non-zero

• “There's a non-zero chance that such resource utilization wouldn't even warrant humans on site - or near it.”

  Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch

• “As far as we know, electrons are stable, with unchanging non-zero mass.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In the End Is the Beginning

• “Even for ‘OC’, this is a non-zero sized market, and ‘OC’ is a monopoly.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Deadweight Loss

• “Energy and mineral wealth sources, as well as the "toxic trash" that our systems produce, vanishing aquifers, transportation lines (e.g. the opening of the Northwest Passage) are all critical to who wins and who loses -- and we would note here that the only sustainable solution is a non-zero win-win.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert David Steele: What's Wrong with America? Let Me List the Books....

• “Having more than you actually need is a good thing and lets you start rebuilding the fund from non-zero once you are employed again.”

  Automate Unexpected Costs With A "Stupid Mistakes" Sub-Account | Lifehacker Australia

• “The only effect of the issuance of Treasury securities is to support non-zero interest rates.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Bad Economics and Worse Political Science of Fiscal Retrenchment

• “That would be a non-zero chance that would also upend their entire strategy to get to a bill signing at all!”

  Matthew Yglesias » Who Hates the Public Option?

• “Even when there are no particles present, the quantum field is simply in its lowest-energy state, and this non-zero energy of the so-called 'vacuum state' duly has a detectable effect.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Regulators could also assign them a non-zero risk weight under the standardized approach and suddenly these bonds are not risk-free rates any longer.”

  The Huffington Post: José Viñals: Government Bonds: No Longer a World Without Risk

• “They'll need to take some stuff back with them ... like this dresser and the mirror for it, and the sweaters that are too hot to wear in this lovely non-zero climate.”

  abandoning it at the right point

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