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Eating is an effect, not a cause. Much of of the cause is subconscious regulatory systems in the brain, which function like magic to a person consciously trying to eat less.

You would get the same reaction if you wore a fireman's coat or trousers made of aluminum foil.

That was almost certainly ESR's signature.

> People against universal healthcare are just good people who are confused and/or deluded. The U.S. has universal healthcare. The Affordable Care Act guarantees everybody can sign…

SSDI is heavily means tested. Almost no one under the age of 55 is eligible. Almost no one with a university degree is covered. Making $750 in any calendar month disqualifies.

> I think we are going to see a major showdown over legality of encryption generally within the next few years with a push for legally required back-doors ... History, people. Hist…

Bro, do you even logic? These comments remind me of those fundamentalist pamphlets with Jesus riding a dinosaur. The whole premise of network neutrality is that ISPs should be forc…

Investigations are about gathering evidence quickly. The trail grows cold very, very fast. Hours, and even minutes, count a lot. By being fast you get inside the other side's decis…

The alternative to a flawed law enforcement system is not a good one. The alternative is rule by violence. We can have rather a lot of corrupt child-enslaving Louisiana judges and …

Indeed. That's why he was also protected by the FBI internal reviews that freed him, the prosecutors who know just how silly a bad fingerprint match will look in court, the compuls…

The article claims they deduced he was an international spy. But the article is a political hatchet job. It is entirely likely that "we put a lot of effort into investigating how h…

Excellent means that they went from a tiny sliver of evidence to someone who raised pretty much every red flag there is. And the excellent response was ... investigate harder. They…

> That's not very good, and that's horrifying as that could literally happen to any of us by nothing more than some bad luck. Try reading my comment again, you fucking dumbass. EVE…

Stop regurgutating that idiotic political spew. Start thinking for yourself or shut the fuck up. The FBI has no jurisdiction. Courts have jurisdiction. A single partial fingerprint…

What, exactly, is terrifying? The FBI did an excellent job of making connections between suspicious facts, the sort of connections that should have been made to prevent the 9-11 at…

Historically, collapsing banks simply collapse all at once. There is no incentive to slowly unveil a fraud. The depositors might kill you.

It's the money handling that is regulated, not the Bitcoins. You can trade Bitcoins for anything except money without any licensing (in the U.S.). Apple wants out so people will no…

> What I take from this story is that the financial law is so complex and unapproachable one can not reliably navigate it without landing in jail, even being a seasoned professiona…

No, and it does not matter who you trust. Analog circuitry simply has too much inbound and outbound information leakage to be trustworthy. You must round it out with a mixing algor…

That's madness or desperation. Sensible people ship bauxite as far as necessary to find cheap energy.

That aluminum paper was right. Firstly, aluminum is originally made on-site at hydroelectric plants in inconvenient places. While it is energy intensive, nobody else is competing f…

Somewhere I read that such a call triggers a fraud red alert.

Are you serious? The U.S. has successfully fought wars in the recent past. High ranking officers are routinely sacked when they lose touch of soldiering and their mission fails. Th…

Planes do not have to be painted. Bare aluminum is pretty corrosion resistant. Many airlines strip most of the paint to save weight.