I have walked through github code that a candidate has posted on their resume, asking about choices made as we went, potential improvements, etc. and usually the answers were some version of "the instructor said we should do it that way."
The Statute of Frauds sets the limit over which a contract has to be in writing, and other things. Not all contracts have to be in writing. Additionally, while contracts are generally signed by both parties, it actually, when a written/signed contract is required, only needs to be signed by the party against whom a remedy is being sought.
If agree to sell me your bicycle in a written contract for $1,500 and you sign it and I pay, that contract doesn't need my signature for me to seek a legal remedy against you in the event you don't deliver the bicycle.
I think the difference here is between what contract law states under common law and what people imagine it to state. I agree it feels weird to say hey I offer you X for a house and you accept then we're under contract. It's such a big purchase and typically there's so much else going on (local regs, mold disclosures, lead paint disclosures, etc.) that it feels weird, but this is how contract law operates.
I don't think I quite understand. In traditional contract flow, taking out unrelated things: one person presents an offer, the other person accepts that offer, and on acceptance a contract is created. It doesn't then go back to the offeror to accept the acceptance. I may be misunderstanding you.
Indeed, however an offer by itself doesn't create anything binding. One of the other critical pieces is the acceptance of that offer. Otherwise we'd have situations where someone was forced to sell their house simply for being in the presence of an offer!
Advertising seems like a bit of a red herring here, given that the domain wasn't advertised. My understanding from reading is that the DomainAgents people sent an unsolicited offer on behalf of Jump for $2,500. I could be wrong on that. Even if I am though, using your house analogy, it's like offering a price on a house that's advertised, and a homeowner says "no I will sell it to you for 20x the amount" and then the buyer accepts in writing.
According to the message history in the court filings, Merryman responded on July 1: “The price for wormhole.com is a firm US $ 50,000. -Dick-.”
To Merryman’s surprise, Jump agreed.
Indicates that there was a counteroffer for $50k and an acceptance of that offer. 323's post is wrong because quotes are not the same as what happens in the offer/counteroffer/acceptance contract dance, they're a different thing. Quotes are related to performing work for a price.[1] Here it was Offer => Counteroffer => Acceptance.
In these cases the remedies are usually either specific performance or monetary compensation. Specific performance is when they enforce the contract to its terms, which would be the transfer of the domain, and this remedy is usually used in cases where the thing being sold is unique. Real property sale is usually specific performance under the theory that any piece of land is totally unique (there is some debate about whether this should be the case, two farm properties in Nebraska are probably similar enough, whereas two oceanfront properties in California maybe not). I would argue that a domain name is unique enough that specific performance would be the remedy, after all there is and can only be one wormhole.com.
The other remedy would be some sort of monetary damages. I would say that would be something like whatever it costs to purchase a comparable domain, but it would be really hard to decide on what a comparable domain is.
Another remedy would be damages, like you said, but what are damages here? Probably nothing, so even if Jump won it would just be symbolic under that theory.
This is classic offer and acceptance in contract law. If you did indeed offer, in writing, $50k for that person's house in something that wasn't a joke offer, and then other person accepted for whatever reason before you rescinded the offer, that's a valid contract for sale of something. There may be additional concerns given it's real property and not goods, but the point stands: the owner was presented with an offer, then countered the offer with $50k, and the first party accepted the offer. All in writing. This creates a valid contract.
I would say this is a valid contract, as much as I don't like siding with scummy crypto people (scummy might be redundant here). A contract requires several things to form. According to LLI[1] these are:
The basic elements required for the agreement to be a legally enforceable contract are: mutual assent, expressed by a valid offer and acceptance; adequate consideration; capacity; and legality.
Jump made an offer of $2,500, Dick said the price is $50k firm, the other party immediately accepted. This was in writing, which gets around the Statute of Frauds given the value of the contract is over $500. This seems very straightforward from a legal perspective. I do think that crypto people are super scummy, but the only remedy available when there has been all the elements of a contract existing but one party reneging is a legal remedy either for specific performance or monetary damages, so it's natural that Jump went to court to enforce the, what I would argue is, valid contract.
My friends and family do. I check in at a place on Swarm and get comments from friends, or if friends are already out in the area but we didn't explicitly coordinate we will find each other if desired. It's also nice to look back and try to remember that one restaurant we went to in that place with the great dish that we now cannot remember and look it up in check in history. It's been a great mechanic for my friends and I.
Field Notes[1] notebook with something like a pilot slim pen[2] has been perfect for every day carrying in my shirt pocket or back pocket and is producible at a moment's notice.
There are lots of reasons to use heavier, higher quality, acid-free paper inside one's notebooks. The regular notebooks work ok, better notebooks are objectively better in many practical metrics as well as impractical metrics.
