Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Is bitcoin a scam?
Below the fold is an extended excerpt from this excellent essay by Kai Stinchcombe:
Leave Facebook Alone
Julia Angwin suggests “four ways to fix Facebook” in this essay. We restate and then critique each one of her suggestions below:
Legal Methods
Below the fold are two fun quotes comparing and contrasting civil law versus common law approaches to judging via the Volokh Conspiracy:
Assorted Links (Twitter Feed Edition)
We are so over Facebook, and we don’t use Instagram or Snap, but we have really grown to love Twitter. Below the fold is just a small sampling of some of our favorite Twitter accounts on our Twitter feed (@lawscholar):
Is qualified immunity unlawful?
That is the title of this new paper by our friend and colleague William Baude (@WilliamBaude on Twitter), a law professor and legal scholar at the University of Chicago. The qualified immunity doctrine is supposed to protect public officials from … Continue reading
Rap for math geeks (K-nearest neighbarz)
Here are the first two stanzas: K-nearest neighbors, surprisingly it can slay Got these I.I.D women so I call them Naive baes With conditional vision guessing, I guess I should listen Their predictions more accurate than anything I could say, … Continue reading
Every day is groundhog day!
Say what? That is from Austin Kleon’s talk titled “How to keep going” (published in Medium). Read the whole thing here.
Legal Risk (Part 2)
We identified several types of legal risk in our previous post, including the risk of litigation, the risk of legal liability (both civil and criminal), and the risk of reputation loss, but what can a business firm do to mitigate … Continue reading

