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Trademark Application for “Libra”, Facebook’s Cryptocurrency(tmsearch.uspto.gov)
3 points by will_brown 7y ago|1 comments
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by will_brown 7y ago
I responded to a few comments in kind, and I’d say it’s impossible to answer in a vacuum without knowing the actual token use case/function. Generically, we have seen instances where centralized ledgers/databases are manipulated a
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by will_brown 7y ago
Cool, I wonder if the pics are from the same dive. The article you link and the IG post are both NatGeo, and the IG post claims it’s the first photo (though the claim does read weird, “first photo by a diver”).
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by will_brown 7y ago
Like most existing Blockchain projects, maybe no benefit over database to the users...but I don’t think it’s fair to say without knowing the actual use case/function/purpose of the token, so probably have to wait for the release o
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by will_brown 7y ago
Probably have to wait for the whitepaper to come out to give a fair opinion/analysis (rather than an article about the future release of the whitepaper). Once the actual use case/function of the token is know then one could answer
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by will_brown 7y ago
>It also allows for the possibility of selling at discounted rates for volume. $1 for 4 tokens, but $10 gets you 50 instead of 40. I think at the point of discounts of a USD stable coin...a good arguement could be made that is an investm
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First picture of Coelacanth thought extinct 65M years ago(instagram.com)
2 points by will_brown 7y ago|2 comments
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Can anyone explain what the point of a pegged cryptocurrency is? What was the point of arcades taking your quarters and issuing you tokens for the machines? Why not just allow the machines to take your quarters? The idea is for the iss
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by will_brown 7y ago
That was exactly the early thought and why the commonly accepted image of an atom with a nucleous and orbiting electrons looks just like a solar system. Of course that’s not at all what atoms look like or how they behave.
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by will_brown 7y ago
Or both...we can simultaneously exist on some aliens coffee table while they simultaneously exist on your coffee table.
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Birth control has only been available for a short period of history, If you are talking about the pill sure, but there are forms of birth control that date to ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, And China. Not to say these methods were effecti
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by will_brown 7y ago
I have a elementary question about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (my understanding is Quatum Leap/transitions are just a description of the uncertainty principle wave function)... As we know from “flatland” as a sphere passes th
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by will_brown 7y ago
Exhaustive list of cruise ship environmental violations and penalties (although I believe there must be another list of penalties for damages to reefs by cruise lines, because I recall multiple fines in the past for $10’s of millions, a thi
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by will_brown 7y ago
Glad to see this comment as #1 because you cite a study referencing Leaky Gut. Diet, health and nutrition are controversial topics...but last time I brought up the potential for Leaky Gut to be a legitimate health issue I was more or less
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by will_brown 7y ago
Well Cooley’s free SAFT legal framework ended up with startups facing SEC enforcement actions. >I guess you get what you pay for. Then again, Kik, Cooley’s paying client also ended up in an SEC enforcement action (they claim they already
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by will_brown 7y ago
Well it’s throwing good money after bad. I believe it was Einstein who defined insanity as performing the same task over and over and expecting different results. If you invested/bought Kik because you wanted a “position” to make money
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Patrick Gibbs: First your citing the Cooley attorney who advised the company...of course he is going to justify his own legal advice. It’s not going to look good when the court determines Kik knew if could have sought clarification from
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by will_brown 7y ago
If that was the case Kik wouldn’t have spent an alleged $5M unsuccessfully trying to settle this matter. No most people don’t raise a $100M in violation of securities law...or even “testing” security laws, especially when Kik could have obt
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Ethereum also had an ICO (paid in Bitcoin) and it delivered. According to the SEC it was also an illegal offering of a security, and its receiving special treatment bc they considered it to have matured and no longer be considered a sec
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Who even bought this stuff? Doesn't this throw up all the red flags of a scam ICO? What’s amazing is they raise nearly $100M selling the token, spent $5M in legal fees and then began raising additional legal fees (over $5M to date)
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by will_brown 7y ago
>He could unilaterally decide that quarterly profits, hell, any profits, do not matter and there is nothing anyone could do. That’s not entirely accurate, see Henry Ford suspending shareholder dividends, raising employee wages and loweri
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by will_brown 7y ago
It sounds very similar to the subscription radio case cited in the ABA article I linked: >in Knutson v. Sirius XM Radio, 771 F.3d 559 (9th Cir. 2014), the terms regarding an automobile’s trial subscription to a satellite radio service we
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by will_brown 7y ago
It would be interesting to see this legal arguement unfold with FB...I just think the problem is FB unilaterally modifying the terms. In other words FB saying we are going to now start providing you with X services and you are going to give
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Does the facebook of today provide a remotely similar experience to the facebook of 10 years ago? Yes. It could certainly be argued as you say that the services changed - still from a contract Law perspective these are unilateral change
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by will_brown 7y ago
>I think the ship around users accepting privacy policy changes through continued use of a free product has sailed. The following are excerpts from a good article from the American Bar Association: >The existing case law on online mod
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by will_brown 7y ago
>Contracts can be re-negotiated for any legal or even no reason. Yes, they can be renegotiated, they can not be unilaterally changed without additional consideration (except limited circumstances: UCC, sale of goods, etc...). Continuatio
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by will_brown 7y ago
>The price of using Facebook has stayed the same over the years (it’s free to join and use), but the cost of using it, calculated in terms of the amount of data that users now must provide, is an order of magnitude above what it was when
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by will_brown 7y ago
If the taxpayers actually cared about 1M defaulted student loans a year they could elect leaders who will take action. Maybe you vote for a politician who will terminate federally guaranteed student loans. Maybe support one that will provi
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by will_brown 7y ago
I don’t think I argued that government intervention was needed to resolve the problem. However, going back to 7th grade civics our government is split into 3 branches to distribute power and provide checks and balances. In this very instan
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by will_brown 7y ago
No, we are at peak “gut bacteria” science denial. On the other hand study of the microbiome is still in its infancy and looking very promising vis-a-vis human health.

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