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Curious, IANAP, but suppose they get this to work? What would happen in the case of a magnetic field failure? I assume the magnetic field is generated by running electricity throug…

As an estate lawyer, the biggest issue I see with these types of estate plan services is that amateurs use them and fuck up their documents. Either they execute the documents incor…

As if I said anywhere in my post "I must pop pill x." Side effects = none. Cost = negligible. Could I afford to exercise more and lose a few pounds? Sure. But that is not going to …

Of course we dont know why he died but I echo the sentiment that you need to be getting annual physicals and blood work to catch potential issues sooner rather than later. A few ye…

I just had to respond because I am a somewhat new developer and after a while I could also tell you what a class was, an instance, static methods, public methods, private methods, …

For myself, it will be three years in March 2015 when I first began to code. I am in my 30s and a lawyer by trade, with a life science background. My own assessment is that I have …

Hi, let me know if you still wanted to chat about your legal start up. I answered your comment a few days after you posted, not sure if you saw it.

Sure thing, I can free up some time at some point this week. Interested to hear what you have in mind.

Hey thanks for the suggestions! I love going to tech meetups, they make for a refreshing change from the normally stuffy lawyer events I attend on occasion. :) So you started your …

I am a lawyer barred in NY and SC, currently practicing in SC in my own office. My college degree is in Biochemistry and I took Math through Calc II. During law school (2003-2006) …

My own particular belief is that the death penalty as it is currently implemented is an abomination. But I also believe that there are just some crimes committed that must be punis…

A rule of thumb is just a rule of thumb, I don't think anybody would say that a particular rule of thumb is exactly how you would value a website. Maybe we can generate a hierarchy…

The recent Ask HN post asking who has a side project for sale got me to thinking about rules of thumb for valuing websites. One commenter on that post stated a rule of thumb that a…

That is about how I took it too. I see much worse in what Google did here.

Glad to see Paul Graham's pending comments machine is working so well here.

The real complaint is that there are not enough programmers that they can pay cheaply. The idea that there are not enough programmers is just bs.

"Don't be evil." Should have been read as "Don't be evil, unless it helps Google get ahead." This all brings up the age old question..... how much money is enough?

Check out meetup.com, which tends to have groups that like to get together in different towns for different culinary experiences. You know the users are ripe for using the web to d…

Interesting on a few levels. One, the learning curve by Jennifer is impressive, going from a site to change background color in the beginning to yumhacker. Yeah there is a ways to …

Nah, nothing is better than the lawdingo.com.

Do they do the administrative hearing as well, or just submit your protest? Cause if they think they are going to have non-lawyers attend hearings on behalf of others, I think the …

I agree with you. My point was just that I do not want my value being reduced to nothing but time, and that is exactly what hourly billing does. So I tend not to do use hourly bill…

As a lawyer I am always interested in sites that want to try to change the legal profession in some way. My thoughts: Do you vet the attorneys in some way, ie, require a bar licens…

This comment really illustrates the major flaw in hourly billing. People begin to believe that all they are paying for is time. But they really are not just paying for time. They a…

As a lawyer, I'll first say that it is always okay to haggle a little bit about the billing arrangement. I would expect an entrepreneur to want to negotiate. Two, some of these pra…