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Tony Soprano, poster child for fast burn gamblers

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Caveat Bettor

Last night’s new episode was called “Chasing It”, and displayed Tony’s seemingly out-of-control gambling penchant, which coincided with stress with his spouse, his financer, and ultimately in someone’s death (don’t want to spoil it). I can’t find an early post … Continue reading →

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Prediction Markets for Science?

Posted on December 16, 2006 by Chris F. Masse

There’s a set of Robin Hanson slides that are much more interesting than the presentation he gave at Yahoo! Confab. – It’s bigger (67 slides vs. 21) and it covers the prediction market problematic in a more comprehensive way (including … Continue reading →

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