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While partitioning these cultural attitudes and artifacts by decades is a useful heuristic, I often feel like the actual cutoff point is around mid-decade. The late '80s feels closer the the early '90s than it does the early '80s.

Huh? He's saying that caloric restriction does work, but many people only achieve that by temporarily restricting their food options.

The idea that dieting is a temporary change to your food habits is why most "diets" eventually fail.

The orbit is closer and farther at different times of the year, but that is not the reason for the change of seasons.

> Even numbers end with even digit

True (in even bases).

> Since 30 is even so must be 0

This is essentially the converse of the previously statement. Fortunately, the statement is based off an equivalence so it is also True.

Idempotent means feeding the output back in as the input will result in the same output. It might require purity, but is conceptually distinct.

For example, boolean negation is a pure function as it depends only its input and has no side-effects, but it's not idempotent since: not(not(var)) != not(var)

The confusion might be due to everyone using concurrency to mean concurrency and/or parallelism.

I believe it was God who included it, Moses just wrote it down.

The request is unreasonable, but is the second question not valid?

To be precise, the "bomb" was being obfuscated by the password, not the password per se.

Most of the answers to that last question are inane and unproductive. The first answer is funny though: https://www.quora.com/What-is-1+1

Didn't the investigation end when the report was released?

Did you mean < 5 years?

You can disable all location services. The incorrect impression is that a user has complete granular control over the use of location services.

Secure but inconvenient has an immediate and visible downside, whereas insecure convenience has delayed and nebulous downsides. Convenience will always win when appealing to the lowest common denominator, but maybe we can have both.