scottmmjackson

Disclaimer: I'm an RStudio employee. But this post is my personal opinion and not representative of that of RStudio.

Separately, I'm also a licensed (non-practicing) attorney; despite that, this isn't legal advice.

Some of the things you've said are correct, but are kind of skipping a few important steps.

Buyout: Any corporate buyout, particularly of a Delaware corporation, opens the board up to scrutiny and requires the consent of the corporate constituency. In JJ's presentation he cited Revlon which is an example of a dispute over a buyout by a major shareholder. So, yes, technically benefit corporations can be bought out, but they must approve of the buyout using the corporate governance rules of a benefit corporation.

Converting to a benefit corporation isn't easy- you pretty much require unanimous shareholder consent and it's fairly close to the amount of consensus you need to convert to a pure nonprofit. Same with converting back to an "any lawful business purpose" corporation. So again, yes it's possible, but it's very unlikely unless something convinces basically everyone with a stake that it's worthwhile.

I'm not sure where you're getting that PBC status is not legally binding- I didn't see anything like that in the Harvard link. Corporate purpose statements have a very real legal effect. Would you mind explaining more about this statement? I want to make sure I'm not mistaken.

Note that the article you cite was written a year before the Delaware Benefit Corporation Law was signed by the governor- so some of the things it says might be a little speculative based on the legal realities at the time.

If you want to learn more in depth, I can recommend "Benefit Corporation Law & Governance" by Frederick Alexander.

But if you know R, you can change the behavior of operators.

    > oldPlus <- `+`
    > `+` <- function(e1, e2) {
    +     if (is.character(e1) && is.character(e2))
    +       paste(e1,e2,sep="")
    +     else
    +       oldPlus(e1,e2)
    + }
    > "hello" + "world"
    [1] "helloworld"

I actually did put in the work, however, and I agree with parent. You also don't become an authority by pretending you're some mystic wise man without saying anything of substance.

It's unconstitutional for many reasons, one of which is that the executive has no authority to block the entry of legal visa and green card holders without due process.

And yes, it deals a massive blow to the rule of law and faith in the stability of the nation when legal visitors and immigrants are blocked from entry due to an arbitrary dictate from POTUS.

It's a constitutional issue in every sense. The US Congress ALONE has the power to make policy. The POTUS can relax policy enforcement, but cannot enforce policy that was never made. What part of this is hard for you to understand??

TBH microservices do a good job of making you much more dependent on your tools, and selecting the wrong tool for the job won't become clear until you've used that tool for years.

"One algorithm crashes on load but the other is a little slow. They're exactly the same, right?"

I wasn't surprised when I found out it was a law firm either. I've had the good fortune to work with some of the good ones, but legal marketing in general requires a very sensitive a-hole detector.

SPA frameworks are not all-encompassing tools for buildong all web pages. Notably, trying to SEO a SPA is frustrating at best and impossible at worst.

However, in b2b use cases where SEO isn't an issue, SPA frameworks are ideal for coordinating a static-site<->dynamic-api system.

They still charge for court records and opinions. Remember how Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to take them for free?

They're trying to "Do One Thing And Do It Well". It's always interesting how core UNIX philosophy often gets lost in Startup Culture's rush to "Disrupt The World".

> They need to ensure that none of their client use financial services to commit crimes

There are also laws that give financial institutions due diligence obligations to ensure they're not facilitating "unsanctioned boycotts".

This is one of those situations where having worked a retail job in your life can really impart some wisdom into you. Retailers often give their minimum-wage grunts this song and dance about "family" and "performance tiers" and all that- and the grunts will tell you that it takes a couple years for some people to internalize that it's all a scam to make you work harder for minimum wage.

Your employer will not take care of you. It is your job as an employee to make sure they meet you halfway.