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Economies of scale …
Did you know that only twelve voice actors have played over 100 cartoon characters on The Simpsons? (In the future, we wouldn’t mind seeing a graph plotting the amount of words or air time allocated to each character.)
Compare and contrast
You may have heard the U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to decide a set of same-sex marriage cases. (See here and here, for example. You may file this tidbit under “deciding to decide.”) Let’s compare and contrast the constitutional questions presented in these pending gay marriage … Continue reading
New York City Noise Complaints
Check out this data-driven essay in The New Yorker describing the spatial and temporal distribution of noise complaints in New York City. Here is an excerpt of Ben Wellington’s excellent essay: In New York, there are two kinds of noise: the sounds … Continue reading
Spring 2015 Business Law reading list (honors section)
Readings. Our textbook is Richard A Epstein’s Simple Rules for a Complex World. In addition, we will read several classic legal essays this semester, including our all-time favorites “The Path of the Law” by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Federalist Paper #10 (on factions). Law … Continue reading
The Kingdom of Physics
Props to kottke for the pointer. More info about this strange map via Quantum Pontiff.
“Let’s make a (marijuana) deal …”
Check out this Bloomberg Business video “Why Peter Thiel’s fund is investing in marijuana” and Andrew Ross Sorkin’s thoughtful essay in The New York Times exploring the ethics of investing in the marijuana industry. Sorkin reports that “legal marijuana businesses raised $104 million in … Continue reading
Is Riggs v. Palmer a “hard case”?
For many legal scholars, the paradigm or textbook example of a “hard case” in law is Riggs v. Palmer, the infamous “murdering heir” case decided in 1889 by the New York Court of Appeals. The facts of this legendary case would make tabloid and … Continue reading
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Tagged Hard Cases, Prediction Theory of Law, Riggs v. Palmer
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“Did I adequately answer your condescending question?”
We can’t wait to see blackhat, the new Michael Mann film about computer hackers who take down the international banking system. In the meantime, our favorite film about computers and hackers continues to be “The Social Network.” Above is one … Continue reading
From Pakistan to the Kamchatka Peninsula
Alternate title: “The longest straight line you can sail.” Props to Ambamja for the pointer.
prior probability 