hobbyjogger

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by hobbyjogger 1y ago
This vastly oversimplifies the notion of what is "good" or "fair" in a given situation. Just because we can generally agree on classifying simple objects like a boat or a house doesn't entail that we share a univers
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by hobbyjogger 4y ago
Agreed 100%. Essentially no employees (and nearly no founders outside of your unicorns) have anti-dilution protections against future investment.
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by hobbyjogger 4y ago
Essentially explained by the timing of Git adopting this policy (and actually having a trademark to enforce): https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...
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by hobbyjogger 4y ago
Sort of the opposite. The point I'm making (and the author misses) is that a business decision to make huge profits by representing a "bad guy" in society's eyes isn't remotely equivalent to a moral decision that ev
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by hobbyjogger 4y ago
Agreed with ss108. Sure, there are a few law schools (among other higher education institutions) that have overreacted to "wokeness." But that plus a few anonymous accounts from (mostly junior) practicing attorneys doesn't at
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by hobbyjogger 4y ago
I don't at all disagree that Weinstein has as much of a right to effective legal counsel as the rest of us. I'm just pointing out the obvious: there's an enormous difference between (i) an indigent defendant's right to a
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by hobbyjogger 4y ago
Same here (M&A/VC lawyer for nearly a decade). Agree 100% on all of the above. I became skeptical right off the bat when she compared Boies' civil representation of Weinstein (at ostensibly $2,000+ per hour) to the defense att
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by hobbyjogger 5y ago
Not affiliated but this AR tech seems promising: https://carear.com/
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by hobbyjogger 5y ago
Delaware (and all or at least most other states) requires at least one member on the board of directors for any corporation, whether it's private or public.
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by hobbyjogger 5y ago
At a $0 valuation (assuming that's accurate) you'd be paying almost nothing to participate in the round (assuming you had a contractual right or were given the opportunity to participate).
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by hobbyjogger 5y ago
It's much more sophisticated than just (a) do you or did you work there and (b) did you make money on a trade. I work at a law firm that does public M&A deals and we occasionally get inquiries from the SEC about, e.g., people that
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by hobbyjogger 5y ago
> Even if there is some legislation that goes beyond that structure (honestly interested in seeing a few cases) It's extremely rare, approaching nonexistent, for laws to have a precise, deterministic meaning because the vast majorit
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by hobbyjogger 5y ago
That line in the summary is a bit misleading. The authors didn't find a "bug" in any law - instead they found a corner case that wasn't coverred by an online tool hosted by the French government to estimate family benefi
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by hobbyjogger 5y ago
My uncle sometimes puts his shoes on the wrong feet and once managed to put his jeans on backwards (buttoned but not zipped behind him). As he walked past the doorway my mom (his sister) said, "Your pants are on backwards!" Withou
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by hobbyjogger 7y ago
That's tragic--but let's keep it in context. It happened before WWII. Some of these young boys were wearing shorts and sandals (without hats) in a blizzard, climbing up a mountain slope with a 70% gradient (black diamond ski slope
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by hobbyjogger 7y ago
> What is curious to me is that elite marathon runners "jog" at what I would consider being a sprint for myself. So, I wonder if sprinting would be an anaerobic or aerobic exercise for myself? Everyone has an anaerobic threshol
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by hobbyjogger 7y ago
> In many US states, the frequent problem is that the agent who is showing you homes (and who you tend to think of as "your agent") is not actually your agent (with fiduciary duty to you), but a subagent of the seller (with fid
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
Great comment. Here's a good page from CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics[1]. > "One technical problem with Computational Law, familiar to many individual with legal training, is due to the open texture of laws. C
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
> In many jurisdictions of the United States, promissory estoppel is an alternative to consideration as a basis for enforcing a promise. It is also sometimes called detrimental reliance. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
The dividend provision just says that the common won't get a dividend unless the preferred has already received their 6% (per year). It doesn't mean that you couldn't issue the preferred a smaller dividend--that would just co
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
Comment above: > Women also do remarkably well in ultrarunning. Yes, a world record is always remarkable in the general sense. But in this specific context (discussing the coach's claim that women are "more capable of long-dist
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
Camille's run wasn't particularly remarkable--about 10% slower than the men's 100 mile record. Much more amazing to me is that this 10% performance difference holds remarkably steady for men and women's performance in a
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
> I replaced my Moto G3 with a 6S Plus I have plenty of issues with Motorola (and the Android OS update situation) but you bought a budget $250 phone. Not particularly surprising that the customer care and updates etc. weren't on pa
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
Good point. I worked one summer at a five-star hotel in a ski town in the rockies. At various times and for various clients (typically on short notice) we (1) hosted a banquet for a former U.S. president that involved locking down the hotel
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
That's essentially Rayiner's point--focusing on large payouts is not an effective response to this concern. In states with a cap on the maximum medmal claim, the cap often "saves" the defendant money in situations where
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
(marginally) improving traffic (a bit) ≠ saving us from our transportation woes Austin still has a long, long way to go.
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
The scooters definitely aren't "ruining Austin" but they're not "saving" it from transportation woes either. The percentage of drivers who live close enough to downtown to hop on a scooter instead of taking car
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
None of those are donations, nor are they anywhere near being tax deductible. Again, you're focused on a totally different issue. There's nothing wrong with splitting costs or reimbursing a friend who bought you something. Splitti
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
Plenty of high school kids have bank accounts here. That's not the issue. The problem is that a personal bank account doesn't qualify as a non-profit under U.S. tax laws. So donors can't write off the donation and the kid wou
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by hobbyjogger 8y ago
True, judges often don't come right out and say it in so many words, but many, many courtroom decisions involve an underlying assessment of the "fairness" of the situation presented. The concept of fairness is a fundamental c

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