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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: December 2010
What is science? Are science and rationality the same thing? If science was something new, what sort of a new thing was science? – [VIDEO]
Michael Vassar – From global warming to evolution :
Posted in History, Inventions & Innovations, Science
Tagged hypothesis, Michael Vassar, rationality, Science, scientific approach, technology
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Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and all the “Giving Pledge” billionaires, should rather do what Peter Thiel does –go investing their cash and/or (liquidated) fortune in futuristic projects. – [VIDEO]
This morning, I wrote that I disaprove Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge operation, because I rather favor billionaires investing in young startups lead by visionaries. Well, just after the publication of that post, I stumbled on the “Audacious … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Finance, Inventions & Innovations, Philanthropy, Research
Tagged Bill Gates, billionaires, capital, Chris Wood, Christine Peterson, enterprise, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, entreprises, extensive technologies, Foresight Institute, Fortune, funders, funding, giving, Giving Pledge, innovation, innovators, intensive technologies, inventions, investing, investments, Mike Kope, millionaires, Money, Neil Jacobstein, Patri Friedman, Peter Diamandis, Peter Thiel, Philanthropy, Ray Kurzweil, Santa Fe Institute, Seasteading Institute, SENS Foundation, Singularity University, startups, Thiel Foundation, Warren Buffett, wealth, X PRIZE Foundation
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Technology Review publishes an uncritical article on collective forecasting used in business. – {CrowdCast}
How Bets Among Employees Can Guide a Company’s Future – Internal prediction markets enable colleagues to wager on the fate of crucial projects and the success of products in the pipeline. – Technology Review
Posted in Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchanges & Markets
Tagged betting markets, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, corporate prediction markets, CrowdCast, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, internal prediction markets, prediction markets, private prediction markets
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Why I am against those billionaires pledging to “give away” the majority of their wealth
Philanthropy has a low ROI. They should rather put their money in a VC fund, and invest it in promising ventures, lead by visionaries. Addendum: WSJ UPDATE: See Peter Thiel’s “Audacious Optimism” event.
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Philanthropy
Tagged Bill Gates, billionaires, capital, Fortune, giving, Giving Pledge, investing, investments, millionaires, Money, Philanthropy, Warren Buffett, wealth
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Why you haven’t seen nothing yet when it comes to iOS games
Graeme Devine: When I first got an iPad, I was sold on it being the ultimate piece of science fiction technology for gaming. I think it is the most interesting new technology product I’ve worked on in years and I … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Apple, Apple iOS, Apple IPad, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch, entertaining, Entertainment, games, gaming, Information Technology, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, technologies, touch screen, touch technologies, user interface
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Simon Johnson: The fiscal deal is irresponsible. – [VIDEO]
His Wikipedia entry. His (excellent) blog. Russ Roberts
Posted in Finance, Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged Economics, economy, fiscal policy, Politics, Simon Johnson, tax cuts, taxes, United States Of America, US economy, US government, US politics
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The problem that is Google
Putting aside Google Search, which is awesome, the symptom is: – Not enough marketing. Google Wave is the textbook case. It was technically brilliant, but incomprehensible for the average computer user. – Too much marketing. Google Chrome OS is officially … Continue reading
MediCare cheats the young. – MediCare is the biggest Ponzi scheme. – [VIDEO]
Posted in Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged John Stossel, medecine, Medical Doctors, MediCare, Politics, socialized medecine, US government, US politics
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Why you should short-sell RIM
Its CEO is a patented, big fat idiot. The RIM board should convene and send him flipping burgers somewhere else. Oust. UPDATE: Good piece on RIM and BlackBerry.
Posted in Business, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged BlackBerry, PlayBook, Playbook OS, RIM, stock market, stocks, Torch
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