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.
“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.”
Bingo. I was on the kind of career trajectory for a million dollar salary. The most famous school, name brand employers, etc. But when we had a kid I fell in love and I wanted to spend tons of time with him. It’s my wife who had to be OK with moving out of the Bay Area, cutting our expenses, while I transitioned to a job where I basically work 5 hours a day and make less than $200K. Most wives would have said no fucking way. We are going to have more kids and I may even go full stay at home dad.
I think Zuckerberg is still too idealistic and thinks that Facebook should get “credit.” He needs to start thinking of Facebook more of a holding company like Philip Morris which does all the unethical stuff and takes the fall for it, allowing the consumer brands like Instagram and WhatsApp to remain unscathed.
What moral authority does the US have to intervene here? (Not saying that the US needs that to intervene, of course). The US has beauty pageants where 5 year old girls are put in hooker makeup and dance provocatively on stage, where companies market pants that say Juicy on the ass to 9 year old girls, where my 8 year old niece was complaining that her legs were fat...
Can you actually assert with confidence that a Martian visiting Earth would find the US to be a better place for women than Saudi Arabia?
Of course a purely functional improvement to governance is a political nonstarter in today’s environment.