I'm thorougly convinced there is a way of interpreting these four words that doesn't lead to mass murder. Really.

x=x+x
x=x+x
x=x+x

Three additions. At the end, x will containt eight times its initial value.

8", 5.25" or 3.5"?

I'll gladly have a look at your advertisements as long as they do not interfere with the page I am trying to view. In your interest, I will block anything that is intrusive (popup ads, anything that hogs 80% of my CPU time due to poorly designed flash, etc), since encountering these things makes me less likely to buy your products and diminishes my view of your company.

Maybe if you have a really bad compiler and a simple, non-pipelined CPU.

I tried to out-optimize my compiler on a simple (ARM Cortex-M3) CPU, and it was really close, but the compiler still beat my hand-optimized code by a few percent, probably because the compilers programmers spent much more time reading the CPUs datasheet than I did.

I've mostly given up assembly. C, if done right, is just as fast and much more readable.

The product containing my first work project is still being sold. Naive as I was, and lacking tutoring/guidance from more experienced folks, I wrote most of it in assembly on a DSP with lots of ... interesting features - six-stage pipeline, delayed instructions, tons of internal states to keep track of (fractional mode, etc), zero-overhead looping, circular buffers in hardware, etc. I hope I'll never have to touch this code again.

Depending on where you are, it might be the last thing you see.

Things like clones and identical twins aside, the scientific way to attribute a certain glob of biomatter to a specific person with a high certainty would be DNA analysis.

The problem here is that this scientific way completely fails for fertilized eggs, as their DNA is clearly different from either biological parent.

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There was plenty of CO2 for plants to go around even before humans started burning coal at industrial scales.

This is basically just un-burning coal. And oil. And natural gas.

I'm sure you could run a side-channel attack on the computer for tells, and I'm also sure the computer could be fitted with a camera and appropriate algorithms to read your heart rate, blood perfusion rate, respiration rate, rate of sweat production, etc, for information about your general level of anxiety, surprise, etc.