http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010
Gordon Brown’-s gaffe (“-bigoted woman”-, Gillian Duffy):
The URLs of the UKs General Election 2010
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WashPost: The British will bet on anything.
Solar activity and cosmic rays drive the Earths climate.
Global warming due to human-produced CO2 is the biggest scientific imposture of all times.
Henrik Svensmark –- The Cloud Mystery (French version):
Vincent Courtillot (in French, alas):
Cantor Exchange and Trend Exchange defend the usefulness of movie hedging.
Lions Gate vice chairman Michael Burns said the markets “would allow a diverse group of motion picture industry participants, including studios, film distributors, theater owners, investors and other financial intermediaries within the motion picture industry to manage their risk and exposure to new film releases.”-
“We believe a market in domestic box office receipts would substantially widen the number and breadth of financing sources available to the motion picture industry by lowering the risk inherent in such financing,” Burns wrote.
Robin Hanson is in favor of movie business futures.
ADDENDUM:
– Jason Ruspini sends us the link of the Senate bill.
Professional analysts are 51% worse than amateur analysts…
CFTC approves the Cantor Exchange, but wont approve its movie box-office prediction markets.
How to publish on Midas Oracle
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Convergence in online gaming and land-based gaming
Nate Silver rates New York Citys neighborhoods… and Jason Ruspini objects.
Nate Silver rates New York City’-s neighborhoods.
Jason Ruspini:
The piece is problematic insofar as it underweights proximity to areas where people work, which results in high ratings for distant neighborhoods and low ratings for central ones, on top of the effect of higher rents in central neighborhoods. True, if you work from home, it might make more sense to live in the outer boroughs. But if you have a one hour + commute every day, it doesn’-t really help that you happen to live near a subway stop and thus have a relatively high “-transit”- rating.
For the restaurant category, he seems to be considering quantity but not quality. How else does Long Island City have a higher rating than Gramercy/Flatiron, where 9 of the top 50 Zagats restaurants are located? I don’-t even think that Long Island City beats Gramercy/Flatiron in terms of quantity either.
Ultimately, of course, preferences are too subjective to give one ordinal ranking, but the distance-to-average-work-location issue seems glaring, and increases the outer borough bias.