The List Of The Last 200 Midas Oracle Posts

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• Socially valuable betting (based on accountable predictions) has long been legal in America, professor Hanson. — [AWARENESS]
• ‘For Liberty’, the Ron Paul film — [VIDEO]
• InTrade prediction markets on US debt ceiling — [CHARTS]
• Ron Paul: “Is gold money?” –> Ben Bernanke: “No. It’s precious metal. It’s an asset.” –> Ron Paul: “Why do central banks hold it?” –> Ben Bernanke: “Long-term tradition.” — [VIDEO]
• After years of pretending being a prediction market consultant, Robin Hanson finally confesses nobody has ever cared about his stuff. — [LINK]
• Matt Taibbi vs. Goldman Sachs — [VIDEO]
• Our dwindling food variety — [CHART]
• That’s a tough one… How would you have answered? — [POLL]
• The Truth About Democracy — [VIDEO]
• Ex-NewsFutures Emile Servan-Schreiber’s father tried (unsuccessfully) to get François Mitterrand to grant French citizenship to Steve Jobs. — [SCOOP]
• How magicians use psychological principles to create magic — [VIDEO]
• Innovating with pollens — [VIDEO]
• “What’s interesting is that Apple is often credited with pioneering categories that they didn’t originate, but perfected.” — [LINK]
• How labels screw musicians — [VIDEO]
• Is there a sixth sense? — [VIDEO]
• The crisis of meaning of the prediction markets — [HYPE CYCLE]
• How Apple manages its suppliers of electronics — [ANALYSIS]
• Samsung’s electronic campus is the size of a small city. — [VIDEO]
• US worse than Greece? — [VIDEO]
• No that many InTrade traders paid tribute to CEO John Delaney (whose corps remains on Mount Everest). — [LINK]
• Ex-HSX Max Keiser speaks to lawyers in Athens, Greece, about lawsuits (and hangings) against Goldman Sachs. — [VIDEO]
• Jean-Michel Jarre’s 2011 concert at Monaco was the most innovative gig on Earth (lasers, synchronized fireworks, colored lightning on white smokes, etc.). — [VIDEO]
• Collaborate to Innovate — [VIDEO]
• Defkalion is the company that will produce energy using Andrea Rossi’s Ni-H cold fusion technology (LENR, E-Cat). — [VIDEO]
• Once again, Robin Hanson exaggerates the usefulness of the prediction markets. — [ANALYSIS]
• BetFair loses CEO, buys back shares… and increases premium charges on big traders. — [LINK]
• Iceland shows defaulters are forgiven. — [LINK]
• Why does InTrade offer gold contracts to US customers when they signed a 2005 agreement with the CFTC not to offer commodity options to US customers? — [DOCUMENT]
• Internet “non-gambling” in D.C. — [LINK]
• The Five Dysfunctions of Leadership — [BOOK]
• Google+ is just another Google Wave: Cool, but too complex. — [LINK]
• Terry Gilliam’s Lost in La Mancha — [VIDEO]
• Bloomberg TV profiles Charles and David Koch. — [VIDEO]
• Cold fusion scientist publishes harsh criticism of Andrea Rossi’s approach. — [VIDEO + LINK]
• Mike Giberson is so obsessed with shale gas that he unconsciously refuses to see the Ni-H cold fusion revolution. — [LINK]
• Robin Hanson’s friend (from the NASA era) wants to mine the Moon. — [VIDEO]
• Edward Bernays: Propaganda — [VIDEO]
• The Greek crisis is the crisis of the Euro. — [VIDEO]
• The wreck that is Google — [LINK]
• What would you tell a generation living 1,000 years from now about the life you’ve lived and the lessons you’ve learned? — [VIDEO]
• EuroCopter X3: High-speed winged helicopter — [VIDEO]
• Will BetFair CEO David Yu exit? — [LINK]
• Energy-efficient water electrolysis could open the way to mass produce hydrogen at a cheap cost, and reduce global dependence on fossil energy like oil and natural gas. — [VIDEO]
• Steve Keen about the debt crisis and Minsky’s moment — [VIDEO]
• There is no great stagnation, professor Cowen. — [LINK]
• List of useful iPhone / iPad apps — [LINK]
• “Rude and denigrating” free speech against Islam, “on the edge of what is allowed”, is officially allowed in Holland (the Netherlands). — [NEWS + VIDEO]
• Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson (Emeritus Professor of Physics at Cambridge University) is highly interested in Andrea Rossi’s Ni+H nuclear reactor (the E-Cat). — [VIDEO]
