Three observations about your post:

1) The idea that quantum tunnelling plays an important role in brain function is interesting but speculative. If you look at the existing literature on neuroscience and the neural basis of learning, you'll see that 99.999% of it simply makes no reference to "quantum tunnelling".
2) There are many systems which can technically be called "non-deterministic", but for which non-deterministic part just isn't important. The opening of a sodium channel in a cardiac cell is ultimately non-deterministic and probabilistic (you certainly can't project the trajectory of every ion), but the errors tend to cancel out and just aren't important for predicting how the cell behaves. To paraphrase Isaac Asimov: We can't predict the behavior of individual atoms, but we know that if we have a closed container full of helium atoms and we double the temperature, the pressure will exactly double.
3) If we *did* make the discovery that "quantum tunnelling" (or other probabilistic, non-deterministic behavior) is somehow essential for brain function... and that's a VERY big if... there is no reason to think that this behavior couldn't be emulated by a machine.

I dont use GPL if I can avoid it, even if it means I have to pay. My software is all OSS as in OPEN for anyone to use, via BSD or MIT licenses, and none of it will ever be GPL or any of the derivatives that are designed to intentionally make software have 0 monetary value.

I dont prevent GPL software from using my code, but GPL prevents me from using theirs.

GPL isnt about freedom, its about ensuring no one can make money

Thats not actually the point of OSS. And RMS is not god and does not define it

The point of OSS is to not get fucked by the vendor. The point is not getting locked out of your shit because the vendor was taken over by some shitbag company like Broadcom and completely changes the rules and then holds your existing use of it hostage because they can. Or refuses to spend their time dealing with your scenario for your business. Or a thousand other reasons that have 0 to do with paying for it.

GPL nutjobs have this silly fantasy about never paying for it, but they have corrupted the actual meaning for that purpose, not what was intended.

The GPL virus has always been problematic for business, which is why the smart ones use MIT/Apache/BSD software in their products and why ACTUAL OPEN SOURCE advocates dont use GPL for their stuff, its more restrictive than pretty much any source license Ive ever seen.

Open source means the source is available for you to use under clear guidelines that apply to EVERYONE equally ... transfer of money for it has exactly dick to do with it.

GPL is just a fetish for those who refuse to understand how the real world works. Which is why no one can name a successful company that ONLY uses GPL software. Every one you want to name sells proprietary software to make money while piggy backing on GPL software. I challenge you to name one that doesnt.

Yes, Linus and Linux are successful ... but you notice they didn't follow that nutjob shit in GPL 3?

If you want Open, GPL ain't it, its restrictive as shit. Microsoft has licenses that arent nearly as restrictive... for a fee. Microsoft will hand you the windows source code - for a fee, under terms that meet the OSS definition but not in a way that let's you sell/steal/copy theft it.

GPL itself isnt evil, its goals are honorable. But 99.9999% of GPL nutjobs only like it cause they can use it without compensation. For them it has nothing to do with 'open' and everything to do with being cheap assholes who dont think people should be compensated for their work. They cant use it themselves, someone else has to make the binaries they goon over, or build system for them.

GPL is almost always used as a weapon.

FUCK YOU

How about the phone companies stop allowing spoofing of numbers you dont own as already required by law?

Its not even a little bit hard, the infrastructure is in place, SOME phone companies block from numbers not registered to the caller already, but plenty claim exceptions because it'll interrupt legit traffic ...

GOOD.

If you bring your own number and cant prove ownership, fuck off. In the US we already have databases for this that every phone company uses for call routing and number portability between carriers. We KNOW where its anchored, if you arent calling from there, you need to register additionally and this should NOT be done by easy to use APIs that spammed can exploit.

If you legit need to spoof a from number from a different carrier (plenty of legit reasons), it needs to be registered with a 1 month waiting period before allowed and $10/number fee paid before use, monthly.

Watch how quick that shit ends. Call centers can still use different inbound and outbound carriers - but they gotta wait a month and pay for it. That would utterly destroy almost every illegitimate spoof and do basically nothing against legit ones.

And no call center needs large swaths of numbers to fake, so cost us minimal.

I'm honestly curious to know what this perception of yours is based on. Do you work in audio production or a related field? Why do you feel that Logic is "a tool for amateurs", despite the fact that professionals use it?

That's simply not true. It may not be the DAW with the biggest market share, but there are a ton of working professionals (including some rather famous ones) who like the workflow of Logic and use it as their primary DAW.

DACs are a dime a dozen and you aren't able to tell the difference on between whatever silly expensive headphones you use and my $30 pair with a 3.5mm port and good drivers. DACs were a solved problem more than 20 years ago, support circuitry at this point is also a pretty well solved problem for the most part - you have to go out of your way to fuck up a reference design to make it bad enough for your claim to be true.

