I think a lot of these "not legal advice" disclaimers are overkill.
You can't get proper "legal advice" from a blog. You get legal advice when you hire a lawyer. A blog might be full of accurate and useful legal information, but that doesn't make it "legal advice" in the sense that you can sue the blogger for legal malpractice.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but has anyone actually seen such a lawsuit?
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I think a lot of these "not legal advice" disclaimers are overkill. You can't get proper "legal advice" from a blog. You get legal advice when you hire a lawyer. A blog might be full of accurate and useful legal information, but that doesn't make it "legal advice" in the sense that you can sue the blogger for legal malpractice.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but has anyone actually seen such a lawsuit?
Depends if you consider the blog and subsequent invitation on HN to be an offer to treat - acceptance being the implementation of said advice.
Without a legal disclaimer then the blog could theoretically be held accountable as they positioned themselves as the authority and invited action.