...isn't Earth what happens when a gazillion "asteroids and comets" bump into each other?
While everything on Earth came from comets (and asteroids, which are basically just sun-dried comets), this isn't about Earth. It is about one minor detail on Earth called Life.
That said: Another day, another proposed abiogenesis mechanism. I am looking forward to the day one of these gets promoted to a model.
The real thought experiment is rather more philosophical than Betteridge's law allows. It goes like this:
If Bennett Haselton writes a time and motion study on ice sales at Burning Man and nobody gives a rats arse, did he actually get laid?
What article?
Don't you read the newspaper?
There are two kinds of solar systems: "passive" systems collect the sunlight that hits your home, and "active" systems collect the sunlight that hits your neighbors' homes, too.
-- Dave Barry, "Postpetroleum Guzzler"
next up, some guy injects it into his dick, then announces his dick will pay you.
On that topic: Bitcoin isn't the only thing this guy has injected into his hands.
Well, that depends on:
(a) your definition of literally: (in a literal sense vs. virtually), and
(b) your definition of definition: (explanation vs. perfect example).
The irony of this situation is left as an exercise for the reader.
Read The Love-Hate World of the Narcissist. A snippet:
The discard is generally cruel and is based upon the narcissist's projection of his own inner loathing.
Oh and by the way Alex. Laughing at your own jokes? Fantasies of success.
Other than that pointer-intensive 64-bit programs run more slowly than pointer-intensive 32-bit programs because of all the cache misses.
Donald Knuth was wrong. The cache hit problem is of minor significance. Most programs use 10% or less of memory for pointers and 90% or more for data. Most (but not all) of the others have an infrastructure problem. Most often, it is poor choice of language.
same reason there won't be a windows 13
You sure? There could be an ace buddy film starring Tom Hanks as Paul Allen, Macaulay Culkin as Bill Gates and Mike Myers as Fat Bastard.
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