• By printing money, the earnings power of the proletariat is diminishing, while the assets held by the wealthy are going up. And at the same time, the wealthy are outsourcing more and more production to China, to further rob the masses. — [VIDEO]
• Bruce Bartlett on taxes — [VIDEO]
• FreedomFest, Las Vegas — July 14 to July 16 — [EVENT]
• American citizens and its universities have experienced an ivy-laden ivory tower for the past half century. Students, however, can no longer assume that a four year degree will be the golden ticket to a good job in a global economy that cares little for their social networking skills and more about what their labor is worth on the global marketplace. — [LINK]
• Apple’s Genius Bar: full loyalty, no negativity — [SECRET DOCUMENTS]
• Many students believe that it is moral to confiscate money from hard-working Americans and entrepreneurs and give it to those who didn’t earn it, yet don’t support the same philosophy when it is applied to their GPA scores. — [VIDEO]
• Emile Servan-Schreiber (of NewsFutures fame) says the last goodbye to his bro (an anti-cancer food expert who is fighting brain cancer, again). — [VIDEO]
• CONFIRMATION: John Delaney’s behavior was irrational. — [LINK]
• Building a dinosaur from a chicken — [VIDEO]
• Norman Gary Finkelstein makes sense. — [VIDEO]
• Lawrence O’Donnell pulverizes Donald Trump into fine particles, once again. — [VIDEO]
• How to identify promising startup companies — [VIDEO]
• IMPRESSIVE: KickStarter is now used to start up big projects. — [VIDEO]
• MoneyBall — [VIDEO]
• How do you protect a good idea? — [VIDEO]
• Dominique Strauss-Khan’s donkey — [HUMOR]
• Political prediction markets are good for your mental health. — [LINK]
• Anti-cancer food expert David Servan-Schreiber is fighting brain cancer, again. — [LINK]
• COLD FUSION: Brian Ahern is getting some success replicating Rossi and Focardi. — [LINK]
• Bubble phases – (e.g., tulip mania, dot-com bubble, prediction market bubble) — [CHART]
• There is no great stagnation, professor Cowen. — [VIDEO]
• FORECASTING THE ECONOMY: Keynesian Economics vs. Austrian Economics — [VIDEO]
• There is no great stagnation, professor Cowen. — [NEW TECH]
• Peter Thiel @ Bilderberg 2011 — [LISTING]
• Remote-controled helicopter, in a sphere — [VIDEO]
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams — [VIDEO]
• Freedom ranking of US states — [MAP]
• Saving ocean fisheries with property rights — [VIDEO]
• Steve Jobs at Apple’s WWDC 2011 — [VIDEO]
• Steve Blank: Of course, we are in a bubble, but it’s not a bad thing. — [VIDEO]
• Machine learning is using a computer to recognize patterns in data, to then make predictions about new data, based the patterned recognized or learned from prior chosen training dataset. — [LINK]
• Let’s build a portable nuclear reactor, folks. {*} — [VIDEO]
• The Greeks sacrificed on the altar of the Euro? — [VIDEO]
• The hotel maids are leading the revolt against the world oligarchy. — [VIDEO]
• Nuclear energy is finished. Done. — [VIDEO]
• GroupOn is a lemon. — [LINKS]
• The US Federal Reserve “does not own any gold at all.” … “What appears on our balance sheet is gold certificates.” … — [VIDEO]
• Who said the French press does not publish anything about the French politicians’ sex life? — [DOCUMENT]
• The Belo Monte dam project in the Amazon rainforest has been OK’ed. — [VIDEO]
• Midas Oracle’s stats about John Delaney’s death. — [ANALYTICS]
• NASA’s Langley Research Center scientists are investigating low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), which is sometimes labeled “cold fusion”. — [PODCAST]
• The BetFair exodus continues. — [LINK]
• Unbound, a kind of KickStarter for books (or e-books) — [VIDEO]
• To get news on the E-cat, come here on Midas Oracle. To get news on CFTC rulings, go to Knowledge Problem. — [IRONY]
• John Delaney Obituary — [LINKS]
• Wanna leave for Silicon Valley? — [VIDEO]
• 6 days later, the NYT on John Delaney’s death. — [NEWS]