A mac neo is certainly producing a quality signal that I'd bet a paycheck on that you can not tell the difference with audio equipment to help you, certainly not with your ears. I'm fairly confident you couldn't tell the difference between your choice digital headphones and my $30 3.5mm set.

And my 3.5mm device works all the time, never goes dead - which is pretty much what is constantly the state of wireless devices. Its absolutely silly to think like we're in 1992 and you're arguing a gravis ultrasound vs sb16 DAC.

A 3.5mm port is cheaper and smaller than any other port your are going to use in its place, including USB-C. If your device is so short on real estate place that it can't afford the space for a 3.5mm port - it better be a foldable phone or something that fits in your pocket cause pretty much every laptop has room to spare something like a 3.5mm port

I can tell by your comment that you own lots of monster cables so you get that warm sound out of your digital signal.

Because if it doesn't, its not a rival, its just another PC clone knock off wannabe.

I don't want a neo for the hardware - I want one so my kid can have OSX and not have to deal with half assed operating systems.

Almost no one buys a macbook because of the hardware. Don't get me wrong, its quality stuff - but its not the most cost effective unless you buy immediately after a good hardware refresh, otherwise its over priced and not worth running any other OS on.

People by Macs for OS X.

So Meta == a tobacco company ... rather than a cartel - no wait - cartels do it too, heard of crack cocaine?

Even if that happened, absolutely nothing of consequence would happen to the people that actually did it.

No more fines. No more sanctions against organizations.

Criminal charges, multiple years of very punitive jail time - against the people that ACTUALLY did it - from Zuckerberg right on down to the SRE that deployed the changes. Every single one of them made an active decision to be a complete shitbag and they should be treated as such. I don't really care if the SRE was ignorant or just doing his job - if you don't expect people to put effort into it, they won't - AND ALL OF THEM could have spoke up and done something to stop it. But they didn't. It was easiest FOR THEM to just do what their boss said, and screw everyone else ...

No legal protection of any sort for any of them.

Theres a reason the only people on the planet that speak out against Luigi are CEOs and politicians - not the rest of us who are all basically like 'Yea, that was wrong, murder is never the solution - but he deserved it for being a pile of shit who profited from letting others die with 0 compassion, we aren't really going to punish Luigi'

"It's a possible solution to a problem we have no idea how to fix"... that's accurate, and is probably the most charitable way to describe UBI. Except I would have phrased it as "a farfetched but technically feasible solution".

What you're ultimately talking about is a centrally planned economy... actual communism, in other words. It's an idea that did not make sense in the past but might make sense in some distant and hypothetical Star Trek-like future, where enormous production capacity for all sorts of goods and services is available through AI and through humanoid robots. But it requires a government which is capable of directing that production capacity towards socially useful ends, confiscating a large part of the output, and redistributing that output, all presumably in some democratically determined manner.

To point out a few of the obvious hurdles:
* This sort of central planning is something that has never been successfully achieved in human history. Indeed, it's fair to say that every attempt has failed spectacularly.
* "UBI" as envisioned in TFA would barely scrape the surface of the problem-- they're talking about $12,000 per citizen per year, which is far, far below the current poverty line, and even the current income needed for physical survival. And even that level of "income" would require a doubling of tax revenues.
* The central planning would have to take place on a worldwide scale, not simply a national scale. If we imagine (for the sake of argument) that the US miraculously transitioned to a centrally planned economy, this would provide no long-term stability if the rest of the world is sinking into chaos. The US would simply be inundated by refugees from the other 7 1/2 billion people who are looking for their $12K/year.

Because you are only accessing a 'local' node and the change is applied instantly because you are connected to where the change occurs.

If you VPN to some other geographic location far away in their hierarchy, your account may not be available for some time.

It also may get updated quickly to start with, but then its cached and tge cache will exist for some time until it expires.

The cache could potentially be cleared, but when there are potentially millions of cache locations it could be in, you arent purging them all instantly.

Large distributed systems hide ALL of this from you by alway directing you to the same group/cluster where cache can be managed efficiently without global performance impacts.

You cant delete the evidence but keep the data.

The pictures have to be available to challenge the data. ALPR are wrong A LOT, and people get falsely accused often.

You either keep the data so the defense cand defend itself fairly, or you immediately throw out the license plate data AND ALL DERIVATIVES CAPUTRED AFTER AS A DIRECT OR INDIRECT result. Meaning anyone can claim any data collected after ALPR data was accessed must be thrown out as tainted, since the ALPR data gave you a hint to look further in a specific direction.

...I was rather hoping that the "color-changing car" would offer something beyond shades of gray. (Even "white" or "black" are not really options with e-ink).

E-ink displays are expensive and fragile. I can't imagine any possible use case for this product. Well, there is one: ads.