FYI this is what it means in America.

Admittedly, given the current, ahem, political climate, this is almost certainly the answer the OP was looking for. But it's worth noting that this answer is only true for precisely two jurisdictions: The United States and Liberia.

No other countries have grand juries.

Adding to this, if the US reneged on its commitment to pay back American bond holders, and it represents a significant portion of a retirement investment, it hurts US citizens. Given that the US is comprised of its people, it wouldn't be beneficial to handwave away the debt.

When talking about food, corn can still mean a small hard particle, like the salt they use in making corned beef.

It’s also super cheap and easy to do. The one exception I’ve seen is my older Apple mouse, where seemingly for aesthetic reasons the batteries are in parallel ( Also means you can take one out at a time to charge, which is kind of nice but mostly pointless at the same time)

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Perhaps try answering the question with a bit more physics and bit less armchair philosophy next time. This is so incredibly lazy and wrong on so many levels

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>beetroot (I think Americans call them beats)

You have a typo. We call them beets—"ee" instead of "ea". But you are correct.

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That's possibly it yes

Small nuclear reactors probably would be perfect for the job. It would also be a good way to improve security around desalination plants in the future.

Although, I think if water security really did begin to get pressing then I would imagine that the government would step in to set up reservoirs and water networks to bring water to where it's needed over a much bigger distance. The US relies on their river networks because (like nearly every country in the world) settlements were built on rivers and next to easily potable water. If climate conditions change and lakes and rivers dry up then I've no doubt that public works (and money) would be fired up to build new infrastructure. With the added benefit that construction jobs would be created.

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I think this was actually with a wasp collecting food for its nest. The wasp would collect a caterpillar, leave it just outside the nest and then head inside the burrow to check it was safe before taking the prey inside. But when the caterpillar was moved while the wasp was in the burrow, it would take the caterpillar back to the same spot as before then go inside to check the nest again. This pattern couldn't be broken.

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I think people are thinking of the laymen meaning of space, as in outer space as a thing that exists in juxtaposition to not space.

Wait, so “space” is infinite and things (matter and energy) are simply expanding further into it/further away from each other?

Computer networks send data one bit at a time. It’s a state change, either electrical or with light pulses. It happens faster and faster as technology improves, but it’s still just one bit at a time. Hence, bits per second.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s a file or a digitized real-time data stream or a bunch of random characters, it’s sending one bit at a time.

Also, when you’re transmitting a file over a network, it’s not just the file that’s being sent. Overhead bits are added to the stream, whether it’s the source & destination addresses, fragmentation flags, error checking bits, and a slew of other bits used for controlling the traffic somehow.

What ive seem, depends on the line, and what item.

Some or most items could de-route to a QA, Repair, check-up station that has manual controls to see if its still withing the standards to be still OK even if robots, cameras and what not said it was not, and on other places, they just plain up trash the items (or recycle where possible)

How are you going to enforce the contract? Go to court and tell the court, "your honor, I illegally paid the defendant to not say anything about the crimes I committed, but she said things about the crimes I committed"? The court is there to uphold the law not to allow people to cover up infractions of the law.

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Well, it's infinite. Always been. So it's just expanding. Not "into" anything.

It might help to think of it as "the universe is thinning out".

The thing is, the universe was in a state of expansion from day one. Pretty violent expansion. You could call it an explosion. Or a "big bang". It's been expanding / exploding ever since.

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There are 7.8 billion people in the world. Obviously, many surveys are only intended for a certain audience, and even in very general surveys there is a problem of getting that many people to take part. But the more people you ask, the more likely you are to get a general result that really reflects the average or majority answer.

Say you are friends with a lot of model train enthusiasts. You ask the first 30 people you know for their main hobby, and the answer will be appear to be overwhelmingly model trains. But expand that to the first 300 people you know, and some more common hobbies will end up being the result, but model trains might still stick out as being quite a popular answer. Expand that to 3000 people, and you'd start to see that model trains are actually a pretty niche hobby.

There can still be biased or unusual results in a survey with more people, because you have to consider how the participants were found and how diverse they are in other categories (for example, a poll on Reddit with thousands of answers will still only reflect the opinions of people who spend time on Reddit). And a smaller survey could actually have very representative answers, but this is hard to know.

There's a lot to consider in statistics. But it's generally an important factor to consider to get a wider distribution of answers.

30 is not representative at all.

Generally the minimum is 1000 people taken at random to be at least a bit representative