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by mark212 8y ago
which seems precisely why Acton donated $50 million to the Signal Foundation and is taking an active role in a parallel for-profit entity.
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by mark212 8y ago
don't know about you, but I'm hoping they didn't .
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by mark212 8y ago
I'm no JS expert by any stretch but it seems pretty simple to add in code for that here. It'd be a chore to hard-code a big portfolio or one that trades frequently, though.
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by mark212 8y ago
None of those are actually alleged in the complaint. Price gouging is only rarely a crime and in most definitions involves taking advantage of things like natural disasters. Charging what the market will bear isn’t the same thing at all. An
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by mark212 8y ago
it's that middle bit that seems to cause all the consternation: "Save enough that work is optional". It also could be (and I don't mean to sound like an old grump or condescend so apologies in advance) that people in the
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by mark212 8y ago
Maybe financially, but in the long run the best thing that he/she learned was that spending money doesn't lead to increased happiness. Stated differently, the same level of happiness can be reached at far lower financial cost. Eve
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by mark212 8y ago
That is not true. I speak from personal experience of less than a year ago, with a gigantic international bank.
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by mark212 8y ago
If you’re the sole employee, you’re almost certainly going to be sued personally if the LLC gets into trouble. So all of your assets are going to be at risk.
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by mark212 8y ago
I marvel at your “just” in relation to a motion to dismiss. Having practiced as a lawyer for 24 years, I’ve never found that opposing or filing an MTD to be trivial or routine.
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by mark212 8y ago
Not to quibble with you, but I don’t recall seeing a requirement for having an operating agreement separate from the certificate of formation in the Uniform Act or anywhere else. As far as piercing the corporate veil, that’s a matter of sta
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by mark212 8y ago
I did it less than a year ago with a Florida LLC. Walked into a California branch of a very large international bank and walked out twenty minutes later with a temporary ATM card and checks.
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by mark212 8y ago
I have another: several federal courts require hard copies of all filings delivered to chambers by noon the day after. All filing is electronic already, been that way for nearly 20 years, which means everything is a pdf upload. But getting
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by mark212 9y ago
This right here. Office in California, business assets in California, etc will trigger the tax on profits generated from those assets. Shipping goods to California doesn’t.
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by mark212 9y ago
If you’re not profitable, then the minimum fees matter. If you are turning a profit and you’re living in California and working from home (and assuming you have no employees) then there’s no real reason to incorporate in Delaware. The franc
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by mark212 9y ago
Have you ever used it? Complete POS compared to Florida and South Dakota’s vastly superior web apps.
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by mark212 9y ago
Right but using the example there aren’t any profits to tax, so his friend would’ve saved several thousand dollars by having the entity registered in another state with a lower minimum. Florida, for example, is less than half of Delaware an
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by mark212 9y ago
Not quite that simple but you’re right that if you can be physically present outside the state and do business for California clients then you’re probably not going to pay the franchise tax. But no state allows you to register any entity fo
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by mark212 9y ago
Delaware is 5x South Dakota for exactly the same thing, just to exist. At a certain level of receipts it doesn’t matter and the tax rate is more important, or what the corporate law structure is like. But yeah, there’s really no valid reaso
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by mark212 9y ago
Yep. The limitation though is that a foreign entity only has to pay the tax on its California receipts. So if 10% of your $1 million annual profits are derived from California, you pay the 1.5% (min $800) on that $100,000 and not the whole
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by mark212 9y ago
Depends on a lot of things, including where that LLC has its principal place of business, whether it owns property in a California, where its employees perform their duties, etc. Talk to a CPA or better yet a tax attorney with California ex
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by mark212 9y ago
And you can form an LLC in South Dakota (annual fee: $50) in about as much time. Florida is also good, well designed web app and it’s all laid out nicely, but the annual is $138 if I remember right.
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by mark212 9y ago
I'm white and Jewish and get hassled by security going in and out of Israel, every single time. Seriously. American passport and multiple trips in and out of the country. All I can say is that the initial screening is done mostly by yo
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by mark212 9y ago
it pencils out if you go from a duplex to a five or eight story 40 unit condo.
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by mark212 9y ago
That was my reaction. Here in California you’d have to be a several time repeat offender and take something of significant value (like $4,000 +) to get prison time.
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by mark212 9y ago
I have a dream where someone writes a processor that will allow the writer to bang out some Markdown-ish plaintext and turn it into a p&a with automatically generated Table of Contents, Table of Authorities, caption, and pleading paper.
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by mark212 9y ago
Liberal use of the “hide” button. If the headline doesn’t grab me (or I know it’s a topic I find tedious) click hide and it disappears. Come back to the page later in the day and see what’s fresh, repeat. There’s enough great stuff that I w
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by mark212 9y ago
The feature I use most is "hide." Because most of the news stories aren't interesting to me, and it really bugs me that it's not in the same position on the second line. Would love to have it be flush left on that line s
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by mark212 9y ago
It also seems like that particular cancer mutation is permanently targeted, but yes it’s not like this shot will be given to four year olds as a general prophylactic
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by mark212 9y ago
My wife and I are about one year ahead of you with the same diagnosis, currently fighting a recurrence. Keep fighting, stay positive. (And yes the science is astounding and rapidly developing.)
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by mark212 9y ago
2700 Years is nothing. At my synagogue in Southern California we have a couple dozen Kohens, a title in continuous use (with varying and evolving responsibilities to be sure) for at least 4000 years.

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