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- Valve = the anti Apple — [INTERNAL DOCUMENT]
- Why Starbucks mistreats its customers — [VIDEO]
- The rise of the 1% is good for the economy. — [VIDEO]
- Numenta’s Grok prediction engine — [LINK]
- Pirated movies are more usable. — [INFOGRAPHIC]
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- Steve Jobs, the inventor — [VIDEO]
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- Bain Capital’s Edward Conard on investing and risk taking — [LINK + VIDEO]
- Peter Thiel on the ‘oral test’ in the hiring process — [VIDEO]
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Stock market impacts of major US policy decisions — [CHARTS]
Courtesy of the American Civics Exchange (which will open more widely in the near future), an interactive history of the stock market impact of major policy decisions (legislative, regulatory, monetary, and executive) since 2008. “You can filter by market sector, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged American Civics Exchange, charts, economic charts, economy, Politics, US economy, US politics
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Bansky’s documentary film on public pranks — [VIDEO]
The Antics Roadshow – 2011:
Posted in Art, Films - Movies, Humor
Tagged Art, Bansky, film, films, Humor, jokes, movie, movies, pranks, public pranks, The Antics Roadshow
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Paul Krugman says faked alien invasion would help US economy. — [VIDEO]
Posted in Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged alien invasion, aliens, bizarre, crazy, economy, Paul Krugman, Politics, US economy, US politics
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Nexus One, Google TV, and Honeycomb tablets have all been massive failures, just as bad, if not worse, than Microsoft’s Zune and Surface. — [LINK]
“Google is now copying something even more insidious: the company appears to be turning into a corporation run by a populist vote of its ignorant, idealistic fans. Call it the Tea Party Company.” More. More. More. More. More. More.
Posted in Information Technology, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Android, Google, Google Android, Motorola, smartphones
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Will Paul Hewitt win the Nobel Prize of Economics next year? — [HUMOR]
Our good friend Paul Hewitt claims that he’s discovered the Holy Grail: I am pleased to report that my alternative prediction model appears to be better than prediction markets in most respects! My model was able to match the calibration … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
Tagged Betting, betting markets, chance, coin, event derivative markets, event derivatives, events, Humor, Paul Hewitt, prediction markets, random
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Some hedge funds are making money in this difficult market. — [LINK]
WSJ on Bridgewater, Caxton, John Paulson, Conquest Capital, etc.. If you hit the pay wall, copy the title of the article, then search for it in Google News, and click on it from there.
Could genetically engineered T cells be used as part of a therapy to save Steve Jobs’s life? — [SPECULATION]
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Posted in Research, Science
Tagged Apple, Cancer, cancer cells, health, medecine, Research, Science, Steve Jobs, therapy, treatment
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Extracting billions from Americans — [VIDEO]
Dylan Ratigan’s rant: In his own words:
Posted in Finance, Politics, The Global Economy
Tagged bank, banking, banking extraction, banking politicy, banking system, banks, bought Congress, democracy, Dylan Ratigan, economy, Ethics, Finance, Financial Markets, information, money creation, Politics, printing money, rant, rants, tax, tax evasion, tax extraction, taxes, trade, trade extraction, US Congress, US economy, US politics
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