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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
Open Internet Coalition –> Net Neutrality
http://www.openinternetcoalition.org/ Their latest effort to lobby the FCC.
Posted in The Internet
Tagged F.C.C., Federal Communications Commission, Google, Open Internet Coalition, The Internet
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Why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police
Don’t Talk to Cops.
Google’s Street View trike
http://www.google.com/trike
Libertarians will love this movie. — Pirate Radio
Pirate Radio
Health Care Reform — Florida Governor Charlie Crist & California Attorney General Jerry Brown
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Prices & Probabilities, News, Politics
Tagged betting markets, Charlie Crist, event derivative markets, health care reform, InTrade, Jerry Brown, Politics, prediction markets, United States Of America, US government, US health care reform, US politics
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PredictionBook
PredictionBook is a new prediction tracking site, as described at LessWrong, which: lets you make predictions and then track your calibration – see whether things you assigned a 70% probability happen 7 times out of 10. The major challenge with … Continue reading
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman bends Steve Levitt’s ear.
Paul Krugman: And that’s not acceptable. This is a serious issue. We’re not talking about the ethics of sumo wrestling here; we’re talking, quite possibly, about the fate of civilization. It’s not a place to play snarky, contrarian games.
What Do Al Gore and Mount Pinatubo Have in Common?
Super Freakonomics — Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner – (co-authors of Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics) http://delong.typepad.com/files/superfreakonomics-chapter-5.pdf UPDATE: Steve Dubner + Andrew Gelman + Brad DeLong Next: Ken Caldeira about how his work was misrepresented in SuperFreakonomics —as well as … Continue reading