The piracy community was unblocked quite soon after

They would probably have issues with publishers if you actually owned the titles.

It’d probably make them very heavily liable if for some reason Steam shut down, they had to make something unavailable for some reason, whatever.

They do, unfortunately

Why bother with simulations of governance systems and not governance itself at that point?

I do understand “the risk” of putting AI being the steering wheel but if you’re already going to be trusting it this far, the last step probably doesn’t actually matter.

Consider the alternative

Source for the revenue? Was only able to find figures in the $50-70bil range.

Profit $20-30bil.

Do you understand the case enough to make a more accurate judgement based on the relevant laws? I don’t, but believe that the court does.

Well articulated, good job

Then you’d be wrong

It’s open, so no licensing.

Also, compression-wise, it’s either equal or better from what I’ve seen

Nice thing is, you don’t have to. It’ll still patch the apk for you, it just won’t install it (having root allows it to overwrite the current app, allowing you to keep your data)

You either pay or you leave. Spotify wins, in both cases

But we’re not talking about the nature of the system here, we’re talking about this specific instance.

And I don’t agree they’d necessarily do it internally, sometimes talent is the biggest blocker, not money. They can contract out a team of highly qualified engineers from NASA for a project here and there, when they need it. Hiring people is extremely expensive and having those people do nothing between projects is even more so.

The fact that it’s not profitable overall doesn’t mean there can never be any profit from anything.

How would you know? It hasn’t been sold yet.

Yeah but that was decades ago.

Without the boom, these planes can fly possibly more profitable routes, for example, drawing parallels is hard with such a time-distance

Huh? What kinda question is that?

Hm, might make sense to make a suggestion to the Commission, think it’s a good idea.

If you flew above treetops, you’d consume considerably more fuel because of air friction.

By investing into research of this airplane, the bulk of the costs are going to be manhours.

How is paying engineers going to cause brain drain?

People fly first class, people fly businees class. Some have the money.

Also, for some, the time saved is worth much more than what the ticket costs, especially in business (expensive consultants?).

why is NASA doing this with tax dollars

The resulting aircraft/technology can be sold to commercial aviation and/or be used for military purposes

something obvious

NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration, so it’s kinda in scope