negatives

Adultery and all its negatives are going to continue to exist regardless of whether or not AM exists.

The false positive rate is defined as (the number of false positives over (false positives + true negatives)).

The syntax for negatives IS very clunky, mostly because they are rarely exercised/used in most of the use cases.

These are not even counting scanning negatives (can be massive) or digital backs for medium format cameras.

In order to disallow negatives, you need signed arguments, or else to reduce the range.

False positives will lead to personnel confusion, and false negatives will lead to dead swimmers.

Obama's greatest contribution overall was the lack of negatives: the US economy will self-heal so long as you stop stabbing it.

Presumably the advantages of having a memory safe language don't have the benefits for the OpenBSD team that outweigh the negatives.

Most of the negatives / cons I have heard before (impact on wildlife, where to discharge brine, energy, etc)...

Tcl is not without its warts, but positives far out weigh any negatives.

So I always try to err on the side of false positives instead of false negatives.

For all we know the ScaleWindowExtEx did have a domain check that disallowed negatives, but it put it after the division.

The neat trick is that the bloom filters have no false-negatives - the data might not exist (false positives), but it will never say "no" if it does exist.

Your age, the buzzwords ("skill sets") on your CV, lack of college degree, possibly lack of recent relevant experience -- all of those can be negatives and will keep you out of a lot of jobs.

The feedback I have tended to give is along the lines of "Our process has a high chance of providing false negatives, so just because we are not offering you a position doesn't mean we are convinced you are not qualified.