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Is the USA less free than Putin’s Russia or Communist China?
Read the full report by Ernest Drucker here (pp. 61-69).
What are Fractals and why should I care?
Originally posted on George Dallas:
Fractal geometry is a field of maths born in the 1970’s and mainly developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. If you’ve already heard of fractals, you’ve probably seen the picture below. It’s called the Mandelbrot Set and is…
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Is Google (potentially) more evil than the NSA?
Whoever wrote this blog entry seems to think so. But don’t Internet users knowingly and voluntarily consent to Google’s privacy policy when we sign up for Gmail? Or do Google’s terms of service constitute a tortious “invasion of privacy” under the common law? (hat tip: digg) … Continue reading
Torts II checklist
This semester we taught Torts II and studied various theories of legal liability, such as vicarious liability, strict liability, products liability, rescue (the general no-duty rule and exceptions to the rule), the Federal Tort Claims Act (federal government liability), defamation, … Continue reading
If Steve Jobs were alive today, would he be in jail?
That is the provocative question raised in this report by James B. Stewart in today’s New York Times. The Times’ report notes that Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, was the “driving force” in a conspiracy to prevent competitors from poaching Apple employees, a … Continue reading
Korea–Korea
That is the title of this photographic exploration of a divided country. From the book’s dust jacket: In 2006, the German architecture photographer Dieter Leistner had both the opportunity and official permission to photograph public spaces in Pyongyang. His images … Continue reading
Google Car Update
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Statutory interpretation: is a fish a “tangible object”?
It’s a federal crime to “knowingly alter, destroy, mutilate, conceal, cover up, falsify, or make a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object” with the intent of impeding or obstructing a federal investigation (italics added). But does this … Continue reading
Why are airline boarding procedures so inefficient?
Here is one hypothesis: Because consumers want and value assigned seats. Overhead bin space is scarce as well, and airlines allocate that to their best customers through early boarding. In other words, there are competing business objectives. It turns out that … Continue reading
prior probability 