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Dropping the “the” from Facebook (Lesson 14)
“In fact, the only thing that really bothered [Sean Parker] about the site was the ‘the’ in the name. It wasn’t necessary. He hated unnecessary things.” –Excerpt from Chapter 22 of Accidental Billionaires. In “The Social Network” (the movie version … Continue reading
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Falsification, the Coase theorem, and the Apple iPhone case
Broadly speaking, the Coase theorem is a famous proposition from law and economics that postulates that conflicting parties will resolve their dispute by striking a mutually beneficial bargain when property rights are well-defined and when the costs of transacting are … Continue reading
Property rights and the Apple iPhone case
What do you think of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s decision to fight a court order requiring Apple to decrypt an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook, the terrorist who massacred 14 innocent people late last year? Professor Orin Kerr has written … Continue reading
“Windows 1.0”
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the launching of Windows 1.0, Tom Warren–a self-described “resident Microsoft expert”–has compiled a complete “visual history” of Microsoft’s popular operating system for personal computers. (Check out Warren’s work here, via The Verge.) This … Continue reading
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“Facebook Ethics” (A/B testing edition)
Thus far this semester, we have been reading about the historic events that occurred in Harvard College in late 2003-early 2004 and in Silicon Valley during the summer 2004 leading up to the launching and subsequent explosive growth of Facebook (or “thefacebook,” as … Continue reading
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Good or bad idea? (“I’m feeling lucky”–Google car edition)
Hat tip: Tonto3.
prior probability 