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I haven't received a formal education in CS, and I know about CAP and what it means.

Reading the Aphyr "Jepsen" series is what helped me learn it... when I was still in high school. And this was necessary because I was curious about which database I needed to use for a particular side project I was writing.

It's totally possible to just Google "bubble sort complexity" or "CAP" and learn about it.

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Just to assure that my point was well understood.

Yes, you can today easily find quite a lot of information and learn about it, but this was not the situation the original poster lamented about.

The claim was that when faced with such question, one can just google it and read the answer. Problem solved. Because these are just some random facts like who is the president of France.

My point was that in my opinion these questions actually probe the general understanding about the CS field.