I really have to question the way the data is presented here. It makes it seem as if a significant segment of the student population is using student loans to fund crypto investments. There is almost no evidence that this is the case in the broader currency / holdings markets.

At minimum its irresponsible presentation of the data.

Completely aside from the political stuff of whether Kapersky is giving things to the FSB and is therefore an elevated risk - I wonder aloud about the constitutionality of a law targeting specific companies.

For the big Giants of the internet the last thing they want is established precedent where a metro municipal code drives the practice of national or global content.

Expect Facebook to fight back with amicus briefs from every major content provider weighing in on thier side.

This would be a quixotic foray for Seattle, and a phyrric victory the best possible outcome.

Actually, Amazon uses a mix of carriers, and has been making aggressive investments to build its own delivery capacity. The largest carrier by number of packages that Amazon uses is UPS. It also uses FedEx and OnTrac more than USPS based on its financials and its public statements.

USPS is primarily used for non-time sensitive shipping (read: free super saver whatever).

Still, in recent years, they have been making investments in the US and Europe to have a greater stake in regional carriers and to build intra-network shipping capability, as well as true "to the door" capability in major metros which drive high delivery volume.

Amazon is running several jets in both Europe and the US.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Amazon has acquired stakes in france and the UK
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Amazon Flex - where Amazon is running its own "Uber" to deliver packages
https://flex.amazon.com/

The serious answer here, is that politics is populist by its nature. The USPS is ultimately in a position to have to pass major changes back through congressional oversight. Closing of post offices, raising of rates, changing work shifts and delivery schedules in a major way - all have had to go back to congress, where ALL have seen major push back. Change is easy to call for - people want "change" they just usually don't want the change to come at their own expense. So when the post office talks about closing THEIR OWN post office in Podunk, Nebraska, it's time to mount up and call the senator! And when a set of businesses face the prospect of losing absurdly low bulk mail or package rates, they spend hundreds of thousands or millions on their lobbyists to voice doom and gloom predictions in public, to fund "friendly" research, and to grease the skids in congress in private through staff entertainment. Seem cynical? Look for yourself. https://www.linns.com/news/pos... https://www.thenation.com/arti... https://federalnewsradio.com/m... https://federalnewsradio.com/b... Or go search it: https://www.google.com/search?...

The team at IDM (https://idmprogram.com/blog/) and (https://intensivedietarymanagement.com) among others has specialized in exactly this: using fasting and food input based methods to manage insulin response and reduce or eliminate hyperinsulinemia. Even Time magazine in September ran an article on this. http://time.com/4940354/revers...

Both the linked article and its in turn linked source are of dubious integrity, and have highly questionable histories of independent/original reporting. The presentation here at minimum smacks of over-reach and speculation. Our intelligence services - and those of every other country - already do exactly this. So does wikileaks, which is frankly a private intelligence service in all but name. So if the simple story here is "Erik Prince to run privately funded PatriotLeaks" that's a far cry from a US government sponsored "replace the CIA" initiative.

In the same way that some US three-letter-acronym could walk up, serve Cisco or any other company with a FISC order and associated national security gag order so they couldn't even talk about it.... Lets face it, in terms of net capability US FISC/FISA orders ~= FSB knock at the door ~= PLA/MSS order ~= UK GCHQ and Home Secretary order China already forces homegrown buys for government. As do many countries for this reason. The only real news here is that it took so long to happen.