zekevermillion

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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Hey Greg. Securities law is an area where a lot of lawyers have limited focus. A typical startup lawyer (such as myself, before retiring) may be knowledgeable about common exemptions for private offerings but less so when it comes to the
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
At least even if I'm wrong, it will never harm anyone to learn more about their business!
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Lawyers do not learn anything about the practice of startup law in law school, with a few exceptions where there are good clinical programs as at Brooklyn Law for example. Are you building a business around your product or just a product?
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
The article supports a common fallacy that clients just have to understand enough to police their service-providers. I would suggest that if you consider yourself to be a startup founder, you should know MORE THAN your lawyer about your pa
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Google Talk was better. I used that for business purposes, but once they migrated everyone to hangouts the quality -- latency, sound, etc, dropped a lot, at least as experienced by me. I have to agree with you it must be internal politics.
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
That is a cool idea. That way you can save your flowers more easily. We had a nice floral bouquet, but I'll tell you 6 years later that the ones we saved show the effects of age!
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
I don't use FB for aesthetic reasons not moral / ethical. But to extend this question, do we have a duty to stop using NYT b/c they use advertising that violates user privacy? To avoid watching Roman Polanski movies? Or the
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
The alternate argument is that anyone in the US is "subject to the jurisdiction" of the US unless somehow immune, eg, a diplomat. I don't see it as very likely that federal courts today would agree with your argument. Never
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
I think you'll be surprised at how independent the SCOTUS is. Life appointment. It is always surprising that despite politics and personal flair (thinking Scalia here) the top judges agree on 99.9% of the law. It is only the hard ca
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
They never do. I think the attitude of a lot of pols is "we can pass the laws, let the courts decide if they are constitutional". But if you know for a fact that a law is not constitutional, I don't see how you square that
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
This has zero chance of passing the most trivial legal challenge. Plain reading of 14th Amendment grants citizenship to those born in the US. And for good reason. This is really the heart of equal protection. Do we want a country where t
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
People are talking past each other here b/c we can't decide if we're concerned primarily with the ethics of software freedom, or just with confusion of Open Source (TM) labeling. This discussion says to me that maybe RMS was
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Well, google scholar certainly does not have all published opinions, far from it. It is not an adequate research tool, just a starting point. I'm not familiar with casemine, will check it out. EDIT: casemine appears to be neither fr
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
I'm not aware of a free alternative for all US published caselaw. Could you cite?
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
There is a confluence of political and economic factors at play, I suspect. Yes there are siting logistics, water supply, electric, labor pool, etc. But also: You don't go to Madison or to downtown Milwaukee to find potential Republ
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Very cool! I remember circa 2007 using some awful service for S-1 queries at a law firm, I think we paid like $250 per search. The same data was available for free, but this service presented it in slightly more readable form. Given our
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
I found RMS very persuasive. He influenced me to change my approach to personal computing for which I am very thankful. That he lives consistently with his ethical conclusions is part of what persuaded me that I should consider what he sa
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
I prefer reading written interviews with RMS. Live interviewers never seem to be able to stop themselves from interrupting him, and he needs more than soundbite-length to make his points.
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Whoever wrote these guidelines doesn't even understand Earth economics, let alone interplanetary economics.
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
The key diff between a lawyer and a knowledgeable lay person is the nature of the duty owed by each. There is no reason that a normal literate person can't become an expert in a given legal topic, given similar levels of exposure and
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Law firms are famously late, but enthusiastic adopters of technology. Usually after all their clients are using it. For example the old blackberry -- law firms in New York were about a year behind, but once they tried it, they fell in lov
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
There's a wave of full-reserve stablecoins with more careful regulatory strategies in the pipes. For example, Sila. * If you need programmable money, and also want access to US mainstream, then I think this is increasingly going to b
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
We don't need a "crackdown". The problem with our approach to financial crimes is that it is based almost entirely on crackdowns -- splashy press releases that are supposed to deter all the thousands of other financial crime
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Oh, that's a good one!
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
In general, restrictive covenants are enforceable in New York to the extent that they protect the employer's "legitimate business interests". The leading case in NY last time I checked, a few years ago, was BDO Seidman, if y
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Yes, I'm sure you are correct. Saying a country is a "friend" is a poor metaphor, in the world of realpolitik. But Varoufakis certainly appeared to view China as a helpful partner, whatever state interests were advanced on
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
I highly recommend Yannis Varoufakis' books, especially Adults in the Room. Varoufakis was the Syriza finance minister who resigned when Tsipras caved to Eurogroup pressure to accept another "extend-and-pretend" bailout (as
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Unfortunately your notion of the SEC as neutral referee for a fair market is not reality. The SEC lacks the resources to enforce the law consistently even within a narrow mandate. Its approach is to target specific violators as a deterran
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
There was no "tone" intended. I was making a falsifiable prediction that the SEC would not penalize Musk or Tesla based on the harm suffered by short-sellers, but rather based on the harm suffered by purchasers of Tesla stock who
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Pittsburgh seems to have inexplicably affordable housing -- a lot of it classy old steel-era buildings. And also CMU is there, so the intellectual resources stack up well against any other city. If you're looking for more of an advent

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