiting for the others to finish.
See also: the reason we are talking about this at all when there are still hungry children in the world.
- seph-reed 7y agoHungry people are a growing and incredibly complex problem. Punishing even a single one of Epstein's clients seems much more manageable. And if we're going for impact-to-effort ratio queuing, this is likely a bit more of a gimme than world hunger.
- partialrecall 7y agoThe point is that society can address more than one problem (or more than one aspect of a problem) at once. The reasoning I responded to seemed to be following the tired cliche of dismissing any problem as not worthy of attention because children are still starving.
- seph-reed 7y ago> The point is that society can address more than one problem Can it? It often seems like nothing really ever get addressed fully, while there is a barrage of half baked debates.