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hkhanna
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- hkhannaTo please Trump, Instacart fired my pregnant wife Lisa in a cowardly and cruel way because she dared to run for office as a Democrat. Instacart's leadership will try to obfuscate what happened, but Lisa has the truth on her side. I am so proud of her for fighting back.
- a16z and certain Sequoia partners specifically supported this during the 2024 election.
If haphazard, cruel dismantling of state capacity bothers you, avoid raising money from venture capital firms that supported it.
- I get it, your perspective is totally fair. Part of the reason Democrats care only about donors (the Israel lobby is one of those donors) is because of the influence of money in politics, which is a direct result of Citizens United. If they don't care about their donors, they lose. The incentives are pretty straightforward.
There were great campaign finance laws on the books, but Republican-appointed judges have steadily eroded those over the years, culminating in Citizens United. We have to overrule that awful case if we are to ever have working campaign finance laws in this country again. There's only one way to overrule that case, and that's with Democrat-appointed judges. Those judges typically do not answer to donors and so don't have the same incentives you've identified.
- This can be fixed with sane campaign finance laws. Every elected Democrat I know is willing to enact those if Citizens United is overruled. And every Democratic-appointed Justice on the Supreme Court would vote to overturn Citizens United. I know it sounds trite, but voting for Democrats again and again, flawed as they are, for generations, is the only way we're going to get out of this mess.
- Isn't it a property of infinity? If pi goes on infinitely without repeating itself, every possible combination of numbers appears somewhere in pi.
It's sort of like the idea that if the universe is infinitely big and mass and energy are randomly distributed throughout the universe, then an exact copy of you on an exact copy of Earth is out there somewhere.
This property of infinity has always fascinated me, so I'm very curious for where the logical fallacy might be.
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- This is a really hard problem, and kudos to you for trying to tackle it. Time tracking narratives can be so different from practice area to practice area and also as a function of the size of the firm.
Often, it also comes down to the idiosyncrasies of the client and their org structure! I wonder if part of the solution will include using the actual invoices sent to a client to train how future invoices to that client should be prepared.
Good luck to you!
- I've spent a lot of time looking into this for non-profits I am involved in. Currently, I use Mailgun's Mailing List feature which is pretty good, but has a few warts and doesn't really seem to be in active development.
But I have half a mind to develop a Django-based system specifically for non-profit member management, build a postgres view on top of the Django tables and and have a postfix mail server reference that postgres view for mailing list delivery. I would use Mailgun or another SMTP relay to minimize deliverability issues.
- Me! I started my solo, startup law practice almost by accident via a Hacker News comment years ago. It's now my primary source of income.
It's hard, but less hard than what startup founders do. It's nice having control of my schedule, but the flip side is that there's never a day off. Personally, I think being self-employed is great for people who naturally work really hard and want to capture the full output of their labor.
I don't think I could ever go back to full time employment for someone else. It's addicting having your own business that actually cash flows!
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- I needed this for expensing receipts that come via email. I created an API for it where you POST the email to an endpoint and get back a PDF.
Email me and I’ll give you access for free.
- My law practice [0] started as a side project from an errant Hacker News comment years ago, and now it’s my primary source of income.
At the time I was an in house lawyer, and then a software engineer, and things just kind of snowballed from there.
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- Notes: A notes git repo that contains mostly Markdown files, which I write via Obsidian.md.
Action items: Github issues on that notes repo. I wrote some custom code that lets me snooze actions via Github labels and sets up certain tasks to appear automatically on a recurring schedule (e.g., replace the air filter in my house every 90 days).
This works really well for me, but sadly it is bad for collaborating on projects with less technical folks such as my wife.
- In most states in the United States, if someone dies without a will and without anyone ascertainable in the line of intestate succession, the assets of the decedent escheat to the state.
So, if the person lived in California when they passed, California would own the intellectual property associated with the voice. Why or whether the State of California would ever enforce or even seek to perfect those rights is a different matter.
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- This would be a sea change in Virginia politics, which are dominated by Dominion Energy, the local regulated utility.
I've always felt it that it was wrong for a regulated utility to have so much influence in the Commonwealth. If I'm reading the article correctly, at least now their profits will reduce to the extent they are directly lobbying or donating, providing some counterpressure on their outsized influence.
- None of this is legal advice, but I'm a student of negotiable instruments like checks and the history they have in our system of law and finance.
Checks are negotiable instruments governed by UCC Article 3, which has been adopted in all or nearly all states in the US. The drawer of a check, in this case Paypal, is normally liable for when an impostor presents the check or when their employees forge indorsements in the name of the payee. The thinking is that the drawer is best positioned to protect against that kind of fraud.
Depending on your state, you can probably take them to small claims court over this on the theory of a fraudulently indorsed instrument. You might also have a claim for breach of contract for failure to return the balance on the account, although you'd need to show how their failure to give you your money breaches a contract or statute, and that might be hard to do without a lawyer. The claim for fraudulent indorsement of the check is probably cleaner and less fact intensive.
Small claims is really accessible to non-lawyers, and PayPal probably won't even show up. You could get a default judgment and then, if you really wanted to, execute that judgment against their bank, which you can probably see from the copy of the cancelled check.
Again, none of this is legal advice! It's going to be time consuming and maybe not worth $270 but if you have the time and will, I'd say go for it.