andylei

your furnace doesn't know what temperature your house is if the furnace isn't connected to a thermostat

i'll answer your argument with the initial paragraph you quoted:

> A compiler for C/C++/Rust could turn that kind of expression into three operations: load the value of x, multiply it by two, and then store the result. In Python, however, there is a long list of operations that have to be performed, starting with finding the type of p, calling its __getattribute__() method, through unboxing p.x and 2, to finally boxing the result, which requires memory allocation. None of that is dependent on whether Python is interpreted or not, those steps are required based on the language semantics.

The previous paragraph is

> Another "myth" is that Python is slow because it is interpreted; again, there is some truth to that, but interpretation is only a small part of what makes Python slow.

He concedes its slow, he's just saying it's not related to how interpreted it is.

case would still happen, just without a jury (maybe)

No, that's a quote from someone they interviewed who hasn't read the full paper (the full paper is not yet available). They are saying that the details of the study will determine how significant the results are.

> So correlation is likely just a data artifact of poor data analysis and nothing to do with intermittent fasting?

You have no idea whether the data analysis is good or not; the only thing that was released is the abstract.

BBBY is not in any major indices

but also

> Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

i mean, then they wouldn't?

> nobody in the 20th century imagined that within just two decades we'd be able to sequence the genome of a new pathogen within days, much less hours, or design a new vaccine within two weeks and have it in human clinical trials a month later

but you still can't get unemployment if you voluntarily leave your job

> simple and flat taxes

what is a flat tax?

is it something like: "everyone pays 5%"? if so, how does that solve the problem of misreporting?