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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: June 2011
Once again, Robin Hanson exaggerates the usefulness of the prediction markets. — [ANALYSIS]
InTrade’s prediction markets on the recent Arab revolutions didn’t bring anything interesting in our understanding of the Middle East. Robin Hanson’s insistence is absurd.
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Exchanges & Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Prediction Post-Mortem
Tagged Algeria, Arab countries, Arabs, Bahrain, bets, Betting, betting markets, bettors, Egypt, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasting, forecasts, InTrade, Libya, Politics, predicting, prediction markets, Predictions, Robin Hanson, traders, trading, Tunisia, world politcs, Yemen
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BetFair loses CEO, buys back shares… and increases premium charges on big traders. — [LINK]
Guardian: Share buybacks are a popular tactic for mature businesses and are typically employed when companies cannot think of efficient ways of deploying spare cash. However, Betfair was sold to investors in October as a company that had strong growth … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets, Finance, Market Transaction Costs
Tagged BetFair, BetFair Premium Charge, BetFair Premium Charges, BetFair's premium charge, BetFair's premium charges, betting exchanges, charges, derivatives, event derivative markets, event derivatives, fees, Finance, futures, LMAX, prediction markets, shares, stock market, stocks, The Sporting Exchange
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Iceland shows defaulters are forgiven. — [LINK]
Daniel Gross. His twitter.
Posted in Finance, Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged Daniel Gross, debt, economy, Iceland, Iceland economy, Icelanders, public debt
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Internet “non-gambling” in D.C. — [LINK]
Nelson Rose.
Posted in Betting, Gambling, Regulations
Tagged Betting, Gambling, Internet betting, laws, Nelson Rose, non-gambling, Regulations
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The Five Dysfunctions of Leadership — [BOOK]
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Posted in Business Administration, Individual Intelligence - Anti Consensus, Philosophy, Resources - References
Tagged Business, Business Administration, groups, leadership, management, Patrick Lencioni, Psychology, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Five Dysfunctions of Leadership
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Google+ is just another Google Wave: Cool, but too complex. — [LINK]
Evaluation. Conclusion.
Posted in Inventions & Innovations
Tagged connections, Google, Google Wave, networking, People, social connections, social networking, usability
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Terry Gilliam’s Lost in La Mancha — [VIDEO]
Lost in La Mancha @Wikipedia.
Posted in Films - Movies, Humor
Tagged film, films, History, Humor, Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp, Keith Fulton y Louis Pepe, Lost in La Mancha, movie, movies, Phil Patterson, Terry Gilliam, Tony Grisoni
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Bloomberg TV profiles Charles and David Koch. — [VIDEO]
Bloomberg TV profiles Charles and David Koch.
Posted in Business, People, Philanthropy, Politics
Tagged Bloomberg, Bloomberg TV, CATO, Cato Institute, Charles Koch, David Koch, Freedom, libertarianism, libertarians, liberty, Politics, Tea Party, US politics
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Cold fusion scientist publishes harsh criticism of Andrea Rossi’s approach. — [VIDEO + LINK]
- Steven B. Krivit’s report. He criticizes Andrea Rossi, but also says he will have interesting news about another Italian team working on cold fusion (LENR).
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, 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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