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I think you're right about keeping the long-term goals of the company in mind when doing the equity split. A couple months in the span of 6-10 years is nothing. We'll stick with the 50/50 split based on this.

On the vesting part IANAL so we'll stick to what works and not try to monkey with the vesting schedules.

Thank you for the advice!

I'm not sure I buy the idea of email as a private alternative to Facebook. To keep your message content private, wouldn't all parties need to be hosting their own servers or using encryption?

There's also the problem of knowing who you're contacting and when. Hiding that would probably take some kind of anonymous remailer program.

Normal people would probably just have a free email account from companies like gmail or yahoo and not use any encryption. Wouldn't services like TinyLetter then be transferring the data from Facebook to other email hosting companies? This takes care of some privacy issues but still doesn't seem to solve all of problems for private communication.

If you want to create an analogy, I think chans are more like user group meetings that happen in public spaces (e.g. a public park). Nobody would kick members out of the park because they heard that they're pro-ISIS (that's just their opinion). However, display of illegal content or illegal actions would get members removed via someone calling the cops. Off topic comments that detract from the spirit of the group could also get members suspended or kicked out of the group permanently.

Is it up to park police to monitor the user groups? Sure, but they cannot take action unless it violates the law.

I understand the state's fear after the Mt. Gox fallout but their effort seems too overreaching. How could they possibly enforce _all_ citizens and businesses involved in cryptocurrencies to have licenses, hold 10 years of records, etc.?

OTOH, would there be a way to hold currency exchanges legally accountable without breaking cryptocurrencies?

There are too many stupid exchanges that scam peoples' coins and this seems like a barrier to adoption for lots of people. It would be nice to just push $100 from a bank account into a bitcoin account (like paypal does).

The one thing I still like about AppleScript is the GUI scripting. I don't know of any other way to control the mouse position, clicking, and keyboard input using a programming language.

One time I had to fill out a few thousand pdf files and print only select pages from them (like pages 2-4 and 14-22) for a client. I used applescripting because it was easy to write (took about half an hour) and worked consistently. Are there any other ways to do GUI scripting in OSX?