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The problem is using juries for this. Music copyrights should be adjudicated by a panel of professional musicologists, funded by a cut of the awards. That way there’s at least some consistency. The concept would extend to other disciplines.

Of course a purely functional improvement to governance is a political nonstarter in today’s environment.


It was the opinion of a professional musicologist, presented to a jury, that resulted in the lawsuit being successful. At least with a jury there's a chance of calling bullshit, even though it did not occur in this case.


Jury in pretty much any case is a subpar solution. However, patent or copyright ones are total bonkers to be decided by jury panels.

Leaving justice outcome to chance is rather weak way to 'benefit the society'.


A musicologist that was hired by one of the legal teams. If you are paid by one side of the lawsuit you definitely aren't impartial.

Loads of professionals think that this (and similar suits) are not only bogus but dangerous.


Your tone implies that there are rules.


Now any finding of life on the moon is subject to confusion over whether it was actually from this crash.


Yea, well there's also a few dozen bags of astronaut poop on the moon. Might be some bugs in that, too.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/22/18236125/ap...


This is my favorite line of hers:

“How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn’t love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.”


Brex using the company’s credit instead of the founder’s makes it a leveraged but diversified bet on the startup ecosystem as a whole. From a financial engineering perspective it occupies a plum position because diversification in the startup ecosystem is traditionally very hard to achieve for investors who are bullish on tech but don’t want to take a position on whether AR or VR is better.


I mean the obvious answer is Robocop / I, Robot. High frame rate cameras with deep learning algorithms trained from mass shooting footage that control sniper rifles on pan tilt zoom mounts. Someone starts doing something bad, BAM catches a .308 Winchester in their dome.


To some people, what you just described reads no different from Lebron James saying “dunking is as simple as shoving the defender out of the way, jumping above the rim and jamming the ball down into the net.”


That's a fair comment, but I'm certain I don't possess Lebron-like ability when it comes to equity analysis. For me, the moral of the story is that people should go to the source material--contracts, laws, etc.--rather than operate on tribal knowledge. I'm sure some people would find this service useful, but will it be enough to sustain a business? Time will tell.


What is the rough breakdown of applications for all these cubesats and other satellites?



Also curious what the rough breakdown of applicTions is... somehow you have several replies and most about a hamburger menu.

What are satellites even used for these days besides navigation and espionage (limited to a handful of large players, I assume)?


Communications is a huge one. Think satellite TV, telephone, and Internet services.

From the governmental side, another major application is Earth observation, both for science and for weather forecasting.


Lol, this is how 90% of startups with technical risk are funded


I’d love to be the kind of business ignoramus that can create Google.


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