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by grellas 10y ago
There is no more eerie account of what it was like to be a foot soldier caught up in trench warfare than Arthur Guy Empey's book "Over the Top" (1917). It is available free as a Kindle ebook: https://www.amazon.com
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Tesla's Autopilot Flew Under Regulators' Oversight(wsj.com)
5 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
Bad judging all around here. Just because a home computer might be hacked does not mean that an average user doesn't expect his experience on that computer to be private. Every area of life might be breached by determined intruders
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by grellas 10y ago
The repricing is, in effect, a form of settlement agreement with the company's preferred stock investors. What the former CEO did amounted to a form of fraud on the investors. They thought they were investing in a company they thought
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by grellas 10y ago
The points made by ISRG seem well-taken and, if there is a formal fight over this, it should prevail given the facts as it recites them. There is a general lesson here for startups as well. If you have an important mark, do consider doing a
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Tesla Shares Hit Hard After Offer to Buy SolarCity(wsj.com)
3 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
Can code both embody and replace law for the exact function for which it is set up? DAO strives to execute through code an idealized pooled investment system by which contract issues are resolved entirely by code and wholly apart from any e
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by grellas 10y ago
How we got to the point where utility-style regulation is seen as the key to ensuring a free and open internet is a true puzzle. Utility-style regulation gives regulators plenary authority over the internet - meaning full and complete. Thei
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by grellas 10y ago
A few thoughts: 1. The pressure point here was a court ruling declining to stay enforcement of the $140M judgment pending appeal. This left Gawker having to post a $50M bond in order to avoid enforcement proceedings by which its assets coul
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Why It's Time to Take Google's PC Operating System Seriously(wsj.com)
6 points by grellas 10y ago|7 comments
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Peter Thiel's Legal Smackdown(wsj.com)
2 points by grellas 10y ago|1 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
Extremely wealthy people are just like any other group of people in that they come in all shapes and sizes. Here, one very wealthy individual used his money to fund someone else's lawsuit. He did so secretly. He did so against an organ
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Why I Was Wrong About Liberal Arts Majors(blogs.wsj.com)
61 points by grellas 10y ago|80 comments
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San Francisco Park Reservation System Rankles Public(wsj.com)
2 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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Brian Chesky's Home-Sharing Quest(wsj.com)
3 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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Thiel-Gawker Case Divides Silicon Valley(wsj.com)
1 points by grellas 10y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 10y ago
Thanks, I corrected the typo. As to the first round that occurred 4 years ago, the decision was Judge Alsup's. Here is my analysis of that decision at that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050490#up_4051761
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by grellas 10y ago
Law evolves and the law of copyright in particular is ripe for "disruption" - and I say this not as one who opposes the idea of copyright but, on the contrary, as one who strongly supports it. It is right that the author of a crea
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by grellas 11y ago
Good point and would agree - without that one key player, the team does often play pretty much just like every other team. No doubt though that the game is changing from a day where big post-up players dominated to one in which most every t
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How a prominent VC is helping reshape winning strategy for basketball(wsj.com)
5 points by grellas 11y ago|3 comments
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by grellas 11y ago
If Atlas is implemented as promised (probably a safe assumption given the Stripe team), it will afford founders throughout the world a pain-free entry point into the world's most advanced economy, opening the way for key financing, for
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by grellas 11y ago
Actually, apologies for being sloppy on this one (in having dashed this off in just a few minutes) - under tax laws, you can't have an ISO without a 90-day tail. This should therefore read "4) NQO without 90 day tail on terminatio
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by grellas 11y ago
This is generally a nice guide for anyone wanting to get an overview of equity compensation issues affecting startup employees. There is one error I caught, where it says that "restricted" stock is called "restricted" ow
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by grellas 11y ago
I find internet writing to be stimulating in its own way precisely because it is a sort of dash-off writing that does not need to be as precise or exact as would be needed if you were seeking to meet professional standards. To wit, in law,
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Ending Philanthropy as We Know It(wsj.com)
1 points by grellas 11y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 11y ago
The actor has little or nothing to do with these products and seems not to have brought legal action. People are strangely moved to make this stuff and others to purchase it. Every actor/celebrity (indeed, every person in theory) has
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by grellas 11y ago
Writing advice has certainly come full circle. It wasn't that far back that the "simpler is better" approach was de rigueur : "if you can use 'said'," it was said, "don't strain for some artific
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'Use More Expressive Words' Teachers Bark, Beseech, Implore(wsj.com)
2 points by grellas 11y ago|1 comments
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by grellas 11y ago
The bar exam can be a useful screening mechanism for testing a candidate's formal knowledge of any given state's laws and for measuring that candidate's ability to apply such knowledge to hypothetical situations (thus testing
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by grellas 11y ago
U.S. law is primarily based on a combination of judicial, legislative, and constitutional structures that effectively prescribe rules for ordering the formal and prescriptive aspects of society. These structures are spread over three layers

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