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  1. You don't lose 10 lbs in one week even if you eat ZERO food. Losing a pound of fat requires a calorie deficit of 3500 calories. An adult male has a breakeven point of about 2000 calories per day. So the most you are going to lose in one week of ZERO food is about 4 pounds.

    You aren't accounting for lost water weight. At the start of caloric restriction, it's pretty common to have a sharp drop as the body gets rid of the extra water it carries around to help process all the extra calories that were being consumed previously.

    Obs. this isn't sustainable long term, and it can be frustrating for someone that sees a quick drop when they start caloric restriction, and then their weight loss trend levels out after their water loss stops.

  2. The signs with the posted speed limits are upper limits, not lower limits. Unless you are on an interstate, there generally isn't a minimum speed.

  3. derp. ob. cream and half and half don't have milk in the name.

  4. without either addition to it or extraction from it

    So, milk with vitamin d added, buttermilk, skim milk, chocolate milk, cream, half and half, sweetened condensed milk, and powdered milk should all remove milk from their names?

  5. Re:Need a new hole in your Garage? XD on Tesla Model 3 Now Offers 'Summon' Self-Parking Feature (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Super Cruise is a feature of Cadillac vehicles, not Tesla. I believe the Tesla feature is called Autopilot.

  6. Re:NextDoor next... on Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter To Slash Millions of Followers (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Nextdoor has a website as well, it's not just an app. Jack Mehoff could just have multiple private browsing windows open at the same time. If you want a chuckle, check out the "best" of nextdoor twitter feed @bestofnextdoor

  7. Re:PoW-based public blockchains should be outlawed on As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Wahhh, we should ban things I don't like

    No, you have it all wrong. I like those things and they should be mandatory. The things *I* don't like should be banned.

  8. Re:Good. I am glad on Comcast Confirms Plan To Buy 21st Century Fox and Control of Hulu (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    that glorious future when there is one business so Americans don't have to spend their valuable time trying to decide what to buy.

    FTFY.

  9. How about protesters use this tech to identify agent provocateurs planted by LEO and inciting violence?

  10. Re:Waste of money, invasion of privacy on Dubai To Launch Digital Vehicle Number Plates (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the best thing to happen to the world would be a massive trade war and recession that will set the progress of privacy robbing tech back 50 years and cause superpowers to go bankrupt.

    I find your ideas fascinating, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  11. Re: Not a government controlled currency... on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Meddling with financial goliaths will never end well,

    Better to just roll over and use the financial system that your betters have allowed you to use. Resistance is futile, right?

    and the best we can hope for is for all countries to fall into poverty and crime.

    With our current financial system, that's all that can happen. All the money is concentrating at the top, which is going to cause the whole thing to topple over.

    The smug people trading bitcoin are the fortunate few to have beaten the initial rounds so youÃ(TM)re really just pumping and dumping so you can get out of this blatant pyramid scheme mostly unscathed. In other words youÃ(TM)re a scammer and a liar and you support crime. YouÃ(TM)re promoting misery. Try to be a better human being.

    Wow. There is so much bullshit in those 3 sentences I'd have to believe you're a troll. You don't know what anyones position in bitcoin is. You don't know who is scamming who, who is lying, and you certainly don't know who is a criminal. Try being a human being instead of a Coward.

  12. Re:Meta Currencies? on Bitcoin Dives After SEC Says Crypto Platforms Must Be Registered (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2
    Why would anyone trade their bitcoins (which have some value) for your catcoins (which have no value)?

    Anyone can fork bitcoin and create a new cryptocurrency. They could do it 10 times a day. That doesn't mean the coins they created have any value, or that anyone else wants to acquire those coins.

  13. Re:I don't need a popup blocker anymore on Chrome 64 Released With Stronger Popup Blocker, Spectre Mitigations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I use a chrome plugin called BehindTheOverlay to nuke those.

  14. Re:They'll complain anyway on Apple Will Soon Let Users Turn Off its iPhone-slowing Software (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If only there were someway to easily replace the battery, none of this would be an issue. But that would make the phone 1mm thicker and apple wouldn't get to sell a new phone instead of new battery.

