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However, if we are to persist with your example, what you are trying to say is more akin to "Studying malaria and developing, or buying, a genetically engineered infectious disease that uses malaria's infection vector, and stockpiling it in a warehouse, and sometimes secretly using it, and not telling anyone about this isn't making people any sicker."

user731955373on Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (2010)

A diabolical suggestion with a mistake?

user731955373on Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA

http://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2015/05/20/snowdens-glo...

"US cloud computing firms could lose between $22 billion and $35 billion in overseas business over three years. [Following Snowden leaks.]" http://www.securityweek.com/snowden-revelations-costly-us-te...

user731955373on Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/governmen...

user731955373on Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA

Even if they wouldn't "hop into bed" with other governments, if they had hopped into bed with the US govt. they would have lost revenue in those other markets, which would be likely to view Apple products as backdoored by the US government.

As a multinational company, it's in Apple's interests to maintain a 'no backdoors' strong privacy stance, or it will both lose foreign markets (that are afraid of US/other nation's backdoors) and have to contend with increased requests from various governments for backdoors/audits (they got backdoor access, why can't we?), and the associated revenue lose.

user731955373on The NSA and Me (2014)

11 parking garages AND an enormous cyberbrain?!

user731955373on Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

Some scientific backing for the efficacy of caloric restriction, in ailment reduction and increased longevity:

Oxidative Stress, Caloric Restriction, and Aging[0]

Calorie Restriction Promotes Mammalian Cell Survival by Inducing the SIRT1 Deacetylase [1]

Gene Expression Profile of Aging and Its Retardation by Caloric Restriction [2]

Caloric restriction and aging: an update [3]

Calorie Restriction Promotes Mitochondrial Biogenesis by Inducing the Expression of eNOS [4]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987625/ [1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/305/5682/390.short [2] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/285/5432/1390.short [3] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0531556500... [4] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/305/5682/390.short