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You can change the DNA of specific cells. A change in you skin cell's DNA will not propagate to your bone cells. The skin cell has instructions to make a bone cell, but skin cells do not make use of that part of the code.
Classroom time should be spent on the most important things. Learning for the sake of learning is meaningless. There is no value in knowing how many dots are on the ceiling. The classroom time could been spent learning something more meaningful. For example, cursive writing should not be taught.
I would suggest only praising skills that help a child economically or make life fulfilling. I do not consider learning different ways to say a word as fulfilling as history, art, or philosophy.
Poor people would likely benefit overall from more efficient use of roads.
Interstate roads allowed people to live far from things they need (e.g. jobs). Your suggestion is backwards, people should be located near things, not the other way around. Roads with no fees have distorted supply and demand. The market can't function.
I assume most of the water needed to sustain cows is spent on the plants they eat.
Laws generally exist for a reason, and some reason forbids scooters from the bike lanes. Bike lanes are for bikes only.
A crime motivated by anger might not happen if a few days pass while searching for a weapon. Passion fades with time
Effort is also a factor. Most people I have worked with will completely fail at a task if it requires them to get up from their desk and talk to someone. Finding a gun on the black market seems significantly harder than a shopping trip to Walmart
That's not what he said or implied at all
Fork seems like some feature cloud storage services invented.
Some flash chips compensate by including a small amount of RAM to handle read-modify-write operations.