Global warming will definitely affect the future of every person on the Earth directly and to a non-trivial extent.
For any non-trivial software package, it seems to me that a consistent user interface is more helpful than a simple one.
There are non-trivial difficulties with probe design and manufacture, of course, but this is still the coolest thing I've read in Science News in a long time.
The first is simply that the decision-making process would distract key campaign staff at a moment when they have the non-trivial task of running a presidential campaign.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, a significant share of rural households in southern England suffered non-trivial declines in real income.
This is a non-trivial result, in fact highly significant.
Implementing such a change in teaching technique through the existing American educational system would be a non-trivial project.
As Stanford University ethicist Henry Greely told the Academy last month, ‘there is a non-trivial risk of conferring some significant aspects of humanity’ on animals.
Having said that, it's important to understand that there are non-trivial possibilities of much more adverse outcomes.
Even though we might not be able to validate our knowledge of the external world a priori, the fact that we can validate it at all is significant and non-trivial.
But the listing raises non-trivial questions about access to information - even propaganda - that the First Amendment would seem to guarantee.
Therefore, modifying the site to add new capabilities is decidedly non-trivial.
My impression is that the technical issues, non-trivial though they are (especially as regards testing), pale before the political and liability issues.
Programming a Robot to cook French Toast would be non-trivial.
But he won't get there unless he is willing to make some non-trivial mid-course corrections.
There remains the non-trivial question of authentication.
Really, the whole controversy is non-trivial.
All this means that applying patches is a non-trivial and increasingly expert task.
It's a non-trivial exercise and if something goes wrong, it can go spectacularly wrong.
The non-trivial technical problems that keep the space elevator from being built are legion.
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Perhaps it is most famous for presenting the ‘Hundred fowls problem’ which is an indeterminate problem with three non-trivial solutions.