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  1. Re:Oh no on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 3, Informative

    But some people stay thin much longer, their microbes cause the food to be turned into fat much less.
    Also it's not so simple as "just eat less", the body has a concept of what your 'normal' weight is. If you lose some the chemical processes will change to make more fat and compensate for the weight loss. It probably takes about 6 months of holding an amount of weight before this concept changes.

    Eventually being fat is a combination of many factors, several of which you do have control over.

  2. Re:There will always be tax loopholes on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 2

    "There will always be tax loopholes" No that's the result of politics, it could easily change.

  3. Re:Tax evasion on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    European governments could do this today...

  4. Re:What about VAT? on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    True, that's the taxes citizens pay. And european get a better government in return.

  5. Re:Tax = NSA, the national raisin reserve, etc, et on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have the money myself by paying less taxes myself and letting companies pay the difference that goverment misses out on.

  6. mass stupidity on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 2

    It's so stupid for countries to each have their own special tax exemptions thinking they can lure in some extra companies. The end result is that big companies have meaningless (=no extra jobs but empty buildings) box offices everywhere and effectively pay no taxes. Anywhere! So in the end the countries not only receive no benefits, but also less taxes from their own companies. And it heavily favors big companies over smaller ones. But I guess politics are too corrupt and big companies are paying too much 'lobbying' money to keep this stuff going.

  7. Re: jury on Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 2

    eh? fairness? People have to pay taxes, so should companies!

  8. And it will be used against people as well on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Putting it to career choices, to pay and employment, have a huge upside if we do it right."

    Yea especially the "if we do it right" part. Because if you do it wrong it could have very damaging personal consequences. Machine learning by definition generalizes across the population, so if you don't behave like others have before you, you are screwed. Especially in the USA where employers have very little power this will be used against people and cause serious career damage.

  9. Re:It's not only the DCMA, of course.... on Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber · · Score: 1

    Except DMCA claims are often totally ridiculous and not even read, they are just blindly accepted.
    If this claim had actually been read by a person they would have realised it was nonsense.

    The problem you mention is the opposite. This was used by the accuser to find out who the accused was.

  10. So DMCA has helped terrorists on Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if there will be push back against the DMCA system now that it helped terrorists. Like there has been push back against encryption.

  11. How to measure quality? on The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality · · Score: 2

    So stronger compile time checking leads to better quality code, no surprise there. I'm a fan of strong checking during compile time. But dynamic features might allow the programmer to achieve more with their program. Either way when you see that project organisation factors have a much greater effect, it seems to me that the language effect is insignificant. What's really interesting to me is how they measured the code quality. How did they determine that a commit was defective?

  12. Re:The first step to control on Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Measures of control should be subject to democratic discussion. In which case the scientists would be right. Sadly the USA is not a democracy anymore. So I agree that this research will lead to more government control.

  13. Water aids terrorists on New GCHQ Chief Says Social Media Aids Terrorists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Drinking water allows terrorists to remain hydrated, even in dry environments! Social media aid those who use them.

  14. Re:Bullshit. on China To Merge High-Speed Train Makers To Cut Competition · · Score: 2

    Except both these companies are already state owned so if they are looking for trade secrets they can just ask.

  15. Re:Why at a place of learning? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    There is one: church. Only a university gives validity to the ideas

  16. So don't start a news website on Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On US Spying · · Score: 1

    If you've shown to be against public interest why start a news site at all? Should the point of a news site not be to inform the readers? But we already know Verizon will act against everyone else's interests, so why consider anything they say on any subject?

  17. Updating on It's Official: HTML5 Is a W3C Standard · · Score: 1

    It's so sad that some are still stuck on older versions of IE (South Korea).
    Especially when there are two free and better alternatives...
    A customer of my company now want's us to make an app we made working for IE 9 :(

  18. Re:And anyway on Elon Musk Warns Against Unleashing Artificial Intelligence "Demon" · · Score: 1

    Friction can become so great that nobody bothers to overcome it. Most societies stopped developing technology after a certain point. So this 'infinite' drive to develop technology is not a common society attribute.

  19. Re:Municipal Internet is Inevitable (hopefully) on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 2

    Actually it should not be organized by governments, only regulated.
    As many other countries have already shown!
    Sadly the US seems to love capitalism so much that it wants to give companies infinite power, which they then abuse...

  20. Re:alternatives?? on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    Playing games.
    Being bored is not an excuse to make someones life miserable.
    If you need to hurt others to satisfy your needs, your a sadist.
    We should not just accept that because it's gonna happen anyway.

  21. Just like in real life on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    You don't have the freedom to destroy a persons life in real life (stalking). Neither should you have that freedom on the internet.

  22. Re:Embalm, Burn, Bury on Trans-Pacific Partnership May Endanger World Health, Newly Leaked Chapter Shows · · Score: 1

    Sadly the US already has treaties like this with bad consequences.
    For freedom, not companies. They get to sue government when they don't like a law and get paid for it.

  23. Because companies are entitled to maximum profits, even if they do a crappy job.

  24. Why so slow? on Google Fiber To Launch In Austin, Texas In December · · Score: 1

    Are they simultaneously expanding elsewhere?
    Are they being blocked by cable companies who know they will lose to any competition?

    They are also deploying weather balloons in extremely poor countries to get people anywhere on the internet.
    At this rate those people will have better internet than most US citizens, and for free.

  25. Better suits on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 1

    It's crazy to me that those suits the caretakers have to use are so unpractical.
    One would think that with modern technology (space suits) we would be able to engineer a practical suite that can hold out ebola.