> Only because most people who count calories actually don't.

There are two slightly different questions:

- how much weight is lost assuming perfect compliance

- how much weight is lost assuming the compliance of the average people

If I am interested in losing weight, I want to know what will work for me, a measly sack of meat with imperfect discipline, imperfect information and so on.

It’s like saying walking on a tight rope though a canyon is not dangerous - assuming you perfectly go through one edge to another. Sure, it’s trivially true. Not very informative though.

Side note - I always wondered why English speakers tend to 1. keep the original language article and 2. capitalise it even though it is not in the original language. Why is it “La Terreur” and not “la Terreur” or “the Terreur”?

English is not my native tongue but I believe that in English "the" preceding a name means something specific, something near a proper name, while the absence of "the" means something common.

"they were all struck by lightning but John was killed by _the_ final lightning*"

I've no idea why I capitalized "La".

I have some doubts about the data: the government of France has supposedly 1 repos, but for instance the French Statistics Office has 244 repos [0], the "digital" team of the Prime Minister's services has at least 537 repos, and that's what's on top of my head.

[0] https://github.com/orgs/InseeFrLab/repositories + https://github.com/orgs/InseeFr/repositories

[1] https://github.com/orgs/etalab/repositories + https://github.com/betagouv

Thanks for flagging this! These were missing from the initial dataset I used as a starting point, but I can easily extend it myself.

Here is a better list of Norwegian government agencies on GitHub https://github.com/MikAoJk/norwegian-public-organizations/tr...

Surely there are many more that are not present in the data set. How do you plan to find them?

Inflation is the increase in price. You may argue inflation is not an interesting metrics to look at, but it seems weird to say:

- inflation is not informative about X

- X is what matters

- therefore we shall call X "inflation"

There are two obvious limits:

- this may be true in the long run, this does not mean people will magically adapt in one day. Luddites were skilled workers whose jobs were replaced by much less skilled jobs because of mechanisation.

- People work much, much less than in the past: working hours for those who work were almost cut in half in 150 years [0], and there are relatively way less people who work (much longer studies, much longer retirement than a century ago) - if you count time spent on domestic work.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours

Well I do not know if it's going to be profitable but at least the foundation of interstellar trades have already been studied: there's a published paper on it by Krugman (https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf)

There is the double mode of the PadMu: two A4 ereaders with a "double mode" case for 1837€. Not quite what you're asking at all, but the closest right now as far as I know.

What if the human learns all the rules? Then the system as a whole is the human.

“Chat” as in “internet discussion” is pronounced the same way in French as in English, as it is an English loan word, and not like “Chat” as in “cat”.

Luddites were executed or deported [0] though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite