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My "hack" around this is, have a friend that's a lawyer. I lucked out in that we had been friends before. I have answered many development and programming ques

My "hack" around this is, have a friend that's a lawyer. I lucked out in that we had been friends before. I have answered many development and programming questions and issues for them, and they have for me too. To others commenting, I guess it's about having trust in others and using that. We have friends and family that are in CS, accounting, law, medicine, etc. What we don't have, we pay for. Find a good resource and pay them. I guess this goes back to the grandparent post were they talk about access and costs of different lawyers.

noduerme 5y ago
That's the right hack in a lot of cases. Where would we be without friends who know more than we do about these things? But those friends also educate themselves in a lot of fields - and they know what they are or aren't qualified to answer. So if I ask a friend who's a graphics guy about lighting he can help me, but he'll point me to someone better. Or if I ask family members about a specific legal thing, they'll refer me to someone more specialized in a particular form of law. Nothing wrong with that. It's more like: I need to know enough at least to tell whether I'm being bullshitted or not; I trust my friends to know enough to tell me if they can't fully answer my question. But there is nowhere in that chain where knowing more isn't valuable.