dnjdrbdhdbs (u/dnjdrbdhdbs)

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on Katy Perry's Dark Horse Lawsuit Makes Waves in Music Industry cbc.ca/news/entertainment... · Posted by u/aaronarduino

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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.

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on Police arrest student leader over laser pointers in Hong Kong news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp... · Posted by u/isaaafc

latch · 6 years ago

Thought I'd agree with this, but they were found in his bag. Doesn't sound like he used them and there's no mention of whether or not they're of an illegal class (assuming some are illegal in HK).

Another article (1) quotes the Chief Inspector as saying: "If anyone uses such an object to attack a person, it could also be deemed an offensive weapon" but no mention of such an attack in this specific case.

Can anyone supplement my (long-ago) grade 11 law class: is mens rea alone isn't enough to be convicted of a crime?

(1) https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

Your tone implies that there are rules.

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on Tardigrades are now on the moon thanks to a crashed Israeli spacecraft? cnet.com/news/tardigrades... · Posted by u/gilad

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on Toni Morrison Has Died wsj.com/articles/nobel-la... · Posted by u/mises

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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.”

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups nytimes.com/2019/08/02/te... · Posted by u/SREinSF

nlh · 6 years ago

I will say, for what it’s worth, that the customer experience of using Brex is really quite outstanding (my current startup is a customer.)

They’ve figured out things that in hindsight just seem so obvious to a good UX, and yet we’ve all been so trained to have low expectations from the mediocre service traditional banks/corporate card providers offer that it seems outstanding.

From limited experience - the fact that virtual cards are first-party citizens, the helpful text messages you get (which include a warning the first time you use a card physically, instant text records when you use a card physically, the ability to photograph receipts and send them back to that same text phone #, and and and.)

American Express (my only other corporate card comparison) of course _could_ offer this stuff, but it’s just not in their DNA because, well, they haven’t had to innovate because they had what amounts to a monopoly on corporate spending cards. And I should note - Amex ties the credit on those cards to the founder (requiring a personal guarantee until the company reaches a certain - large - size.)

Anyway, this is all to say I’m a fan and it doesn’t surprise me they’ve having the success they are so far. Let’s hope they can do it profitably and keep it up!

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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.

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on Ask HN: Tech crowd – What are your ideas for solving gun violence using tech? · Posted by u/Cshelton

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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.

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on Launch HN: Compound (YC S19) – helping employees understand equity compensation · Posted by u/jrdngonen

kalbfled · 6 years ago

This pitch reminds me of those commercials for weed whackers where people are shown acting like replacing the string is on the level of rocket science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p22T3ZypQtA

After I left my last job, I had 3 months to decide if I wanted to exercise my options. I looked at the company's financial statements, compared them to publicly traded competitors, and made my decision. If I needed tax information, I would have gone to the IRS website and called them if necessary. (In my experience, they try to be helpful despite the hate they receive.)

I wish you guys the best of luck, but ultimately your revenue model seems predicated on the same strategy as the rest of the financial industry--presenting a good marketing story to attract other people's money. Nobody has a crystal ball.

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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.”

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program spacex.com/smallsat... · Posted by u/mulcahey

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on AR will be startup dominated, VR will not reactionwheel.net/2016/07... · Posted by u/allenleein

bitL · 6 years ago

No, this was a SF Bay experience.

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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

dnjdrbdhdbs commented on Sergey Brin’s Resume (1996) infolab.stanford.edu/~ser... · Posted by u/eniz

dnjdrbdhdbs · 6 years ago

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