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Very Interesting, though I still wonder if intelligence agencies can out perform betting markets (at least on questions with enough interest to be able to generate a liquid price).…

wow I read the original post and now this. Though I disagree with (this post's) author on some points, he is correct that the the regulation is mostly reasonable. If it was up to m…

I often disagree with Jeff Sachs, but I find his argument here highly persuasive. - There is no reason the US should be giving away IP for free - The US Government should use its p…

wow that graph at the end. wonder if node is in the midst of a "language bubble".

This is essentially a payday loan for app developers, fairly low risk since they can see clear sayed numbers from itunes/google play. Smart Idea.

this is really nothing other than very straight forward "Insurance". In the long run, the optimists almost always win. Keeping money sitting idle and constantly rolling short dated…

These numbers are way off. like by an order of magnitude.

Though this is an interesting thought experiment, the author misses one key point: Advertising has historically only been about 1% of GDP and there is nothing to suggest that it wi…

Something like this could be extremely valuable inside an organization. A lot of very valuable knowledge is locked up by employees with no incentive to reveal it.

People have been singing this song for quite some time now, the question is still: can they do it? I'm yet to see this mythical Uber Logistics play, and their ancillary products, R…

this would be more useful if it had some subjective measures as well like "build quality" Galaxy s6 comes up as most similar to the droid turbo which seems fairly off base to me. C…

I'm currently grandfathered on a Verizon Unlimited Data Plan. Finally thinking about switching to T-Mobile since I'm tired of having to play games to get new devices. What is every…

Israel (obv a different scale than china) has recently also experienced a big push toward desal. What's interesting is there's a moore's law type of effect at play here, desal keep…

I hope this doesn't mean what it sounds like: "The school district spokesperson said that "our information technology department is working to get all our passwords centralized."

very handy!

On an unrelated note, what does everybody think about the design language Topolsky brought to Bloomberg? I'm torn, on the one hand it's "trendy" on the other hand, it looks like a …

this is going to change my life, thank you.

nice idea, feels almost like notational velocity for the web

"presented by renaissance hotels" -- didn't know medium was already experimenting with revenue sources. I wonder how lucrative this type of native ad is for them.

there's no reason we can't have both. Uber can always have an option to disable ads if the user isn't interested in saving money.