  15. Re:Root is what matters on Google's Fuchsia OS On the Pixelbook (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
    This is why I used to install cyanogenmod, and now install lineageos when I get a new phone. You can install a tiny subset of Gapps, install an open source replacement called microg.

    Or, you could not install them at all, if you can do without

    - network localization services, which means that you can only use the GPS for the positioning

    - Google Cloud Messaging, so you won't receive any push notification for any app that relies on it

    - the Maps API, which means that any app that uses Google Maps through the Maps API will probably crash

    See the microg FAQ for more info.

  16. I'm shocked - shocked! - to find that old movie references are going on in here!

    Inconceivable!

  17. Re:Good luck getting a job before 16 on Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1
    Wow. Just read your link, and just, wow. I have no idea why schools have any say over what a student does when they are outside of school. Having a parent or guardian give consent? OK, I could see that. It's none of the schools effing business.

    Yet another reason I would not like to live in California.

  18. Re:Strange that the offer stands regardless of NXP on Qualcomm Set To Reject $130bn Bid From Broadcom (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    Broadcom and Qualcomm are American.

    The original Broadcom was a US company. When bought out by Avago, but keeping the Broadcom name, they were based out of Singapore. Now they are trying to move back to the US.

  19. Re:They can also use your phone, mic, and GPS! on App Developer Access To iPhone X Face Data Spooks Some Privacy Experts (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    weather app can grab my current location... Shazam or whatnot can use the mic... camera apps can access the camera

    What get me going is when the weather app wants access to the camera, phone, and microphone; Shazam wants to use the camera or location, and they all want access to SMS and your contact list. You really have to pay attention to the permissions you're giving apps, as they tend to want waaaaay more then needed for their core functionality.

  20. Re:Article misses so much information, on purpose? on Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    by not putting limitations on political parties, the constitution left room for the two dominant political parties of the English of the day to spawn two political parties here in 'merica

    I don't think that's it at all. I think the two-party system is propped up by the majority election system and the first past the post vote counting method. Switching to a proportional representation system, with 1 of the many ranked voting methods would allow third (fourth, fifth) parties to become viable. In addition, problems such as gerrymandering, tactical voting, and "wasted votes" would be less of an issue, likely increasing voter participation.

    Proportional representation at the federal and most state levels would require constitutional amendments, so don't count on that happening soon. Changing the vote counting system starting at a local level is much more likely to happen.

  21. This is the mostly correct answer. They can likely analyze the traffic pattern and figure out that you're watching video, and assuming you are using a commercial VPN provider, they can already figure out that the endpoint of the connection is a VPN node. They won't be able to tell whether you're connecting to Hulu, Netflix, or your own home media server.

  22. Re:Time to buy?? on Bitcoin Nears $6,000 For the First Time (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    major financial commitment to me to get just one coin

    A bitcoin is divisible up to 8 decimal places. You don't have to buy them whole. Spend $10 or $100 or whatever other increment you want.

  23. Re:Who shortens state names like that? on Blue Origin Successfully Test Fires Game-Changing BE-4 Rocket Engine (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    You must be young.

    You're defining young as "learned abbreviations before 1959"? Let us know when they update it to include Alaska and Hawaii. And when was the last time you were in I. Terr.?

  24. Re:Who shortens state names like that? on Blue Origin Successfully Test Fires Game-Changing BE-4 Rocket Engine (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Ala. supposed to be Alabama, or Alaska?

  25. Re:Insurance? on US Senate Panel Approves Self-Driving Car Legislation (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    However, I predict that many people will never buy a self-driving car. Instead, they'll go from owning a manually-driven car to using a self-driving car fleet, on a pay per use basis.

    If manufacturers are taking on the liability for self driving cars, they are going to want control of maintenance, repairs, and especially modifications. They'll surely not want to be on the hook for an accident that could have been avoided with better maintenance or if the car had not been modified by the owner. I'm expecting manufacturers to either create a rental service (bonus points for the first one to call it Johnny Cab), or partner with someone like Lyft or Uber, so they have better control of maintenance, but don't have to carry all those depreciating assets on their books.

    In addition to the per-use option, I wouldn't be surprised to see subscription based plans similar to "unlimited" cell phone plans, with family based grouping options. Make sure you don't go over your mileage for the month, those overages get expensive.