marcos

That excerpt does nothing even similar to claiming the definition makes things clear.

I have no idea what l is, but given the context of axiomatization of arithmetic, I'm almost sure the author picked a fair and precise example.

but whatever chemicals they add to these things makes just 1 small burger feel like you overate.

That's usually a feature of good food. I agree that it's odd that a hamburger would be that way, but usually what causes that is fiber.

Wait, the STEMnator can explain everything to humanity researchers but can't explain to non-academics?

Yeah:

parseInt("a") -> NoT a NuMbEr

Israel has been claiming they are "a week away" from having the bomb for 30 years. They have been working on a bomb for 60 years, since the US worked with them to start their nuclear project.

Some 20 years ago they got in a situation where it would actually take a couple of months to make a bomb. They seem to have stopped there on purpose.

Is that the part that was confusing?

it feels like electricity because it’s nearly instantaneous!

It takes hundreds of ms for a signal to go from your brain to your foot. Electricity on wires travels several times around the world in that time.

But for most of the distance the signals do travel as electricity. (At least the ones that get to be electricity, our brain has several kinds of signals.) It's just a particularly slow form of electricity.

The Javascript literal interpretation of NaN never fails to amuse me.

I don't think the US military complex consider that "less undesirable" than basically any other possible outcome.

... well, it may be better in their minds than an asteroid destroying Earth before they can cash-out. Maybe. I'm not sure about this one...

Hum, no. They are "dangerously close" to making them for 30 years... Actually "a week away" from making them.

They have actually been working on them for 60 years. IMO, it looks like that some 20 years ago, the Iran leadership decided to solve all of the hard problems and stop there so they can move fast if they need to.

They just had the largest protest in their history, have a handful of cities under military intervention to stop the protests, and are close to elect somebody that promises to fight against the federal government as mayor of their largest city.

What exactly do you expect them to do?

So, they wished the increased spending to the monkey paw and got exactly what they were wishing for: countries are cancelling orders of complex US equipment all over the world, and Europe is developing a military industry to compete with them.

That season had so much potential...