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Doug Cornelius
Personal blog · compliancebuilding.combusinesseconomics
Doug Cornelius writes Compliance Building, a personal blog at compliancebuilding.com about business and economics. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Doug Cornelius's compliance blog as a source on securities law, including insider trading and whether real estate counts as a security under the Howey test. Commenters cite its posts as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Doug Cornelius on compliance for private equity real estate
What Hacker News says?
There is a court case about this. https://www.compliancebuilding.com/2014/02/06/working-on-the... Roadroad workers notice a bunch of visitors in suits, boss asked them to put together an inventory of property. So they thought the company was going to be sold and profited on it. SEC charged them, courts found them not guilty of insider trading.
Comment linking /2014/02/06/working-on-the-railroad-is-not-insider-trading/
on “Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?”Usually when I see something like SNMP listening to the public internet, I treat it like this: http://www.compliancebuilding.com/2009/08/03/compliance-van-...
Comment linking /2009/08/03/compliance-van-halen-and-brown-mms/
on “The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANAS and EXTRABACON Exploits”You can google this stuff you know? Real estate does not fall under the securities umbrella. This is well established legal precedent, covered under Howey, the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act subsequent rulings. Real estate fails the Howey test because there is no common enterprise. https://www.compliancebuilding.com/2010/11/04/what-is-a-secu...
Comment linking /2010/11/04/what-is-a-security-is-real-estate-a-security/
on “Coinbase CEO: we're preparing to go to court with the U.S. SEC”