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by grellas 13y ago
A word about credibility. It comes from the Latin word credo , meaning "I trust." Its value exceeds that of money because it marks you as a person - as someone who is respected, who is trustworthy, and whom you would want to co
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by grellas 13y ago
A few thoughts: 1. Junk patents abound in today's digital world, where "method" and "computer" have been endlessly linked to suggest that something is innovative when it is not. YogaGlo's patent is a bit differ
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We Pretend to Teach, They Pretend to Learn(online.wsj.com)
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NSA Struggles to Make Sense of Flood of Surveillance Data(online.wsj.com)
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The Late, Great American WASP(online.wsj.com)
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Tech Firms Push to Control Web's Pipes(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
Yes, indeed, heartily concur. "News" is nothing more than a report of events potentially affecting our lives: if a particular report is intelligent, trustworthy, and helpful to our understanding of what we need to do to better our
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by grellas 13y ago
Why was her diary secret? Well, because she wanted it so. And that should be enough. When it comes to information that any given person regards as intimate about oneself, that should always be enough. It doesn't matter that someone els
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by grellas 13y ago
Really nice write-up explaining stock options. A few added thoughts sparked by some of the comments already made in this thread and otherwise: 1. The value of options is inextricably linked to tax and you need to understand the tax basics i
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by grellas 13y ago
(Appending this to my own comment as a way of acknowledging the comments made in response to my question) I stand convinced that, though the majority of people will not be necessarily learn to code in the sense of developing full-fledged pr
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by grellas 13y ago
Speaking as a non-coder, but as one who did minimal things with programming-like higher-level stuff ranging from the old DOS batch files to VBA and some dabbling with SQL, I am curious whether real engineers believe the idea of broad litera
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by grellas 13y ago
I am intrigued by the antipathy that is often expressed toward Airbnb in the very circles where technological changes is heartily approved. Much of this antipathy is centered around the issue of persons who use the service to circumvent loc
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by grellas 13y ago
A few thoughts (apologies up front for the somewhat longish technical aspects of the discussion): 1. YC has once again managed to innovate in fascinating ways that help promote startups. And, it should be said, the legal work behind formula
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by grellas 13y ago
Evil behavior, however precisely defined, has been and always will be with us. Technology enhances what we do as human beings and, hence, always has the potential to be applied to ill uses. If someone, then, takes what you develop and appli
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by grellas 13y ago
While there is a pithy debate going on about Kima and how it fares in an economic comparison to YC, I will throw in my more technical assessment of what founders should consider in deciding whether the sort of up-front equity funding offere
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Online Matchmakers Offer New Way to Find Legal Help(online.wsj.com)
1 points by grellas 13y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 13y ago
I am not a technology expert and I am not a marketing expert but, as a consumer, I have moved gradually over the years from using Amazon primarily for online book-buying to using it extensively for all kinds of retail buying needs. The Prim
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Chess-Championship Results Show Powerful Role of Computers(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
Law in general, and copyright law in particular, may be applied mechanically or it may be applied with insight, and the results can vary widely depending on which approach is used. There is a lot in copyright law that would have allowed a j
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by grellas 13y ago
If your startup lawyer deals straight with you, gives you honest estimates, bills for time actually spent, uses good judgment in managing the legal time spent on your matter, avoids duplicative billing, is willing to deal fairly with situat
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by grellas 13y ago
In law, we are taught, "make it fresh and vivid." Stories do that when they are well told. People relate. It makes an abstraction real to them by bringing their experience into play. It gives them a hook by which to remember an im
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Silicon Valley: Feel the Froth(online.wsj.com)
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Android Who? iPad is Poised to Rule the World(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
Lawyering in general, and business lawyering in particular, is an art in which good judgment counts a lot more than mere technical precision. From a lawyer perspective, a written contract may have all sorts of areas in which it falls short
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by grellas 13y ago
Tax enforcement schemes are conceived, enacted, and executed by governments because they have a monopoly over the taxing power. If private profiteers are allowed to exploit local citizens, it is strictly because the entity holding that powe
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by grellas 13y ago
It is really tragic that we have reached a point where something so wonderful as Groklaw cannot effectively function. Nearly 200 years ago, de Tocqueville asked why the American experiment in self-government succeeded while its French count
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Hackers Called into Civic Duty(online.wsj.com)
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by grellas 13y ago
Many may be unfamiliar with how legal billing practices have evolved over the past years in the U.S. At the risk of boring people, I'll try to sum it up as I understand it. It does have some interesting aspects. In the days when law wa
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Six amicus briefs in Viacom appeal show the Hollywood angle to copyright(groklaw.net)
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SEC Rules Will Clip the Wings of Angel Investors(online.wsj.com)
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