Monthly Archives: March 2011

A good prank in a museum — [VIDEO]

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On the Interpretation of Prediction Market Data – REDUX — [ANALYSIS]

Jason Ruspini: If you have varying account sizes, you know right away the price isn’t an evenly weighted average of beliefs, but I don’t see a huge problem with what Nate Silver wrote given his purposes. He just said they … Continue reading

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The United States of America is broke. – [VIDEO]

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Islam threatens free speech in Europe. — [VIDEO]

Islam et menaces sur la liberté d'expressionenvoyé par enquete-debat. – L'actualité du moment en vidéo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

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On the Interpretation of Prediction Market Data – [ANALYSIS]

Rajiv Sethi.

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Nassim Taleb on deficits – [VIDEO]

http://www.charlierose.com/view/content/11516

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Galloping North-American Buffalo – [IMAGES]

A bison hunt depicted by George Catlin: A pile of bison skulls in the 1870s:

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Don’t buy the Motorola Xoom: It is clunky. – [REVIEW]

“Don’t buy the Xoom unless you really, really don’t like Apple products.” More here.

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Getting rid of inequality = Getting rid of risks and startups – [VIDEO]

Paul Graham (Y Combinator): Previous attempts to hack the connection between wealth and power have aimed mainly at eliminating economic inequality. They’ve all ended in disaster, because economic inequality is closely related to risk: you can’t eliminate inequality without eliminating … Continue reading

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Why the New Jersey governor vetoed the Internet gambling bill – [REPORT]

“New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have made his state the first in the U.S. to re-introduce online gambling. But he also suggested the state Legislature could revive the effort by asking voters to approve the … Continue reading

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