you are correct to point out the "flaw" in what s/he said. I don't know the actual answer (and it would be difficult to convince me that anybody has all the data either) but many people "experienced" with startups…
ponzi's are illegal, and not for being misleading, for having the financial structure of a "pyramid scheme". "disclosing" the structure makes it easier to prove that they fit what has been made illegal.
These things have changed dramatically in the last couple generations, in Europe and in the US, and Asia. I would caution you against thinking that things will stay as they are. Hell, I'd caution you against thinking…
Yeah but the world is not a pretty place, at home we have monopolistic unicorns, and abroad we have unfair business practices... I'm not shedding any tears for Apple, screw'em. Even if the US is a relatively "clean"…
actually, i would say yours is the narrow point, and it's also a POV whose reach you are looking to broaden. The negative aspect of your POV is that some of us get tired of hearing it over and over (and I'm not picking…
thanks, that's very good. quick critique (wanted to contribute to this conversation while it's active rather than delve deeply into LLVM for the rest of the day :) it's (naturally and understandably) written from the…
like you are saying "it's a problem", and like I'm saying "that's the problem I'd like to see solved" as an example, what they teach us in school, and what large projects like NASA have do do, is to first agree on a…
more detailed question please? I'm happy to discuss but I'm not sure whether you are looking for bottom up nitty gritty details or more top down grounded philosophizing.
the computer science / computer programming problem I'd like to see solved is, keeping projects "fresh" and open/accessible enough that people like this could feel like they were learning in an unencumbered way, and at…
the language was already in the founding documents. yes, with hindsight, more language could have been added; but what I'm saying is, the language that was there is perfectly clear; it's lawyers and their bullshit who…
thanks for asking what does "constitutional right to petition" have to do with this, by thinking about how to explain it I figured out what I meant overall. I meant it in the sense that "rights to petition" and "rights…
| Gawker wasn't guilty of either libel or slander because they didn't publish anything about Hogan that was false. ...not to mention, Hogan's public persona and living he has earned has been by posing as a larger than…
they took a gamble and lost, that's business != good riddance
I think they wanted you to notice the design and the thinking lines. They didn't set out to invent the world's best chess player.
what would make it much better along those lines (are you listening designers?) would be if it drew its thinking lines on the board but under the pieces. because I can't study the board while it's thinking (it obscures…
it's like you are explaining how somebody can invent a new alphabet that is "evocative" so we should accept using it instead of the alphabet we already know. or to put it another way, Staunton.
There is no answer, there is no law, no standard, no precedent, which any "unusually sophisticated" lawyer looking at it for a few minutes would realize. But instead of informing the "unusually sophisticated" court…
I was pointing out a thought process that I thought would work better and more rationally (it's the way parents adjudicate disputes, i.e. what's really at stake here, and yes, parents do get to legislate) rather than…
In my cases, I felt that the court spent time on issues that were not only minor, but the court left them unopined. This just encourages laywers to keep doing it, it earns them more money. For example, and since you are…
Negative PR is used; unfortunately, it's used on the judge to turn the judge against the other side. It comes so thick and fast the judges get sick of it... yet, they are influenced by it, and they bluster but issue no…
ha ha, good one! :) but my personal peeve is actually a little different: regardless of whether I'm part of a unique group or it works this way for everybody, the different parts of my brain remember the prank…
| We do not have equal access to our judicial system in the United States. If you have money, you have the power... Your POV that money distorts and helps determine winners, while seeming so prima facie obvious, does…
oh the rich rich irony of your comment here, you silencer of dissenting opinions you.
first of all, oh come off it, when I said everybody else, I meant "everybody else here on HN who is downvoting me and not balanced by upvoters in my corner, and since anybody can upvote and only a small faction can…
The situation with supposed gerrymandering is more subtle than you give it credit for, and you therefore are either hopelessly naive about voting constituencies, or you would soon see on inspection that your "impartial…
you are correct to point out the "flaw" in what s/he said. I don't know the actual answer (and it would be difficult to convince me that anybody has all the data either) but many people "experienced" with startups…
ponzi's are illegal, and not for being misleading, for having the financial structure of a "pyramid scheme". "disclosing" the structure makes it easier to prove that they fit what has been made illegal.
