Since the data structure has a static size, that is N is constant (12 months, 365 days) , technically any operation on it is O(1).

None of the ISPs compete directly in most places, that’s the beauty of it. They realized long time ago it’s more profitable if they divide the US into little monopoly regions.

Why are you so upset about them restoring the original name? When was the last time US military defended the US soil vs. launching an attack?

So far.

Basically the US government decided to de-segregate schools in order to counter the “malign influence” of Soviet “lies” that the US is an apartheid state, but soon realized that the people were so racist that the black schoolchildren needed federal agents as personal bodyguards to prevent lynchings.

I guess the evil Chinese authoritarian school teachers even infiltrated the IMF and told them Taiwan is a province of China.

Free market? As in, competition between different enterprises? And what do you think happens when one company “wins” that competition? It will use that power to establish a monopoly (or a cartel with a couple buddy companies). Both “free market” and “private monopoly” are capitalist fenomena, just at different stages of development of industry.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49613-d-day-anniversary-britons-disagree-with-other-countries-on-who-did-the-most-to-defeat-the-nazis