Comment Re:Personal Anecdote (Score 1) 83
It's another story for Amazon S3...
Do you really think that the would-be mayor should be allowed to say what he thinks about your business practices and equipment, but you and your fellow landscapers in town shouldn't be allowed to run an ad saying, "Don't elect Mr. Smith, because all of your local landscaping companies will end up out of business.
Yes, that's EXACTLY what I want. If you are so concerned about your business then you should use your PERSONAL funds to support the other candidate.
How do we know that those repetitions are not needed to accelerate (by parallel processing) some important process which, with a single expression, would otherwise be too slow to survive?
You absolutely do NOT want them to be expressed. In fact, your genome tries really hard to suppress them - all they do is replicating themselves. That's the reason so much of your genome consists of them.
Dependency on statistical properties is doubtful - organisms have more than 100x natural variance in genome sizes within fairly closely related species (just look at plants) without much outward difference. Even in animals, some species have a small and compact genomes (pufferfish) without much junk.
Yes, as long as they aren't causing a direct disturbance in the store or harassing other customers, I would.
It's PERFECTLY FINE to cause a disturbance. For example, to force you to walk through a human corridor, while everyone is chanting that you're a slut. Justice Scalia said so.
I would suggest to simply forget the myth that "working out" makes you lose weight.
Actually, it can work. Get a treadmill desktop and walk 12-15 kilometers on it every day (it's easy enough). That's about 700-800kcal, more than enough to create enough caloric deficit for significant weight loss.
And then there's an advantage of increased basal rate.
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