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When donating money to a (say, charitable) cause, it is possible to use the contemplated donation as a bargaining chip to induce other parties interested in the charity to donate ...
ion can improve performance without significantly breaking layered abstractions; explicit bursts are preferable to steady, constant bitrate traffic. Furthermore, the vagaries and c...