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jev can ask jev if they should return investor money and shut down jev

You probably just need to lower your MTU if your phone is getting an ip6 address.

> ... or how it's supposed to make any programmer worth their weight in salt 10x better.

It doesn't. The only people I've seen claim such speedups are either not generally fluent in programming or stand to benefit financially from reinforcing this meme.

Are you doing development? Is it just you two? What are they doing during this time, aside from having originally provided capital? Are they smart money? Do you need them aside from their money? Do they have connections, a network, or something else compelling they bring to the table? If you're sure you're going to raise a seed you could give them a larger cut of that "not too far away" as you said.

To answer your questions more directly:

  > 1. Is it reasonable for a Technical Founder to take a Median HCOL salary (due to strict financial constraints) while the Non-technical Founder takes €0?
  > 2. Does the "Fairness" argument (matching salaries) trump the "Runway" argument (survival) in early-stage startups?
  > 3. Did they waive the right to claim "unfairness" by joining the partnership with full prior knowledge of this asymmetry?

There is no "right" and "wrong" way. There is no "fair". It's whatever you can swing. You are partners, and if you want to keep it together you need to avoid building resentment, but it's also a business, and you need to bet on yourself. The "fairness" obsession is naive and it's exactly what slippery MBAs like to foist over devs who are zoomed in too much to value their time properly.

What's stopping you from getting a job and doing this part-time on your own, retaining all equity?

This is cool, but we'd be naive to think the other side is not also learning from this operation. The "gotcha" questions that foiled them at the end will likely make it into their playbook for next go around, and these attacks are going to be more sophisticated.

> What Id love is a journaling file system.

Same; that would really improve the remote router scenario. I've had a router refuse to boot up after a power outage until I manually ran a disk check. I'd like to at least be able to force start-up no matter what, but journaling is the proper fix.

Always have your own attorney look over paperwork. In what country are you?

It doesn't sound like you want to pursue it, but you could make a case that you signed under duress. Not knowing any specifics about your situation, personally, I would focus on moving on to the next thing.

How was your equity "revoked"?

The ultimate filter is: do not visit the website. It comes down to the cost of having the freedom to do the filtering yourself vs. outsourcing that effort to a company sharing (some of) your values.

The latter locks you in since you are in no position to change the company's mind.

We have one: the internet.