• Tyler Cowen on the technology-based economic expansion — [VIDEO]
• Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in an earthquake that struck the city of L’Aquila on 6 April 2009. — [NEWS]
• Peter Thiel gives $100k to twenty-something kids just out of college. — [NEWS]
• Steven Levy is interviewed by Matt Cutts at GooglePlex in Mountain View. — [VIDEO]
• Psychologist and economist George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University, was an avid mountain climber “until I had kids and couldn’t tolerate the risk.” — [TAKEAWAYS]
• InTrade CEO John Delaney (42) died on May 21, 2011, while climbing Mount Everest, and his body will remain there. — [OBITUARY]
• Meet the masters of collective intelligence. — [VIDEO]
• Rand Paul makes sense everytime he speaks. — [VIDEO]
• BetFair employees believe that David Yu and the other top brass are a bunch of schmucks who are incapable of delivering leadership. — [NEWS]
• Political Forecasting by Pundits — [VIDEO]
• Eurocopter – X3 Hybrid Helicopter Demonstrator Achieving To Exceed 220 Knots (407 Km/h)
• Tyler Cowen, proven wrong on PBS? — [VIDEO]
• FaceBook acts as a de facto information gathering source for US intelligence agencies such as NSA, CIA and FBI. — [VIDEO]
• Emmanuel Todd predicted the Arab Spring by looking at demo data. — [VIDEO IN FRENCH]
• Bernard Henry-Lévy is a pretentious clown who is 10 times the national embarrassment to France than Dominique Strauss-Kahn ever is. — [RANT]
• InTrade floats Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s life. — [PREDICTION MARKET]
• Cold fusion reactors are coming to America, so US energy economists (like Michael Giberson) cannot ignore LENR anymore. — [NEWS]
• Conspicacy theory (involving credit cards) about coffee futures — [VIDEO]
• The right way to deal with invaders — [AUSSIE RULES]
• Thomas Malone’s collective intelligence is an abyssal hodgepodge… “à la Prévert”. — [LINK]
• Friday, the 13th — [HUMOR]
• The 2009 takedown of Jim Cramer by John Stewart — [VIDEO]
• Why accountants don’t run start-ups — [VIDEO]
• Google Prediction API gives you access to Google’s sophisticated machine learning algorithms to analyze a wide range of data and provide predictions for likely outcomes. — [FORECASTING TECH]
• Frac gas exploitation pollutes drinking water. — [PAPER]
• Is research scientist David Pennock easily impressed? — [TEST IT FOR YOURSELF]
• Nate Silver criticizes InTrade for its short-lived Obama bounce following Bin Laden’s assassination. — [CHART]
• The science of the Nickel-Hydrogen cold fusion reactor — [VIDEO]
• The ‘carrot and stick’ approach has been oversold. — [VIDEO]
• InTrade’s prediction markets on secretive events are just an Irish scam. — [ANALYSIS]
• InTrade on the elimination of Osama Bin Laden — [ANALYSIS]
• Grandson of famed economist Milton Friedman is sued for downloading porn over the Internet. — [LINK]
• Andrea Rossi’s E-Cat is a cold fusion reactor able to convert few grams of nickel powder and a small amount of high pressure hydrogen into heat for many months. — [VIDEO]
• Tyler Cowen’s The Great Stagnation — [REVIEW]
• The Great Ephemeralization — [LINK]
• Thomas Malone gives a bad name to collective intelligence. — [RANT]
• InTrade was not able to predict the elimination of Osama Bin Laden. — [PREDICTION POST-MORTEM]
• British electors don’t want to change their electoral system. — [PREDICTION MARKET]
• The global environment mantra is the elites’s brand-new tool to alienate the people. — [VIDEO]
• The Bridge To No-Where — [PICTURE]
• Apple will eventually be worth more than $1 trillion ($1,000 per share). — [VIDEO]
• Andrea Rossi’s cheap nuclear energy generator — [VIDEO]
• An Analysis of the Accuracy of Forecasts in the Political Media — [PAPER]
• We were lied to, of course. — [LINK]
• QualiQuanti’s Daniel Bô misunderstands collective intelligence. — [REBUTTAL]
• Daryl Bem’s retrocausality paper discussed at Harvard — [VIDEO]
• Why you should never trust John Battelle’s opinion on tech — [PREDICTION POST-MORTEM]
