Why, you're perfectly correct! The arrangement of the atoms doesn't matter one bit, just the constituent elements. Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) is perfectly safe to eat!
Oh wait no it isn't. Even though it's just hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen.

Failure to account for cheating and lying by anyone who can get away with it is a fundamental failure. Any theory of economics that assumes things dramatically at odds with reality (eg rational actors, perfect information, fair behavior, etc) is utterly useless when applied to reality. A bit like how the classical physics example of a spherical cow in a vacuum is really, really bad at modeling the movement of livestock. Thankfully physics has gotten rather far beyond such toy models, hopefully economics will get there too.

I hate the feeling of a watch on my wrist. I'm not sure why, but I never liked it. When I was a kid before cell phones became common I discovered that, and quickly became the only kid in high school with a pocket watch. And a pocket smart watch is just a cell phone. Possibly with a lanyard, though my current phone (SGS4) sadly lacks a way to attach one.

Naw, just a typical Twitter user.

At the same time, any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence.

In the USA, and 28.

The issue with n=1s is that they can always be contradicted. For example, I'm almost the opposite of you.

I'm male. I'm 5'9" and weigh 118-120 lbs. I eat mostly bread and vegetables, rice, potatoes, with some meat and fruit. I can't stand most fat (most fatty acids taste like something rotting to me) and so I tend to have a very low fat intake. HCLF, effectively. I tend not to feel hunger much, so I use alarms to remind me when to eat. I'm active, I have stamina, and my biggest problem is keeping away from being dangerously underweight. When I diet I generally increase the meat/eggs/dairy amounts I eat in an attempt to gain some weight because I've gotten too thin. If I ate "as much as I feel like eating" I'd probably be grossly malnourished.

Different things work for different people. While it's true that no one can escape thermodynamics (if you eat less than you use, you'll lose weight) it's also true that if a diet is uncomfortable people won't stay with it. There's also the issue of bioavailability of the energy, the number of calories you actually get from a serving of food can't be more than what is measured by a calorimeter but it can be less.

It was listed as being a parody account several days before the raid.

Milk and cereal can spontaneously combust in this world too, if you enjoy the rich taste of potassium flakes.

I just moved, got comcast, hooked up my modem & router (brought my own, but reset to factory defaults before install) and got ipv6 out of the box. No mucking about needed.

I just moved into a new apartment, and Comcast was the only broadband ISP (DSL wouldn't be broadband in this location). I bought my own modem, they wanted $8/month to rent theirs. $96/yr for a $70 device. You'd have to be stupid to be of legal age to subscribe to their service and yet unable to do the math to save the money.

It's a problem for gun laws that they don't deprive everyone equally. I did not intend to imply that I support gun laws without amending the constitution. I agree that they're unconstitutional. I think that handguns (including revolvers) should be restricted, since they're used far more than rifles in violent crime and have fewer legitimate uses. They're more concealable, easier to carry, significantly less useful for hunting or competition target shooting, and nowhere near as good as a shotgun for home defense. Sadly most gun legislation focuses on rifles, which are far less useful for crime.

I don't think that the 2nd amendment is useful for resisting the spread of tyranny. Modern tyrants don't work through martial law, they work through bread and circuses. Keeping the people fat and complacent is far more useful, since there are never enough at any time with nothing to lose. 'Brave New World' was far more prophetic than '1984.' Claims that the 2nd amendment provides an effective check against tyranny are misinformed at best.

Gun laws have a big problem: there are already tons of guns in the US. Guns last a long time, even a poorly maintained gun will generally still fire, just not accurately. This means that a decrease in availability of guns to criminals will lag the decrease to law-abiding citizens by decades.

So just as dangerous as any small particulate matter. It will stick to space suits, get in via airlocks, cover equipment that goes outside, etc. You don't want to be breathing fine rock dust. The levels in the pressurized areas will be low, but it's still something to be concerned with. Even if not breathing, it can get into mechanical components of suits and machinery and cause wear. Of course this is assuming a system with a pressurized base and the outside area having natural Martian atmosphere (tenuous and oxygen-free, but present.)

That said, dust can be dealt with. The US military has been learning how to do so in Iraq, dust gets into everything there. It takes quite a bit of effort to keep things clean and operational in a dusty desert environment.

I read it as suggesting one of many possible difficulties with starting a mars base. Scientists have studied the issue of lunar dust toxicity, but further studies are needed. Mars has a lot of dust, and if it's toxic then extra precautions will need to be taken. A work of fiction has explored this possibility, so it's not a new idea. I don't think he was trying to imply that Red Mars is factual, merely that it is illustrative and partially based on a real potential problem.