Nature uses life-friendly chemistry because (a) life evolved in the geologically given chemistry, so life certainly can cope with that, and (b) the life-produced chemistry is life, and life that kills itself won't survive long.
Note that life does explicitly not always produce chemical substances which is non-toxic for other life forms than itself; if you don't believe it, try to eat deadly nightshade.
For God, a thousand years are like a day. But a year has 365 days (ignoring leap days for simplicity), so 5000 years have about 9 million days. With every day counting as 1000 years, we arrive at an age of the world of about 9 billion years. This is clearly longer than 165 million years, so everything is fine.
I have bitcoins, and I don't sell drugs. Cmon this guy only had 11 coins! If he was selling drugs for bitcoins, that makes him a really bad drug dealer.
Or he did hide his actual wallet (the one where the big money is stored) really well.
OH, BTW, I just tried to print an array with Python, and it *did* output brackets and commas. So the novice was right and the expert wrong in that regard.
In this last 30 seconds or so of the novice video above, you can see her back-and-forth comparison of the x and y lists. If you look carefully, however, the red dot (her gaze point) is often undershooting the numbers on both lists. Why is this? While it could be a miscalibration of the eye-tracker, the participant may also have been using her parafoveal (the region outside the fovea) to read the numbers. This and the fact that foveation and visual attention are not necessarily always the same (i.e., looking at something doesn't always mean you're thinking about it) encourages us to be cautious when interpreting eye-tracking data.
I suddenly realized that while reading those lines I indeed was focusing below those lines. I have no idea if this was an unconscious reaction on reading this, or if I do that always (unfortunately my very awareness of this will affect any result, so I can't test this for myself).
This gives "reading between the lines" a whole new meaning;-)
I'm speaking about the competition between the companies who advertise (or let advertise) their products. That is, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, McDonald's etc.
Well, my graphics card has digital out, and my monitor has digital in, but I still run it with VGA. Why? Because the format of the digital out (DVI) doesn't fit with the format of the digital in (HDMI). Yes, I guess I could pay a premium for an adapter, but hey, why do so if the VGA connection works?
Not only is Obama fully responsible for the current NSA actions and keeping them secret, he lied during his campaign when he promised to end such abuses.
He only lied if he at that time did not have the intentions to end them, or if at that time he believed he could not actually do it. You better present evidence for that if you want to maintain the claim that he was lying back then.
Of course that doesn't relieve him from any responsibility for his actions (and inactions) as president.
Congress can't pull funding because then the masses will believe the congressmen don't take fighting terrorists seriously enough (and if they don't by themselves, certain media will certainly tell them that). Since the congressmen want to be voted in again, they will keep the NSA funding.
BTW, who knows what the NSA knows about the congressmen which in case the congress cuts funding they might "leak" to the public (of course in a way not to be followed back to them; just make sure someone working for the other party gets to know it, the rest will be automatic). Indeed, they don't even really have to have such knowledge, it is enough if the congressmen suspect they might have it and use it against them.
Get your news from as many different (and differently biased) sources as possible, and then use your brain to find out the likely truth in those reports.
Well, at some time in the future they'll put you into psychiatry for not showing such reactions from time to time, because you're clearly not normal...
Actually, how much you pay for the transit depends on how much from the companies who do the advertising. I see quite some advertising for Microsoft. I know that I paid not a single cent for that, because the last time I bought a Microsoft product is more than a decade ago.
Well, thinking about it: I still pay for it through tax money spent on Microsoft products used in the government.
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I wish there was a 'like' button here.
There is. It is called "moderation", specifically moderating up.
In China.
Nature uses life-friendly chemistry because (a) life evolved in the geologically given chemistry, so life certainly can cope with that, and (b) the life-produced chemistry is life, and life that kills itself won't survive long.
Note that life does explicitly not always produce chemical substances which is non-toxic for other life forms than itself; if you don't believe it, try to eat deadly nightshade.
The devil is in the details, therefore God does not support the details, because that would mean to support the devil.
For God, a thousand years are like a day. But a year has 365 days (ignoring leap days for simplicity), so 5000 years have about 9 million days. With every day counting as 1000 years, we arrive at an age of the world of about 9 billion years. This is clearly longer than 165 million years, so everything is fine.
But isn't that key password protected?
I have bitcoins, and I don't sell drugs. Cmon this guy only had 11 coins! If he was selling drugs for bitcoins, that makes him a really bad drug dealer.
Or he did hide his actual wallet (the one where the big money is stored) really well.
It could output a text which, when read, causes harm to you. Like the funniest joke of the world.
Interestingly the Perl interpreter seems to solve it quite well. Maybe I should try if it can also solve the halting problem? ;-)
You mean unlike every other programming language with its special characters?
How many special characters does COBOL have?
One data point in a multidimensional space does not a dataset make.
Of course it does. It doesn't make a very useful dataset, and certainly not a statistically significant one, but it is a dataset nonetheless.
OH, BTW, I just tried to print an array with Python, and it *did* output brackets and commas. So the novice was right and the expert wrong in that regard.
How would a 9 end up in the last line if the second line has no 9 in it?
As far as I can see, the third line should only have an 8, nothing else.
When reading the lines
In this last 30 seconds or so of the novice video above, you can see her back-and-forth comparison of the x and y lists. If you look carefully, however, the red dot (her gaze point) is often undershooting the numbers on both lists. Why is this? While it could be a miscalibration of the eye-tracker, the participant may also have been using her parafoveal (the region outside the fovea) to read the numbers. This and the fact that foveation and visual attention are not necessarily always the same (i.e., looking at something doesn't always mean you're thinking about it) encourages us to be cautious when interpreting eye-tracking data.
I suddenly realized that while reading those lines I indeed was focusing below those lines. I have no idea if this was an unconscious reaction on reading this, or if I do that always (unfortunately my very awareness of this will affect any result, so I can't test this for myself).
This gives "reading between the lines" a whole new meaning ;-)
I'm speaking about the competition between the companies who advertise (or let advertise) their products. That is, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, McDonald's etc.
If American bookstores are really that bad, they deserve to die.
Are you sure he didn't mean "koans"?
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Did its colour change?
Well, my graphics card has digital out, and my monitor has digital in, but I still run it with VGA. Why? Because the format of the digital out (DVI) doesn't fit with the format of the digital in (HDMI). Yes, I guess I could pay a premium for an adapter, but hey, why do so if the VGA connection works?
He only lied if he at that time did not have the intentions to end them, or if at that time he believed he could not actually do it. You better present evidence for that if you want to maintain the claim that he was lying back then.
Of course that doesn't relieve him from any responsibility for his actions (and inactions) as president.
Congress can't pull funding because then the masses will believe the congressmen don't take fighting terrorists seriously enough (and if they don't by themselves, certain media will certainly tell them that). Since the congressmen want to be voted in again, they will keep the NSA funding.
BTW, who knows what the NSA knows about the congressmen which in case the congress cuts funding they might "leak" to the public (of course in a way not to be followed back to them; just make sure someone working for the other party gets to know it, the rest will be automatic). Indeed, they don't even really have to have such knowledge, it is enough if the congressmen suspect they might have it and use it against them.
Get your news from as many different (and differently biased) sources as possible, and then use your brain to find out the likely truth in those reports.
Well, at some time in the future they'll put you into psychiatry for not showing such reactions from time to time, because you're clearly not normal ...
Actually, how much you pay for the transit depends on how much from the companies who do the advertising. I see quite some advertising for Microsoft. I know that I paid not a single cent for that, because the last time I bought a Microsoft product is more than a decade ago.
Well, thinking about it: I still pay for it through tax money spent on Microsoft products used in the government.