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by zekevermillion 8y ago
It's problematic to say the least. It beats me why they didn't just make this a more targeted amendment e.g. to a California b-corp statute. Let founders decide if they want to have this restriction in place. I think such a nar
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Is there some way ARM could make money supporting an open IP like RISC-V, analagous to Red Hat for Fedora Linux? Obviously, not a perfect analogy, but...
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
This is an interesting area. I haven't thought much about it. But at a first glance (and please correct me if you are an expert) an investor with a short position has already sold his borrowed shares, with a promise to deliver back
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Yeah, and I believe some of the shorts may have cause to sue (or have already?) directly. But I tend to think the SEC's focus as to damages is not going to be that Elon screwed the shorts. It's going to be that some people bough
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
What I mean is, we are concerned with price manipulation. But the theoretical harm of price manipulation is that some investor has overpaid based on the intentionally misleading $420 tweet. The SEC is not primarily trying to protect Jim C
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
The subtext is that Elon intentionally bumped the stock price to screw over short sellers like Jim Chanos. But the rationale behind 10b5 is to protect investors from fraud. Right, we are not concerned with protecting short-sellers who s
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
China doesn't need the technology per se. China is now an advanced technological country in its own right, even if the fruits of that may still be unevenly distributed -- as, to be fair, they are in the rest of the world as well. The
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
This meshes with the 'hipster antitrust' argument, that the consumer surplus measure is not the whole story. If low prices are so great for us, why is it that small communities are objectively so down-and-out even in the midst o
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Amazon shares have a lot of value, and Bezos is sitting on a pile of them. What should Bezos do with that currency -- hoard it? spend it? This supermoney represents Bezos' capacity to incentivize his fellow humans to act in concert t
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Thank you for this thoughtful response! I have been following your work with interest for awhile. These are all hard questions, and I don't see many people coming up with new ideas here, not to mention implementing them in elegant so
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
This is a better summary of the key issue than any I've read from a lawyer. The root of it is that the copyleft licensing scheme was from the beginning merely a clever hack. Ideally (from a free software perspective) copyright law wou
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Commercial freedom is an important part of the "free" in free software, no? The values you're calling strange are basically the ethics of RMS. Perhaps there is a bit of a martyrdom to RMS' lifestyle, but I would hardly
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
I'm with Kasparov, that the best method of combining human and machine will always beat the best machine or the best human individually. I submit that Google's AI progress does not disprove this assertion, because (a) even if Goo
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Today's US Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v Wayfair eliminates the "physical presence" test for sales tax jurisdiction. [1] Thus your prospective employer's reasoning (at least as far as substantial presence for
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Reminds me of Alan Kay statements regarding 'new ways to kill the geese that lay golden eggs' (previous HN discussion) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16040127
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by zekevermillion 8y ago
Global address service could be namecoin. Message storage / forwarding / encryption could be secure scuttlebutt. Personally I see no reason to make global addressing mandatory -- could be optional for those who want to be globally
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Some types of claims are not waivable by law. But I'm not sure discrimination should be one of them. Your proposal would have the effect of making it impossible to settle such claims in exchange for severance payments on termination of
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Belt and suspenders. There should be an assignment clause -- if not, the agreement is totally defective! The assignment clause is of course the key part. But there are also further assurances, that make it easier for the company to "pr
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
That's not what the language says. The employer claims ownership of inventions conceived during your employment and requires you to disclose them for a period of time after your employment. For example, if there's an invention -
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
The disclosure of prior agreements is to YOUR benefit as the employee / contractor. A lot of employers treat this as sort of a nod nod, wink wink situation, where they know you have prior conflicting agreements and would rather not hea
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
I absolutely agree with you in principle. The language in question does not capture inventions you create on your own time with your own equipment, etc, as a matter of law. Copyright may be somewhat different but would need to view the enti
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
This language is very common in IP assignment agreements (often bundled together with restrictive covenants where enforceable). I don't love noncompetes, but assuming you plan to work in the tech industry with proprietary software o
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
It is a logical fallacy to think of America as in competition with China for "technological hegemony". We are all humans, and should work to share knowledge with each other. It is true that manufacturing has become cheaper to do i
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Then presumably, you are either comfortable with LaTeX or else are capable of asking your publisher to respect your wishes. For writers who are not familiar with publishing tools, I would humbly submit that a markdown language that formats
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
If we care about substance over form, papers should be written in some type of markdown -- leave publishers, or readers even, to impose a format.
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Many of the forms are scraped from EDGAR anyway, so if you really need a standard contract you can usually find an exemplar. Typical startup docs can be had from Series Seed, NVCA, Clerky or one of the many marketing sites like cooleygo. I
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
It was very generous of the founders to arrange to keep Docracy up for this long, even after the business was shelved. I enjoyed seeing the stats on the few docs I had shared on Docracy over the years. The business model was obviously not q
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
Maybe this is just Mark falling victim to his own machine. Now he, too, has become obsessed with social media preening, and has to hire a professional to tell him what people think about his party pics.
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
There are very few lawyers who have any experience dealing with an NSL. Let's see, Marcia Hoffman, and... well, you could always try contacting Marcia Hoffman. This post may be just as helpful, if not moreso, to a lawyer than to a deve
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by zekevermillion 9y ago
OK, but as an individual you are extremely unlikely to receive such a request. You are probably only going to see an NSL if you are working for a company that stores or processes user data. Of course if you're an individual dev, and yo

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