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If it involves heating food on the stove top or the oven, I'd call it cooking. Find me a child that can make either the bread or jelly without that. I'll wait.

Or acquire freely through a number of digital means

What you want is a distribution-aware contextual binary search. With whatever information you have (appearance, personality, vocabulary, etc), you can come up with a probability distribution in the space of possible ages and start your guess with the value at the 50th percentile. Then depending on whether the true age is higher or lower, your next guess will be either the 25th or 75th percentile. Rinse and repeat.

In reality, the way most people intuitively do agree guessing is already an approximation of this procedure.

How do you start on finding an alternative without first acknowledging the flaws of the current system?

Going to disagree with the responses you have so far. You need to consider both the cost and benefit of taking precautions. The cost of sending someone else in your place is low. The benefit is that you negate that small chance of getting assaulted. The cost of not driving in a car-centric society? It's way higher. It could mean not being able to go to the store to buy groceries, or not being able to get a job. For most people, that cost is much higher compared to the chance of dying in a car crash.

They probably got a lot more fibre in their diets than modern day humans do, so it wouldn't take them as long to finish their business.

If sexual pleasure is the only thing going great in a couple [...] one should probably reconsider if said relationship is still a loving one.

This makes sense if you omit the second condition.

You're basically telling me that asexual people can't love one another.

And seriously, if the friction is the only thing that make you enjoy sex, and not with whom you have sex with, you seriously should reconsider your relationship.

Why would you choose to do anything for fun that isn't mutually enjoyable? You can enjoy both your partner's company and also the activity you do together at the same time. It's not one or the other. Don't like condomed sex? Then don't do it. There's more to a romantic relationship than sex.

So what you're saying is that Andrew Yang should run again.

Part of the reason Amazon works well is because they sell high volumes of each product, allowing them to distribute products ahead of time across warehouses to match expected demand. You can't do that if you only have exactly one of each item.

That's why you always specify the base

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Plus, statistics make up the basis of pretty much all of our science. If you dig into the foundations of stats, you'll find that it's basically just formalizing our feelings. It just happens to be formalized in a way that appears to reflect reality accurately enough to be useful.

Did Xi actually take offense to it? I thought it was just others being overly heavy-handed in their censorship, thus Streisanding the whole thing.

I've always just done lots of water and waited it out. I see medication at the pharmacies labeled "cold medication", but I never looked into what they do.

Meaning that it's just marketed as cold medication without doing anything specifically for colds?

For each tab, I find the project(s) associated with it, find my notes for that project, save the URL for that page in the appropriate place in my notes, then close the tab.

If it's something that isn't for a specific project (e.g. reading something because it looks interesting), then I just close it. It's not important. There's plenty of entertainment to be found without those.

The difficulty in training an AI is dependent on data availability. So this is just a question of choosing a language that has the least amount of writing. You can trivially choose any language that doesn't have a writing system at all and invent a writing system for it. But then you'd also run into the problem of learning the language yourself.

Maybe it's "single" as in "one unit of mother"