If they tell law enforcement they can’t produce an unencrypted copy and it’s later proven that they could, the potential penalty would likely be more severe than anything they could have gained by using the data themselves. And any employee (or third party they tried to sell the data to) could rat them out—so they’d have to keep the information within a circle too small to make use of it at scale. And even if it never leaked, hackers would eventually find and exploit the backdoor, exposing its existence. And in either case they’d also have to face lawsuits from shareholders (rightly) complaining that they were never warned of the legal risk.

I guess in that sense you could say the only “creator” is the Big Bang.

“West Martians”.

“This Land”.

No, not any more than someone telling you the plot of a book would count as reading it—that’s generally the extent of the original work’s content that survives the process of adaptation. (Possible exceptions are faithful adaptations of stage plays like Shakespeare or Euripides—in that case watching a subtitled production might be considered the equivalent of reading the script.)

And the honeybee populations least in need of saving are the big commercial operations.

I see more comments in this thread warning that everyone here is going to say this than I see comments actually saying it.

The current, extravagantly wasteful generation of AIs are incapable of original reasoning. Hopefully any breakthrough that allows for the creation of such an AI would involve abandoning the current architecture for something more efficient.

Maybe not—current AI seems more focused on mimicking and distilling human behavior than on reasoning out optimal behavior on its own.

Quantum circuits aren’t general-purpose computers—they’re added to conventional computers to allow them to perform a small handful of algorithms more efficiently. I don’t believe any of those algorithms would benefit the basic features of an operating system enough that it would make sense to modify an OS to require the use of one.

(Although I could totally see Microsoft doing something like only licensing their circuit’s drivers to run on Windows.)

I believe so—see Wake-on-LAN.

States are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution from “enter[ing] into any treaty, alliance, or confederation” with foreign states, but there are plenty of cases of state and local governments joining economic partnerships and initiatives.

If the dark ages were so called due to the shortage of sources, ours will be called the glare-blind age in contrast.

Careful, Menocchio.

The gist.

…gist processes form representations of an event’s semantic features rather than its surface details, the latter being a property of verbatim processes.

While [Trump-supporting] CEO Andy Yen’s recent public statements have raised my hackles more than a little, Proton remains structurally committed to privacy, encryption, and user control, ensuring its ecosystem stays independent of political shifts.

That’s a pretty weak definition of “Trump-proof”.

Found the vampire.

I don’t understand—you think you’re one of the last people left who started using the internet in the 90s?

I would argue that any group of non-self-selected humans will have a handful of members who are inherently good or bad, but as a whole they will be no better or worse than any other group raised in similar circumstances and sharing similar experiences. So any blanket condemnation of an entire group is really a condemnation of the circumstances they’ve been subjected to.

That’s like saying you can continue to do business with the guy who keeps trying to stab you if you keep out of arm’s reach.

It’s not wrong, but it’s not addressing the underlying problem.