Totally off topic, but I loved JustWorks sooooooo much. When we got big enough to hire an actual dedicated HR department, people were unhappier in comparison, though JW is pretty expensive past a certain scale so it makes sense. It's like Heroku for the employee part of the biz: use it starting out and until you scale and then switch to something less expensive but more time consuming.
HOA actions seem like exactly the sort of thing I should be receiving by mail. I think this thread is referring to not wanting things like "To {YOUR_NAME} or Current Resident" or spam offers via mail, which are a waste.
I do this same thing, it has worked really well. I browse the all subreddit and aggressively block/filter subreddits that are of no interest, then smaller subreddits start bubbling up and all becomes relatively good for finding new content actually. Blocking the main default subreddits and subreddits where they just keep posting memes and all subreddits that have anything to do with gaming or new games gets you like 80% of the way there. It's nice seeing small subreddits on all after that curation.
I have seen it happen through complaints reaching the all subreddit. However it only seemed to happen to subreddits that were peddling deep hatred against outgroups like people of color, overweight people, or were just vile. Your comment makes it seem like any given subreddit is in danger of quarantining, but anecdotally that doesn't seem to be the case. However, I have an open mind: would you give me an example of a subreddit that was otherwise innocuous yet got quarantined?
I have had good experiences renting on business trips with Turo itself. I wanted more exotic cars than what I might get at Hertz so created an account and all that. It's true the price goes up substantially from the originally stated rate though, maybe I didn't quite see the discrepancy because I had already created an account.
My biggest gripe with Turo, and the reason I don't use it much, is it's really inconvenient, even though you book through the app. For example, I land at SFO. With Turo turns out to get the stated rate you need to go to the car's location, which ime is usually some inconvenient neighborhood where the owner lives. SO it's kind of weird Lyfting to some neighborhood to get a car. Otherwise it's like an extra $80-150 to have the car waiting at SFO (or whatever airport). Then returning is the same ordeal.
I am a bit used to the dark pattern in the app they and places like AirBnB employ, for better or worse I'm used to it, and so never really get my hopes up until I see the final checkout price right before hitting "Reserve" (which adds friction because the fees are never the same across cars/homes). One thing that I think would make Turo viable for business travelers like me in the future would be a much more frictionless delivery process, perhaps acquiring a rental area at airports like the regular car rental companies have and not adding giant fees to avoid inconvenience. Put the onus on the person providing the car to have the car at the expected place at the expected time.
Not that I agree with civil forfeiture, in fact I'm highly against it, but I don't think of it as drug dealing even if the money comes from drugs. They police did not manufacture or sell the drugs, so it's a pretty big leap to call seizing cash drug dealing in any form.
Maybe "theft with extra steps" because they do in fact essentially steal the money and add the extra steps to legally inoculate themselves against the consequences if they were to go and just steal the money.
Well said. Before we moved to ${MARQUEE_LOCATION} my partner and I made a couple visits of about 2 weeks each, each time staying in different neighborhoods. We decided it was right for us and made the move, and knew even what neighborhood was for us.
I've personally found that staying long enough to have time to get a minor routine in the new place can be super helpful.
Isn't the paradox that if the universe is static in size or shrinking, eventually all the light would fill the sky into a blinding display, rather than dark. So it's a function of the universe expanding.
I am pretty good at devices like this. Have done a lot of raspberry pi development, arduino, nvidia jetson etc. for real ML production application. I ordered a Coral before and just had no luck. Worked for some contrived applications, but had nothing but trouble with the drivers and anything remotely custom just failed. It's cool tech, but I'll pass on this vanity project that will undoubtedly get cancelled right as people start to rely on it.
I don't do this anymore. Very draining to be an SRE. I remember one Christmas I worked until 2am because of SRE pages on software that, in retrospect, didn't need to even be up at the time. Google used to give us SRE bomber jackets, and while those were super cool in a nerdy way (I never got one because I wasn't an SRE there), it was clear the org had to really go out there with incentives to get people to sign up for SRE. I love the practice of reliability and building fault tolerant systems, but it's just so draining / energizing at the time, then you realize all your efforts (or at least mine and colleagues' at the large companies for which we worked) went into keeping stupid, unimpactful things from falling over briefly. Unless you're SRE for a real, not startup-tongue-in-cheek "mission critical" system it is absolutely not worth it. In my very cynical opinion, I'd need to be an SRE keeping a NASA rocket working, or keeping the ISS up, or working on some SDV system, before I would consider a system to be really mission critical.
I would love to try this, sounds like it solves a need my team currently uses Mermaid/Drawio/etc. for. But looks like it's behind an account setup screen. :(