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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Help me beating David Pennock
Here is the problematic: – Midas Oracle is updated many times a day, with interesting stuff about prediction markets, collective forecasting, and other topics. In all logic, the number of Midas Oracle feed subscribers is increasing slowly but regularly. – … Continue reading
This month, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider what can be patented.
Will economist Robin Hanson be sent to D.C. to testify against the “business method” patents and other crazy patents? “Today, we benefit from inventions made possible through highly collaborative and interconnected technologies. Many of the products that consumers demand are … Continue reading
Posted in Inventions & Innovations, Regulations
Tagged business method patents, innovations, laws, patents, Regulations, U.S. Supreme Court
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2 Japanese busted with $134 *BILLION* in US Bonds at Swiss border
Guardia di Finanza – Sequestrati a Chiasso titoli USA per novantasei miliardi di euro Wiki News Daily Kos The Market Ticker investigates. The contraband securities valued at 134 billion U.S. dollars are apparently real. The latest news… On that date … Continue reading
Adam Siegel looks like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Posted in Humor, People
Tagged Adam Siegel, Humor, inkling markets, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nate Kontny, Nathan Kontny
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Judging things or people based on the vague notion of *intent*…
I am totally against determining a “primary purpose” of prediction markets. It is muddy waters, and I don’t follow some people on that. Addendum: The discussion about (bad) intent in the field of search engine optimization
Get your FaceBook user name. –> www.facebook.com/username/
Get your FaceBook user name: http://www.facebook.com/username/ http://www.facebook.com/chrisfmasse Grab your vanity URL at FaceBook.
Posted in Information Technology
Tagged FaceBook, names, user names, usernames, vanity URLs
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBSG): No more gambling and betting transactions in The Netherlands and Switzerland.
Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBSG): No more gambling and betting transactions in The Netherlands and Switzerland. Via Medemi
Prediction Markets = Betting Markets = Event Derivative Markets
Prediction Markets = Betting Markets = Event Derivative Markets They don’t agree, but I don’t care. I am right, and they are wrong.
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Explainers
Tagged betting markets, event derivative markets, prediction markets
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