These things have changed dramatically in the last couple generations, in Europe and in the US, and Asia. I would caution you against thinking that things will stay as they are. Hell, I'd caution you against thinking…
Yeah but the world is not a pretty place, at home we have monopolistic unicorns, and abroad we have unfair business practices... I'm not shedding any tears for Apple, screw'em. Even if the US is a relatively "clean"…
actually, i would say yours is the narrow point, and it's also a POV whose reach you are looking to broaden. The negative aspect of your POV is that some of us get tired of hearing it over and over (and I'm not picking…
thanks, that's very good. quick critique (wanted to contribute to this conversation while it's active rather than delve deeply into LLVM for the rest of the day :) it's (naturally and understandably) written from the…
like you are saying "it's a problem", and like I'm saying "that's the problem I'd like to see solved" as an example, what they teach us in school, and what large projects like NASA have do do, is to first agree on a…
more detailed question please? I'm happy to discuss but I'm not sure whether you are looking for bottom up nitty gritty details or more top down grounded philosophizing.
the computer science / computer programming problem I'd like to see solved is, keeping projects "fresh" and open/accessible enough that people like this could feel like they were learning in an unencumbered way, and at…
the language was already in the founding documents. yes, with hindsight, more language could have been added; but what I'm saying is, the language that was there is perfectly clear; it's lawyers and their bullshit who…
thanks for asking what does "constitutional right to petition" have to do with this, by thinking about how to explain it I figured out what I meant overall. I meant it in the sense that "rights to petition" and "rights…
| Gawker wasn't guilty of either libel or slander because they didn't publish anything about Hogan that was false. ...not to mention, Hogan's public persona and living he has earned has been by posing as a larger than…
they took a gamble and lost, that's business != good riddance
I think they wanted you to notice the design and the thinking lines. They didn't set out to invent the world's best chess player.
what would make it much better along those lines (are you listening designers?) would be if it drew its thinking lines on the board but under the pieces. because I can't study the board while it's thinking (it obscures…
it's like you are explaining how somebody can invent a new alphabet that is "evocative" so we should accept using it instead of the alphabet we already know. or to put it another way, Staunton.
There is no answer, there is no law, no standard, no precedent, which any "unusually sophisticated" lawyer looking at it for a few minutes would realize. But instead of informing the "unusually sophisticated" court…
I was pointing out a thought process that I thought would work better and more rationally (it's the way parents adjudicate disputes, i.e. what's really at stake here, and yes, parents do get to legislate) rather than…
In my cases, I felt that the court spent time on issues that were not only minor, but the court left them unopined. This just encourages laywers to keep doing it, it earns them more money. For example, and since you are…
Negative PR is used; unfortunately, it's used on the judge to turn the judge against the other side. It comes so thick and fast the judges get sick of it... yet, they are influenced by it, and they bluster but issue no…
ha ha, good one! :) but my personal peeve is actually a little different: regardless of whether I'm part of a unique group or it works this way for everybody, the different parts of my brain remember the prank…
| We do not have equal access to our judicial system in the United States. If you have money, you have the power... Your POV that money distorts and helps determine winners, while seeming so prima facie obvious, does…
oh the rich rich irony of your comment here, you silencer of dissenting opinions you.
first of all, oh come off it, when I said everybody else, I meant "everybody else here on HN who is downvoting me and not balanced by upvoters in my corner, and since anybody can upvote and only a small faction can…
The situation with supposed gerrymandering is more subtle than you give it credit for, and you therefore are either hopelessly naive about voting constituencies, or you would soon see on inspection that your "impartial…