My layman guess would be that shortly after formation Earth was just a ball of lava that destroyed every organic component so when the surface solidified it was sterile.
I used to wonder how the US population could be so stupid to elect someone counter to their best interests, then threads like these remind me that people are really, really bad at logic and such.
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned here is that shorter line limits (80, 120) make my life easier for non-trivial merge conflicts and diffing changes.
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