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- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- 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: May 2011
The Great Ephemeralization — [LINK]
Review of Tyler Cowen’s The Great Stagnation. Feel free to comment below.
Thomas Malone gives a bad name to collective intelligence. — [RANT]
Thomas Malone is a smart man, and his institution is a great idea. But I can’t stand that: Solving Climate Change with CrowdSourcing I am fed up with the academics who are overselling the wisdom of crowds. Enough already.
British electors don’t want to change their electoral system. — [PREDICTION MARKET]
Question asked on May 5, 2011 (United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum): At present, the UK uses the “first past the post” system to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the “alternative vote” system be used instead? Here’s BetFair’s … Continue reading
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Market Genesis, Market Liquidity, Market Prices & Probabilities, Politics, Predictions - Forecasts
Tagged AV Referendum, betting markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasts, GB, Great Britain, Politics, prediction markets, Predictions, referendum, UK, UK politics, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum 2011
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The global environment mantra is the elites’s brand-new tool to alienate the people. — [VIDEO]
Posted in Politics
Tagged Brittons, English, environment, global warming, Great Britain, Politics, Prince Charles, United Kingdom
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Apple will eventually be worth more than $1 trillion ($1,000 per share). — [VIDEO]
James Altucher of Formula Capital. [Download this post to watch the video, if your feed reader does not show it to you.]
Posted in Business, Finance, Financial Markets, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Apple, Apple iMac, Apple iOS, Apple IPad, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Apple Mac, Apple Mac OS, Business, Finance, Financial Markets, Formula Capital, investing, investments, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, James Altucher, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, Macs, profits, revenue, sales, stocks
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Andrea Rossi’s cheap nuclear energy generator — [VIDEO]
CANR-LENR (cold fusion) = 1 cent per kWh. Tested. ADDENDUM:
Posted in Inventions & Innovations, Research, Science
Tagged Andrea Rossi, applied research, applied science, business startups, CANR, capital, chemically-assisted nuclear reactions, chemistry, cold fusion, cold fusion reactor, cold fusion reactors, colf-fusion reactors, E-Cat, economic crisis, economic growth, economic stagnation, electrical energy, electricity, electricity plant, energy, Energy Catalyzer, growth, hydrogen, Hydrogen-Nickel cold fusion, innovation, innovations, inventions, investing, investments, LENR, Low Energy Nuclear Reaction, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactor, Ni-H cold fusion, nickel, nuclear energy, physicists, physics, power, power plant, power production, Research, Science, startups, weak force nuclear reactions
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An Analysis of the Accuracy of Forecasts in the Political Media — [PAPER]
An Analysis of the Accuracy of Forecasts in the Political Media – PDF file.
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Forecasting (Science & Practice), Journalism, Prediction Post-Mortem
Tagged columnists, columns, elites, forecasting, forecasts, Journalism, journalists, magazines, Media, news media, newspapers, opinion, opinion makers, politicians, Politics, predicting, Predictions, pundits, US politics
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