Monthly Archives: February 2009

Linda Rebrovick + Brad Wilson + Robin Hanson + Ken Kittlitz + David Perry = Consensus Point

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Science Blogs

Science Blogs A network of high-quality blogs about science. The blogs are organized as folders, not sub-domains. Which allows each blog to benefit from the PR8 of the domain. The downside is that Google gets to cite them only 2 … Continue reading

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Where is the link, David Perry?

He blogs —but forgets to insert the link to the Information Week story. UPDATE: Is that what you wanted to link to? PDF file

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A combinatorial prediction market is one where users can construct their own bets by mixing and matching options in myriad ways

- either the bids are combinatorial (YooPick); – or the outcomes are combinatorial. – - either the market operator acts as an auctioneer; [*] – or he acts as an automated market maker. – [*] Jason, does this mean that … Continue reading

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The Cook Doctrine at Apple

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The Ultimate Taboo — Part II

Most of the prediction market software vendors believe that the business benefits of enterprise prediction markets are now substantiated, although not sufficiently publicized. The reality check is that, while there has been interest in pilot programs, the executives and managers … Continue reading

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The Ultimate Taboo

Robin Hanson: I’ve been looking for six years now, and will continue for another sixty years, if necessary. What if… (I know it is a big taboo to question the logic of Our Master Of The Universe)… but… what if … Continue reading

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Dependency —not

Here is a couple of ideas for Sean Park, who is just emerging from an Afghan cave: – Buy the brand-new Apple Macintosh MacBook Pro 17″ —I’ll get mine in 2 weeks. – Get used to connect to the Internet … Continue reading

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TERMINATED: InTrade ditch their external “bloggers”.

Other than John Delaney, no more external “bloggers” on the frontpage of InTrade. – - The writings of the naive persons (e.g., Jason Ruspini, Koleman Strumpf) who wrote for InTrade for free have now disappeared into cyberspace. -

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Directory listing of BetFair price files

Directory listing of BetFair price files

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