moles

Modern cars measure the amount of O2 in the exhaust and adjust the mixture to keep the moles-of-O2 to moles-of-gasoline ratio roughly fixed.

You could keep pouring more effort into whacking moles, or you could reduce the stakes of the game.

Surely other state actors would have moles at these levels - so they probably got all this stuff as well.

McCarthy spurred the removal of Soviet moles, Communist sympathizers, and other security risks from sensitive positions.

This would go hand in hand with just taking on more involved and elaborate cooking projects (ramen, making moles, smoked meats).

Here it seems like you're talking about moles being paid to insert new vulnerabilities.

From Bamford's books, I get that the NSA has historically relied on moles within US firms for privileged access.

The NSA/CIA/FBI almost certainly do have moles working within the major tech companies.

Well, 1 kg of ATP is about 2 moles, and since this is ATP->AMP (10.9 kcal/mol) that's about 21.8 kcal, ignoring other upkeep.

If you consider a human being to be a 50kg bag of water, that's 2750 moles of water, or ~1.7 * 10^27 molecules.

It is like whack-a-mole in that there are always more moles.

They have allowed moles supplying info to the Soviets to go unprosecuted because nabbing them would have tipped off the Russians that their communication channels weren't secure.

The effective kind of security questions look something more like "how many moles do you have on your entire body" or "what is the position (in dental notation) of the tooth you cracked when you were 23".

But given that most enthalpies are in the kJ/mole range and most moles of things are pretty heavy relative to 9e18 (the speed of light squared) that you might as well round it out and say "no mass is created or destroyed in an ordinary chemical reaction"

Intelligence department / service, is a potential terrorist, and even then we should be careful in case of moles and home grown radicals" Pretending we're discussing something reasonable here is incredible foolish and worst of all, the United States continues to drag the rest of the world into their paranoid power trip.