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by a3camero 9y ago
The (former) CEO seemed like a tech guy at heart and I think he was the CTO before being promoted. I met him a couple times at hackathons around 2009 and he was definitely not a suit guy. I doubt it was just lip service.
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by a3camero 9y ago
There are very few disputes about authenticity of records. And communication between lawyers is often done on a "without prejudice" basis where it won't be introduced later as evidence. And despite the love of paper, lawyers
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by a3camero 9y ago
Lawyers generally take physical security seriously but rarely give digital security much thought. They're often working on their own (somewhere between 1/4 to 1/2 of lawyers are independent/very small firm in Canada&#x2F
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by a3camero 9y ago
I'm the author of that presentation (and surprised to see it on HN this morning!). What would you add to this or change? I may do a follow-up to it. And if you like the slides, there will be a free video of the actual presentation onli
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by a3camero 10y ago
A search engine for the world's laws: global-regulation.com. It has over 800,000 machine translated laws. Two person company in Toronto. One dev (me). Lots of big universities are clients, currently trying to expand to more corporate c
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by a3camero 10y ago
Cabs also often don't give receipts with HST numbers on them. So presumably they're not reporting the HST they may or may not be collecting too.
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Show HN: Big Data with Purpose: How We Calculated the Fines of 1.55M Laws(global-regulation.com)
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by a3camero 10y ago
Although you can sign up for Bizspark (or if you have a startup: Bizspark Plus) and use quite a bit for free.
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by a3camero 10y ago
Yup. It runs on Microsoft Cognitive Services: https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/09/26/powered-by-m...
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by a3camero 10y ago
My previous comment was a bit harsh on CanLII. They actually do have an API for building some limited types of applications: http://developer.canlii.org/docs . But certainly not the sort of free and open access that a develo
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by a3camero 10y ago
There are many others: http://www.saflii.org/ (Southern African countries) http://www.paclii.org/ (Pacific Island countries)
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by a3camero 10y ago
Cities pass "bylaws" that affect their municipality. In Canada municipalities are more limited in their lawmaking powers than cities in some other countries. Bylaws are hard to lookup and are city-specific.
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by a3camero 10y ago
It is free-ish. It's free to use but there are restrictive licensing terms that prevent anyone from building anything with it: http://www.canlii.org/en/info/terms.html . My blog post on this topic: https:&#x2
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by a3camero 10y ago
You can also create a normalized system that aggregates all of the local systems together. And this also applies to international law (assuming you're talking about treaties) because there's a treaty and then there's the nati
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by a3camero 10y ago
I'm the CTO of Global-Regulation.com which is the search service with the most number of countries (78) and machine translated laws. We are often described by clients as the "Google of laws" but there are huge differences. Ge
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by a3camero 10y ago
WorldLII is great in theory but trying running some searches. The results are not nearly as good as just an aggregation of all the national "LII" systems would be (e.g. CanLii)
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by a3camero 10y ago
To get a high school diploma in Ontario, Canada you need to do 40 hours of community service: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/extra/eng/ppm/124a.html .
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by a3camero 10y ago
Here's another product used by major law firms called "Carpe Diem": https://www.tikit.com/products/large-law-firms/time-recordin...
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by a3camero 10y ago
It's usually taxed when its sold, rather than when the increase in value happens. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax
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by a3camero 10y ago
Here's the main T2 form: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2/README.html If you're annoyed about the cost now, wait till you find out about major firms outsourcing work to India and elsewhere
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by a3camero 10y ago
If you're just starting off you probably don't want to deal with the hassle of dealing with the US and Canadian government. Cross-border tax issues are expensive to deal with and complicated. Many Canadian businesses sell to the U
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by a3camero 10y ago
Often corporations distribute to shareholders using dividends. There's a dividend tax credit that offsets the corporate tax income (more or less). More broadly, there's a principle in Canadian tax called "integration" wh
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by a3camero 10y ago
Canadian lawyer and entrepreneur here. The Canadian equivalent is a Federal corporation ($200 filing fee + $20/yr). The government's online step-by-step system does most of the work for you, but doesn't touch the share issuan
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by a3camero 10y ago
You may want to come check out Toronto before moving here. A great event to see what the City's tech scene is like is HackerNest. It's once a month. You could probably also line up some interviews for your trip.
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by a3camero 10y ago
My wife is a non-Western immigrant (English is her third language). She says she's never faced any discrimination and many people assumes she was born here (in Toronto). Non-white people are very common and very accepted in Toronto.
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by a3camero 10y ago
That depends on where you live. The weather in Toronto is similar to Chicago and New York.
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by a3camero 10y ago
In the first three years of the program only 100 visas were issued: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/start-up-program-disap...
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by a3camero 10y ago
That's a pretty good idea. I've had a few people ask over the years how it's done, and I uploaded the original source code a few years ago. Although I could probably fix up the site faster than I could properly move it over t
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by a3camero 10y ago
insidertrades.org. I won Yahoo!'s international student programming competition in 2009 with this site. About a year ago it stopped working because of deprecated PHP functions. It had/has quite a few users but I've been too b
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by a3camero 10y ago
This case was actually about whether or not it was legal. It was a mixed decision (seen as being in favour of GlaxoSmithKline) that settled confidentially after the Supreme Court case: http://business.financialpost.com/lega

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