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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 doe…

Agreed 100%. Essentially no employees (and nearly no founders outside of your unicorns) have anti-dilution protections against future investment.

Essentially explained by the timing of Git adopting this policy (and actually having a trademark to enforce): https://public-inbox.org/git/20170202022655.2jwvudhvo4hmueaw...

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 equ…

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 (m…

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 betwee…

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 o…

Not affiliated but this AR tech seems promising: https://carear.com/

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.

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 parti…

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 g…

> 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 pre…

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 Fre…

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 s…

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 …

> 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…

> 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 …

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 …

> 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 rel…

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 pre…

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 …

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 stea…

> 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 t…

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 …

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" …