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The theory that Japan wouldn't have been defeated without the Bomb is contended, at best.

That means you are look at supply lines 3000 miles long, after you have contended with the most powerful navy in the world.

CPUs aren't any good at contended access to memory cells, but they still allow it and it works.

Sure, there are situations where it's not (highly contended counter, say), but that's certainly a small minority of situations.

My friend contended that existing life would consume the raw ingredients before they could self assemble.

On modern X86, you can do 5-20k floating point operations during one contended atomic sync op.

Of course it's not just writes, there are also reads to be contended with.

I've long contended, in discussion about the media, that it's absolutely impossible to have a completely neutral presentation.

This is not a contended fact and is very open to search and research.

Land in contended areas edges in on a zero sum game.

Single-threaded communication is much faster than potentially contended parallel communication.

Further, lock free structures are one of the most straight forward paths to large non-contended concurrent in memory data sets becoming the norm rather than the exception.

The music industry contended that instead "harm" should be measured by assuming that every copy taken is a sale lost.

And if you remove the mutex, you're turning "the contended path" into "the path that blows up your program".

It was hardware designs that were stolen, as the first line of the article states: >> "The Obama administration on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Chinese professor and the indictment of five other Chinese citizens in what it contended was a decade-long scheme to steal microelectronics designs from Silicon Valley companies."

Contended local disk access under heavy random read/write workloads takes essentially forever.