I'm guessing this is a psych/creativity test about drawing an abstract concept, like courage. "Spunky" would then be the abstract concept of spunkiness.
Deep holes are expensive. Oil drilling, the cheapest kind of drilling since it's very common and in soft rock, costs $100-$200 per vertical foot.* A 2 km hole would cost $650,000 - $1.3M. It would not be economical to do this for one house. Then there are operating costs: operating a power plant on the surface is very likely to be cheaper than operating one underground, and temperature difference is bigger. All in all, a traditional geothermal plant (utility scale, at the surface) looks like that for good reasons.
Ground-source heating/cooling is quite different from geothermal heat or power. With ground-source, you just have a heat pump like an ordinary air conditioner, but using the ground as the heat sink instead of outside air. A couple of meters is deep enough. It's nothing like prospecting for the rare resource of accessible hot rock or natural steam, as in Iceland.
Seeding with the time makes the outputs predictable to an adversary. If your games are not moving real money based on your RNG (like online poker), you probably don't have any adversaries trying to guess your random numbers, so you're fine.
True, but almost a tautology: IQ tests are designed to be a metric of intelligence that is stable over time. They indeed have that property. Other correlates of intelligence are less stable. The everyday things by which one's intelligence is judged, like ability in tasks, can clearly be increased.
I'm in an R&D job as well. I agree that a PhD is expected, but I disagree that it's necessary. Most R&D work is so specialized that PhDs are not much closer to it than MS graduates, PhD dropouts, or just people with relevant work experience. Hiring is much easier if you relax the PhD requirement.
Some drugs are developed with a particular mechanism in mind: a known protein target, a known binding site, and a molecule designed to match. For these, scientists have a good shot at knowing what's going on. Even then, a doctor might not know - they don't need to.
Other drugs are developed by a more random method - for example, take every druglike chemical you have on the shelf and put it in a vial with COVID-19. In that case, scientists will try to find the mechanism afterwards, but they might never know for sure.
I don't think that's necessarily true. This is a trick for working around the rule of law, but totalitarian governments don't need that subtlety. They have dummy courts and full control over what's legal. To take the most extreme example, Nazis didn't pass harsh jaywalking laws and then use them on Jews; they actively made laws against Jews.
Even the most tyranical regimes can not blatantly declare the ruler god-emperor like Egyptian Pharoes, that just wouldn't fly - they keep up the appearences one way or the other.
Soviet Union still felt the need to hold elections and have laws, China officials were removed using charges of corruption, etc.
To some extent this famous quote is just sour grapes: Jefferson wasn't much involved in the drafting or passing of the US Constitution, so naturally he was not as attached to it as the other founders. Note that this was a letter written from France.
apples with a crisp texture, when cooked, often have a rubbery texture. This is frequently desireable for various pastries because they hold their shape, but generally a mealy apple which softens when cooked is preferred for an apple pie or simple baked apple.
