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- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
- Why Samsung is no Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney @ Bain Capital — [VIDEO]
- Central banks should set up prediction markets. — [LINK]
- Max Keiser on NADEX — [VIDEO]
- New Hampshire prediction markets screwed up political forecasting in 2008. Will they be right this time? — [CHARTS]
- The real reasons why prediction markets are accurate. — [LINK]
- Much better than a bike… and more affordable than a SegWay… –> The Me-Mover — [VIDEO]
- InTrade is not predictive, says notable financial journalist. — [SCREENSHOT]
- Drudge links directly to InTrade prediction markets, bypassing journalos. — [SCREENSHOT]
- BetFair’s glitch ruins a set of £23m prediction markets. — [LINKS]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Bo Cowgill decamps from Google.
You don’t care, and you don’t need to know this: – Bo Cowgill has quit Google and is now pursuing a PhD at Berkeley. You can now return to your normal activity: working, trading, and blogging. UPDATE: Bo Cowgill: “I … Continue reading
Posted in People
Tagged Bo Cowgill, enterprise prediction markets, Google, prediction markets
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Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show
Super Freakonomics: Steve Levitt on Jon Stewart’s show (The Daily Show) Download this post to watch the embedded video —if your feed reader does not show it to you. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Science
Tagged climate change, climate science, Earth, Earth science, Economics, environmentalists, geo-engineering, geoengineering, global warming, Humor, Jon Stewart, Planet Earth, Science, social engineering, Steve Levitt, Super Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics, The Daily Show
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Cash For Clunkers: US taxpayers paid $24,000 per car
Cash For Clunkers: US taxpayers paid $24,000 per car. Embedded video from CNNMoney.com Video Download this post to see the embedded video above —if your feed reader does not show it to you.
Posted in Business, Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged auto sales, car sales, cars, Cash For Clunkers, Edmunds, Ford, General Motors, United States Of America, US government, US taxpayers
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Google OS NetBook in 2010 —with HTML5 local caching for offline use
Google CEO Eric Schmidt at Gartner Orlando 2009:
Why you should get rid of Google Groups
Google Groups is completely rotten to the core. You should get rid of Google Groups.
Any sane boss should fire an employee who is betting at work.
Posted in Business, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged Adam Siegel, betting at work, betting markets, Collective Forecasting, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, inkling markets, internal prediction markets, prediction markets, private prediction markets, trading at work
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Richard Feynman: Disrespect for Authority
Posted in Philosophy, Psychology
Tagged Philosophy, physics, Richard Feynman, Science
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French Internet élites rail against the new anti-piracy law just voted by the French Congress.
“Avec cette loi [Hadopi], et celles qui la suivront, la France est en passe de rejoindre le Pakistan, l’Iran, la Chine et de bien d’autres régimes autoritaires qui redoutent la transparence, et occultent la vérité.“ Best wishes to Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged France, Hadopi, Jérôme Bourreau-Guggenheim, Numérama, The Internet
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