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by hkhanna 10y ago
Certainly. As I mentioned above, Microsoft forms a shell company ("Merger Sub") which is the entity that actually merges with and into LinkedIn. When Microsoft forms the shell company, it actually incorporates a new company, usual
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by hkhanna 10y ago
M&A lawyer here. Two companies merging into a new third company is called a "consolidation" rather than a merger and its not very common, especially when public companies are involved. A "merger" is when one company
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by hkhanna 10y ago
M&A lawyer here. Yes, in a public company acquisition, a vote of the shareholders of the acquired company is typically required. Part of the required disclosure to those shareholders before the vote is the "Background of the Merger
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by hkhanna 11y ago
Will YC be publishing a copy of the convertible equity instrument? If not, can you tell us if it expected to be a SAFE, or will it take the form of a convertible note?
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by hkhanna 11y ago
I agree with this sentiment. Finding a problem to solve is part of why I became a lawyer, and, now that I'm practicing, I am fortunate to be discovering new challenges every day. Some of the challenges may be addressable with software
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by hkhanna 11y ago
Automated Portion: Every morning at 7:30am, a cron job runs to rsync my main computer's /home directory to my NAS that is sitting in a closet. The NAS has two drives that are mirrored to guard against hard drive failure. Every Sat
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by hkhanna 11y ago
Do you know if there is any trend towards Delaware-incorporated startups including the "blank check preferred" provisions in their charter (DGCL Section 151). This would allow the Board to create new preferred shares by resolution
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by hkhanna 13y ago
I lived there this summer for a couple weeks, and I really enjoyed it, although I don't think I ever heard anyone refer to it as a "hacker house" (perhaps they rebranded?). When I was there, it seemed like the manager lived t
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by hkhanna 13y ago
I would use it. I don't like going to furniture places and trying to figure out what I want, so your website appeals to me. In fact, if this is still around in a few months when I furnish my apartment, I will use this.
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by hkhanna 13y ago
>I do suspect binary logging isn't the only reason hkhanna dumped Arch for Debian. It smells of nitpickery to me You are right, of course. Binary logging was not the only reason I ultimately switched. The big reason was that I neede
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by hkhanna 13y ago
The parent comment captures why systemd makes me uneasy, and why I moved from Arch to Debian when I noticed Arch had replaced init with systemd. The Art of Unix Programming (the book) suggests that software should do one thing and do it wel
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by hkhanna 13y ago
The highest paid lawyer that I have ever met bills $1600/hr. Ted Olson is a famous former Solicitor General. He argued Bush v. Gore and the recent Proposition 8 case. He now works for a major national law firm in their DC office. Kind
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by hkhanna 13y ago
Yes, I think so. The reason I use Namecheap for all my domains is really because of their DNS services. For example, I have a subdomain that points to my home network router. The public-facing IP address of my home network is dynamically as
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by hkhanna 13y ago
This seems too good to be true. I tried researching it, and apparently there is nothing on the internet at all about this company. Can anyone confirm that this is legitimate?
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by hkhanna 13y ago
I tried i3wm, and I really wanted to like it. It's got the simplest configuration I've seen in a tiling window manager and it seemed very low maintenance. Unfortunately, it's got some bugs, at least in the version packaged wi
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by hkhanna 13y ago
It occurs in the federal court system as well. Fed. R. Civ. P. 68(d) Paying Costs After an Unaccepted Offer. If the judgment that the offeree finally obtains is not more favorable than the unaccepted offer, the offeree must pay
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by hkhanna 13y ago
> FISC judges issue warrants which can be overturned by federal courts. The FISC isn't "supreme" and is in fact subject to the judgements of SCOTUS. I admit this thought crossed my mind as well when I read the article. But
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by hkhanna 13y ago
This man's writing is such a pleasure to read.
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by hkhanna 13y ago
In your hypothetical, yes, the Supreme Court can do nothing to stop this law until one of the (many) people harmed by this law brings suit in federal court. You're right, it is a bit awkward. And I'm sure we could debate the merit
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by hkhanna 13y ago
> And the Executive Branch may request an opinion regarding legality of a law from the US Supreme Court? Correct? Not directly, no. Article III of the US Constitution only authorizes the federal courts to hear "cases and controversi
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by hkhanna 14y ago
Since the President has said he would veto it, most people don't think it will even pass the Senate. People are saving up their 'capital' (e.g. blacking out their websites) for when there is a real danger of something like this becoming law
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by hkhanna 14y ago
I like your app. Big fan of the 'timed' time-wasters! Great for short breaks. Thanks for introducing me to it!
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by hkhanna 14y ago
Seconding the desire to integrate with Quickbooks. Glad to hear it's in the works. Our small business has been with ZenPayroll since the beginning of the year and we love it. Very easy to use, and we're hoping to add more employees in the n
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by hkhanna 14y ago
Fantastic. This might be the first newsletter I have ever actually opted-in to.
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by hkhanna 14y ago
He did run it by a lawyer; he is a lawyer. A law professor, in fact, at Columbia. And he teaches 1L Criminal Law and one of the topics in that class is the "rule of lenity." Professor Wu's suggestion that the Administration rely on the rule
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by hkhanna 14y ago
> Example, I would always advise against a "single member" LLC because an LLC is considered a Partnership, thus Courts will not enforce Partnership protection where there are no Partners (ie, single member) and the LLC can be liable for
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by hkhanna 14y ago
This post made me emotional about his death. I really hope people read this to understand what a wonderful person Aaron was.
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by hkhanna 14y ago
Excellent write-up, thank you for sharing.
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by hkhanna 14y ago
One person's troll may be another person's market-maker. For a contrary view to the idea of patent trolls, check out this paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1534282

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