I wonder if at any point Facebook will be considered a monopoly in the US, much like how AT&T was considered a monopoly and subsequently broken up. It seems like they have such little competition compared to other similar sites that the grounds for being labeled a monopoly are there. I can see it not happening though because of the influence the company has around the world and the senate’s ignorance of how basic internet and social media technology works.

I wonder if this fiduciary duty is codified in some sort of law, or in a company’s internal policies. My impression is that it’s an unspoken rule and CEOs who violate it are ousted by the board. I think this model of fiduciary duty is oversimplified in practice. Id like to believe that shareholders have some humanity and are not only interested in profit.

I do feel differently about crowd harassment targeting the rich and powerful because they have face much lesser consequences than normal people for doing unethical things. In other words, it's a lot easier for them to get away with doing bad things. Crowd harassment is one of the few ways to get them to acknowledge what they've done when they've made a mistake, since they have so much influence over the systems that should be holding them accountable.

A famous I've heard about was regarding the actor behind Jar Jar Binks from the Star Wars prequels. The character was so unpopular that the actor, who was black, received many death threats and racially motivated insults through his answering machine.

While I knew that Wikipedia was a collaborative platform, I had never thought of it as a crowdsourcing platform. Viewing it from this lens is cool because it puts it in context of other similar crowdsourcing websites.

Crowdsourcing sounds similar to the idea of outsourcing. Outsourcing is when you get other people, often from a different country, to complete a given task.

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if some product is faulty because it’s not designed with you in mind or if it’s just not working. For example when I use faucets in public restrooms they often shut off too quickly. Is that because it doesn’t recognize my skin color or because it’s just bad? This makes it harder to report products that are unintentionally discriminatory.

As a small person, I can relate to this. Especially when I’m shopping for clothes and I see sizes like L, XL, XXL, but not XS :(.

Instead of keeping track of a num_reviews variable, we can also loop over the index and review of each movie simultaneously by using enumerate(movies). This gives us fewer variables to think about and makes the code a bit more elegant and readable.

I learned just recently that you can view what Google infers about you in your Google account, like your relationship status and age. While this information is made available, I don’t like that Google wasn’t transparent that I had access to this info.

A reasonable representation for age would be an integer (how many years old they are), because most people don’t know their exact age as a real number. One thing that makes this tricky is that different cultures count age differently. For example in Korea I believe you are considered to have age “1” the moment you are born. We can deal with this by asking specifically for the whole number of years that passed since they were born.

One major difference between lists in python and arrays is that arrays have fixed length, whereas lists can grow and shrink. This makes python lists more similar to Java’s ArrayList.