The environmental impact is probably overstated. Chrome uses P2P to distribute updates, which can dramatically reduce the amount of data sent over the wire.

You might as well ask why websites use one MariaDB password to secure all their customers.

Not necessarily true. You might have backups that will take a week to rollback to. It may be worth it for your organization to just pay and avoid the lost revenue and potential loss of trust.

There's a good chance a system from that era would just look at the first N characters of the password.

I bet almost everyone had their passwords written down somewhere.

Password hashing complexity for the sake of slow processing has been industry standard for a generation. Nobody seems to have any trouble mitigating DOS attacks. It's usually enough to rate limit by IP.

Or they are simply talking about splitting the year into two: the time up to this date, and the time after this date. In colloquial speech, that is two halves.

The projection for the year is likely made based on declining sales. The latter half of the year isn't expected to do as well as the former.

It has not been focused on complete authorship, but on the traditional basis of transformation. If an "AI" generated an image that you then crop and colorize, the "AI" has not completely authored the work, but your alterations have also likely not met the threshold of transformation to claim it as your own.

Richard Dawkins is likely biases by his career in speaking better than those around him. He has elevated language to a holy place in his heart and can't recognize that one of his favorite characteristics about himself are not in fact a sign of his own intelligence.

Not necessarily true. Pattern day traders are forced to mark to market.

Learning new things also creates anatomical brain changes. That's what neuroplasticity is. You do you, but I think you may be getting hung up on the language used.

The way you describe it isn't really how it works. It doesn't rewire your brain in an active sense so much as introduce elasticity for your brain to rewire itself. This is especially useful when the brain has gotten itself into a doom loop of depression or anxiety. The psilocybin allows you to break out of the doom loop and start your brain on the path of healthy development.

Yeah, I'm guessing it's a pretty draconian license just to be sure no one finds any corner cases. They will probably approve any reasonable commercial use.

My working theory of dreams (which as far as I know has not been rejected by experiment), is that the images and such experienced while dreaming is essentially a form of static being produced by the deeper processes in place to lock-in memories. Because consciousness has turned off, my guess is little electro-chemical pulses are fired off by the memory processes to surrounding regions, which - when they hit your various sections for aural and visual processing - are made sense of as dreaming. This may even be an intentional process of probing those parts of the brain to generate a feedback or to reinforce some neurons.

Citation greatly needed.