• U.S. Supreme Court Prediction Market — [PAPER]
• Cold Fusion Prediction Markets — [HISTORY]
• Andrea Rossi’s cold fusion reactor (E-cat) — [LINKS]
• Yacouba Sawadogo, the man who stopped the desert — [VIDEO]
• On The Use of Prediction Markets in Information Security (CIA’s In-Q-Tel) — [LINK]
• Cantor Gaming’s betting tablet shall stay in Las Vegas. — [REVIEW]
• Robin Hanson’s couple vs. Justin Wolfers’ s couple — [CONTRAST]
• Energy Catalyzer (E-cat) = a cold fusion reactor that produces energy inputting hydrogen and nickel (and outputting copper) — [NEW TECH]
• China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016. — [CHART]
• Larry Page’s Google — [VIDEO]
• Apple is *NOT* collecting your iPhone’s geo data. — [DEBUNKING]
• The prediction market ideology still lives on. — [COMMENT]
• A city that outsources everything (but police and fire service) — [VIDEO]
• Tax Me If You Can – (Tax Havens) — [VIDEO]
• Bryan Caplan on kids and parenting — [VIDEO]
• Wall Street does not give credit to Google for Android. — [CHARTS]
• Paul Allen on 60 Minutes — [VIDEO]
• Prediction markets shall stay dwarf. — [APPLIED LOGIC]
• David Pennock agrees that snubbing BetFair was a mistake. — [COMMENT]
• Could the FBI seize InTrade’s domain name and kill the real-money prediction markets? — [SOLUTION]
• Should the Goldman Sachs people be sent behind bars? — [VIDEO]
• Did the prediction market industry fail because of the lack of usability of the prediction markets? — [REBUTTAL]
• Regulators will become co-opted by a conflict of interest … AND/OR … Regulators are ignorant of the institutions they are charged with controlling. — [VIDEO]
• Why you should stay away from Android — [VIDEO]
• CIA now know InTrade’s prediction markets were not useful in assessing Fukushima. — [SCREENSHOT]
• David Pennock on the state of the prediction market industry — [LINK]
• SecondMarket and SharesPost — [LINK]
• Media Predict Real-Money — [LINK]
• The difference between making sense of things and predicting things is where we run into trouble. — [LINK]
• InTrade was not able to predict anything regarding the Fukushima nuclear energy plant. — [PREDICTION POST-MORTEM]
• Making predictions with BeanSight — [LINKS]
• Fred Wilson misunderstands Apple’s dynamics… very badly. — [CHART]
• Forests — [VIDEO]
• The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens? — [VIDEO]
• Predicting the monthly releases of 10 major U.S. economic indicators — [VIDEO]
• Areva’s analysis of the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident — [SLIDES]
• Steve Wozniak at ACU conf — [VIDEO]
• BetFair news — [LINKS]
• On Twitter, BetFair wins hands down over InTrade. — [SCREENSHOT]
• Beware thinkers who make their points using metaphors — [REBUTTAL]
• Steve Randy Waldman wants to create a bloggers’ think tank. — [IDEA]
• How does an upward trend impacts the novelty effect? — [STRATEGIC MARKETING]
• Italian soccer story shows why over-focusing on betting is the wrong way to address potential corruption in sport. — [LINK]
• Kauffman Economics Bloggers Forum — [WEBCAST]
• Midas Oracle’s April Fools 2011 — [HUMOR]
• Cryptome (a kind of WikiLeaks) publishes 10 photos of the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant. — [PHOTOS]
• Pepsi invested heavily in so-called “social media” while de-investing in traditional advertising. — [ANALYSIS]
• Are citations in science journals reflecting serious, genuine and productive R&D? — [CHART]
• MicroSoft stole BetFair’s marketing idea. — [PHOTO]
• The future belongs to hedge funds — [LINK]
• Paul Allen on Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer during MicroSoft’s inception — [LINK]
• We have become a nation of beggars. — [VIDEO]
• What China is doing with all that copper… — [LINK]
• 2 academic sites worth bookmarking — [LINKS]
• Human Achievement Hour 2011 — [VIDEO]
• China’s ghost cities — [VIDEO]
• Areva’s analysis on Fukushima — [SLIDES]
• Very few women have made History. — [LINK]

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