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by anamax 5y ago
The folks involved in these activities are often dealing in other banned substances, so it's not obvious that banning actually reduces. "but guns are different than drugs". Yes, guns are durable. I don't know how long
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by anamax 5y ago
Note that you don't need partnerships with exchanges to do this. You just need API documentation. You're just providing software and possibly running (that is, arranging to run said software on some cloud service) software for pe
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by anamax 5y ago
Why are you doing KYC? Yes - you're doing KYC because you're holding your customer's money. Don't do that. Instead, figure out a way to provide trading services using your customer's accounts at existing exchanges
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by anamax 5y ago
Type systems are great for catching representation errors. However, the important errors that I make are "kind" errors. Type systems can verify that you're adding two ints, but won't tell you when you add the number of b
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by anamax 5y ago
Bi-weekly payments isn't much different from making one extra payment each year, either by double-paying one month or paying 1/12 extra each month. I've had more than my share of mortgages and every one of them has had the eq
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by anamax 5y ago
Govt incompetence is a reality. You can argue that govt need not be incompetent, but it's foolish to act as if the US govt is competent until it actually is competent. That's true regardless of how good things could be if the US g
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by anamax 5y ago
Different backgrounds does not imply different viewpoints. Different viewpoints does not imply different backgrounds.
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by anamax 5y ago
Wanting to be landed gentry is not hypocrisy. ("want to be landed gentry" is your interpretation, but I'll stipulate it for the purposes of this response.) Note that a significant fraction, probably even a majority, of the 1
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by anamax 5y ago
Potential investors aren't shown trade secrets because anything that you show without an NDA ceases to be a trade secret. "No NDA" disclosure can also block patent protection. There's a huge difference between pitching
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by anamax 5y ago
Series A isn't "early" these days and 10k options reflects that. (100k is only 1% given 10M authorized, 10M being reasonably common for initial authorization and 1% being around market for an early engineer.) That said, the
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by anamax 5y ago
If it's early, you should 83(b) the options. That eliminates the "tax at exercise" problem and starts the long-term holding clock. Yes, you have to come up with the cash to buy the stock at 83(b) time, but if it's early
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by anamax 5y ago
> And most companies were happy to let me view their latest round's pitch deck, after signing an NDA. If potential investors are seeing that deck without an NDA, why should you sign one?
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by anamax 5y ago
> They just need to admit Why do they "need" to do anything? > they won't acknowledge the hypocrisy While I'm perfectly happy to criticize "progressive communities", there's nothing hypocritical abou
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by anamax 5y ago
You should talk with the folks at https://eridan.io/product/ . They're shipping[1] 16384 QAM and their scheme is a much more power and bandwidth efficient than a linear amplifier. (In addition to the coding effic
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by anamax 5y ago
There's no difference between 'a law that says "this is illegal" but the authorities have no interest in actually pursuing' and 'a law that says "this is illegal" but the authorities have no interest
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by anamax 5y ago
Note that we're assuming the existence of a brokerage. When I sell you BTC, how do you report my gain? When I buy pizza with BTC, how does the pizza place report my gain?
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by anamax 5y ago
If you don't like what the die says, ignore it.
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by anamax 5y ago
I see the "{place} should be affordable for anyone who wants to live in {place}" folks are out again. I'm pretty sure that there are at least 100k, if not 10M, people who'd like to live in Yosemite Valley. Should they b
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by anamax 5y ago
How does FedGov know why I gave you a $600 check?
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by anamax 5y ago
How does Binance know the basis of bitcoin that I transfer in? Heck - how does Schwab know the basis of Disney stock that I bring in? How does either one know when I acquired said assets?
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by anamax 5y ago
To be fair, the FedGov doesn't know all of the transactions that you do that affect your income. At best, it knows what a legal employer paid you. FedGov doesn't know the basis of your stock (or crypto) transactions so even if it
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by anamax 5y ago
If you're only going to use multiplication going forward (no adds), I wonder whether interpreting the output as an exponent will pass enough tests.
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by anamax 5y ago
> This is all whataboutism. "whataboutism" is about equal protection under the law.
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by anamax 5y ago
That "stated position" is not a legal defense.
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by anamax 5y ago
https://www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/blog/2018/09/07/ban... and https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-252B-6265 see also https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.
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by anamax 5y ago
> AFAIK you cannot be sent to prison for not paying property taxes in the USA. However, you can lose your property if you don't pay property taxes. (If you're late, the interest can be significant AND it gets treated like prop
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by anamax 5y ago
The feds have been pressuring financial services companies to "de-platform" legal businesses, including those in the adult industry, for years. The govt's pretext has been "reputational risk." Isn't it nice of
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by anamax 5y ago
Competent legal advice requires knowing both the relevant law and the relevant details. Some of the relevant details were missing and HN's readers aren't known for their legal knowledge, especially of "not EU or the US"
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by anamax 5y ago
What are the odds that FedNow will service the adult industry?
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by anamax 5y ago
Why are you posting on HN instead of talking to a local lawyer? I suspect that the company doesn't actually exist. If so, start a real company using stuff that you own without him. However, talk to a local lawyer.

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