Category Archives: Ethics
Betdaq’s financials
[This article by a guest author has been contested, for the reason that information about the bigger picture was missing. It is retired.]
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How confidential is your confidential data in the hands of online payment solutions? Is Moneybookers fully in tune with the law?
All we online gambling players, ploppies, punters, squares, sharps and sharks share the common need of moving our money around as quickly and painlessly as possible. With credit cards not always passing muster, online payment solutions Moneybookers and Neteller are a valuable resource. Also Paypal, which still services a limited gambling market, and Click2Pay, offering [...]
A new blog on InTrade’s prediction markets: Prediction (Market) Insights
Prediction (Market) Insights… by Anonymous
Best wishes to him/her. I hope that he/she will reveal his/her ID in the future. “Wiser Than The Crowd” is the wrong role model in that regard, triple alas.
Addendum:
Thanks to my Deep Throats, I know roughly who “Wiser Than The Crowd” is. He did not lie. He indeed works for a [...]
BetFair’s Mark Davies will advise the UK government on sports betting integrity.
BetFair’s Mark Davies will be one member on the expert panel about sports betting integrity (betting corruption) that the UK government is setting up.
Previously: June 28’s BetFair millionaire story in the News Of The World was total bullshit.
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June 28’s BetFair millionaire story (about Elliott Short) in the News Of The World was total bullshit.
June 28’s BetFair millionaire story (about Elliott Short) in the News Of The World was complete bullshit.
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BetFair:
Recent ‘News of the World’ Article
Betfair Customer Services 29 Jun 13:13
We have been contacted by several customers in relation to an article in Sunday’s News of the World. We would like to make it clear that Betfair was [...]
June 28’s BetFair millionaire story (about Elliott Short) in the News Of The World
June 28’s BetFair millionaire story (about Elliott Short) in the News Of The World has been retracted by the UK tabloid. See why at the bottom of this post.
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By Simon Ward, 28/06/2009
A SACKED 22-year-old trainee City trader today reveals how he won a staggering £20 MILLION in a YEAR . . [...]
WordPress blog hacked: What to do, now?
A nasty hacker has taught a lesson to research scientist David Pennock. The lesson is that our WordPress blogs are not secure, and we should be pro-active in reinforcing their line of defense. David Pennock’s post describing how his blog was hacked is worth reading if you own a self-hosted WordPress blog. Here are the [...]
ROBIN HANSON CENSORS A CONTRADICTOR.
As I undertand it, Robin Hanson has deleted a comment from “Dan” (someone who sided with Eric R. Weinstein), for the simple reason (to be confirmed) that Dan’s comment was 900 words long —much longer than the 500-word limit that our Master Of All Universes has decreeted.
[Here's the Google cached page, but, as I understand [...]
Could prediction markets help solve a crime?
I have been asked many times by Kruijs on HubDub to update people about the prediction markets created about moi. So, here it is. But, first, a little background. Since the beginning of this year, I have adopted a new stance, as you have seen if you follow Midas Oracle. I am much more skeptical [...]
Robin Hanson wants to see only one emerging head —his.
First, Robin Hanson expelled all his co-bloggers (now encapsulated at Less Wrong). And, now, our Master Of All Universes puts that weird comment policy, which basically prevents anyone from stealing his show:
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