The Russian equivalent of “you can’t fire me—I quit!”

Sure, it looks like foul play—but it’s also a perfectly natural reaction to driving a Tesla.

You could restrict it to cases where the victim and defendant belong to significantly different demographics, then.

You could expand that to a general principle for all criminal cases: select one judge that matches the demographics of the defendant as closely as possible, one that matches the victim, and one that differs to an equal degree from both.

He was originally jailed for life but at an appeal doctors told the court the rapes arose of sexual frustration arising out of his marriage to an “ambitious and demanding” wife. The sentence was reduced and he spent only about two years in jail.

Why are rapists seemingly the only category of offender judges always manage to find sympathy for?

These days elders are printing screenshots of emails (and wondering why they’re cut off).

How much of their profits do the Waltons put back into the Bentonville economy?

What percentage of the money you spend in that Walmart will stay in Bentonville, versus money you spend in alternative local shops?

It was the power station near Arak that the IAEA had been monitoring.

They’d have to prove they created the god in question first, which would undermine every other claim they made for it.

Words aren’t isomorphic to their dictionary definitions—words had commonly-accepted meanings long before the existence of dictionaries. Dictionary definitions are just an attempt to come up with a heuristic for identifying things as instances of the term in question, but they’re never perfect—and the real-world usage is ontologically prior.

If the dictionary definition of sandwich fails to distinguish cakes from sandwiches, it’s just an imperfect definition (like all definitions are)—and we can leave it at that.

Our Father, which art…
…uh…
…which art foundation should we cut funding for next?

How does that compare to the growth in size of the overall code base?

Sure… but everything that’s been trending steadily upward over the last 50 years correlates with everything else that’s been doing the same.

To suggest causation, we’d need to find differences in rates of sunscreen use between locations, and see if that correlates with local differences in depression rates (after controlling for other confounding factors, etc).

Some (probably bacteria-like) form of life appeared almost as soon as conditions made it possible, so it’s conceivable that it arose multiple times in earth’s history. But eucaryotes (animals, plants, and fungi) took almost half the lifetime of the earth to appear, and have a lot of contingent features, so it’s overwhelmingly likely that all eucaryotes have a common ancestor.

If there’s public information about the methods they use to protect their privacy, that means those methods aren’t working.

I wonder which of that ancestor’s descendants would be its favorite child.

I’m not familiar with how the X1C does it, but the printers I’ve used can only tell if the temperature or resistance are outside of normal operating range—not if they differ from the exact values predicted at each point in the print.

The printers themselves should run a simulation like this while they’re printing, and continually check if heat sensors, motor resistance, etc. are deviating from the simulation. That might let them detect potential misprints earlier—or even correct issues mid-print.

If it helps to conceptualize, you can always replace subtraction and division with these equivalents without affecting the order:

a - b
= a + -b
= a + (-1*b)

and

a / b
= a * b^-1
= a * (1/b)

The standard order of operations is

1. Parentheses
2. Exponentiation
3. Multiplication and division
4. Addition and subtraction.

The operations on each row are equivalent, and are executed from left to right.