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doc/go_mem.html: don't be clever

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Add a short introductory section saying what most Go
programmers really need to know, which is that you
shouldn't have to read this document to understand
the behavior of your program.

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@ -21,6 +21,29 @@ reads of a variable in one goroutine can be guaranteed to
observe values produced by writes to the same variable in a different goroutine.
</p>
<h2>Advice</h2>
<p>
Programs that modify data being simultaneously accessed by multiple goroutines
must serialize such access.
</p>
<p>
To serialize access, protect the data with channel operations or other synchronization primitives
such as those in the <a href="/pkg/sync/"><code>sync</code></a>
and <a href="/pkg/sync/atomic/"><code>sync/atomic</code></a> packages.
</p>
<p>
If you must read the rest of this document to understand the behavior of your program,
you are being too clever.
</p>
<p>
Don't be clever.
</p>
<h2>Happens Before</h2>
<p>