Horse shit.

Dipshit Prosecutor: The defendant claims he was with you on the night of the 15th. What were you doing on the night of the 15th?

Witness: I plead the 5th.

Jackass Judge: Nonono, you don't have rights because I am a retard! Answer the question or go to jail.

Defense Attorney: WTF? Are you kidding me?

Dipshit Prosecutor: He won't be charged for anything he says because we grant him magical immunity. Promise!

Witness: Okay, well I was busy across town raping children in the basement of that building I shot the President from a few days earlier. I was there for a damned week, just raping a bunch of kids I had stolen earlier to pass time, because I had to wait for the cops to leave.

You can't know what someone will say in their answer before you force them to answer, thus you can't grant them immunity for their answer.
Thus, you, and the dumbass judges who "think" like you, are fucking retarded. The 5th amendment does not only apply when you're being asked certain questions or when you're being prosecuted. It applies at all times. The government can't legally force you to say anything against yourself..

If you build a computer that does 1 check per second and uses 1 Watt, then how will the universe run out of energy, exactly? Is the energy destroyed?

You can model the universe forward or backward in time and everything holds up.
Just build a model of your crypto-accelerating hardware (which is actually fairly simple) in a suitably-accurate physics engine.
Set the initial state to the end state (where the output is the hash you want to reverse).
Run your reverse physics simulation.
Wait.
Get the inputs.

Whether this modeling approach is computationally feasible (or even just better than other attacks) is beside the point. The idea that there are truly one-way mathematical functions useful for security is absurd. Just because you don't know how to reverse them now doesn't mean you won't know how to reverse them in the future, or that your enemies don't know how to reverse them now. (Useless one-way functions do exist - such as f(x) = 0*x; given just an output of 0 there's no way to determine what x was.)

I do, but that doesn't help when there are 3 different questions questions and their response tells me they clearly didn't read the questions, my suggestions, or my notes explaining why I'm recommending what I'm recommending and what the implications of making that decision are. Inevitably, I'll get a call a month later asking if we can change that shit, and I'll refer to the previous email, only to get a "Oh, well it needs to be the other way." response.

Bullshit. Individual bottlers do their own thing. Both Coke and Pepsi vary significantly in taste by region due to the different water sources used. On top of that you have the different containers (glass/plastic/aluminum), fountain drinks, real-sugar variants (Mexican Coke), etc. which all drastically alter taste.

Your Stevia claim is also bullshit. Show me where and when both Coke and Pepsi publicly stated they were testing Stevia, then show me where and when they both "almost immediately" gave up on it. Then show me when Stevia "first came out".

Coke & Pepsi, as well as Hersheys and Nabisco and every other major food brand DO go to great lengths to control consistency, but the shit in your post came straight from your ass.

Have you heard of the popular TV show called Breaking Bad?????

You expect a 50/50 mix, and you're getting 45/55 mix.
You key off of the 45 (glucose), so you're expecting 45 fructose.
You're getting 55/45 the fructose you expect.

Bottom line: 22.2% of the fructose in HFCS isn't handled properly. Fructose isn't a problem unless you have tons of it. Fruit has fiber so it generally isn't a problem - you'll be full or bored of fruit before you consume too much fructose by eating fruit. Fruit juice is bad. HFCS is bad. HFCS being used in some many things can make it hard to avoid.

Pull out phone
Unlock phone
Open app
Enter pin
Wave phone over reader
Choose payment method

Pull out wallet
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Swipe

Back to the paradigm of getting your shit in order and knowing what you want before you ask me to build it.
Back to the paradigm of reading the emails I send out.
Back to the paradigm of responding to emails, answering questions therein (I even bold them for you!), and providing unambiguous responses. "Yes, that's fine." is not a proper response to an email containing 3 separate questions (none of which are satisfied with a "yes" or a "no").
Back to the paradigm of understanding your own business and policies so that when I build an application around them you don't have to ask me to change the underlying design a week after launch.
Back to the paradigm of not having meetings that result only in you saying "we'll get back to you on that" when asked about things in your policy that I have to model in the application.

As a developer I'll just say that "face time" and interacting with coworkers are two of the main impediments to me getting shit done.

Mod me down. Mod me down because you secretly hate yourself.

Apple released a beta.
Security researcher found and document bugs.
Apple fixed their shit.
Apple released their shit.
Security researcher is sad that he didn't get the attribution (attention) he wanted.

If you want attention wait until it leaves beta and ships, THEN expose the flaws PUBLICLY.
If you want improved software everything worked out fine, and I say this as someone who takes every possible opportunity to shit on Apple.

Where did everyone go? Are you all headed to Soylent News? I'm getting lonely here.