Britain Reconsiders Borrowing Rules (1)
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The U.K.'s public finances worsened last month in one of the clearest signs yet of the deteriorating British economy. New rules to make borrowing easier are being considered.
A look into datacenter of future at HP Labs (8)
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A couple of weeks ago we visited HP Labs where Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow and Director of HP Labs’ Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory gave us a tour of the datacenter of the future. This datacenter was actually used to render the first two Shrek movies. Patel has worked at HP for 21 years, and is an interesting guy to have a conversation with. What makes it futuristic? Because of the sensor grid and the way ...
Posting On Midas Oracle versus Presenting At The Third WorkShop (1)
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MIDAS ORACLE: 1,600 daily readers (600 visitors on the Web + 1,000 feed subscribers) THIRD WORKSHOP: 40 people in the room. - [Psstt... All the links to the presented papers... here.] - Ratio: 40 to 1. There are 40 times more people on Midas Oracle than in that Chicago conference room. TAKEAWAY: If your goal as a researcher is truly to get your ideas out, then come blogging with us on Midas Oracle. - FEED ...
Comment on What I think of Robin Hanson’s comment to the CFTC… and what I think about his slam at TradeSports-InTrade, BetFair-TradeFair, and HedgeStreet. by Jason Ruspini (1)
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Ed, Two onshore sites I notice are FirstDibz and YooNew, which seem to let you buy or sell your conditional ticket reservations right up to the game that will decide whether or not you get the tickets. Surprisingly, neither site addresses the obvious “is this legal?” question in their FAQs.
Comment on InTrade CEO John Delaney’s comment to the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets) was so good that even a BetFair shareholder loved it. by Jason Ruspini (1)
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You want to say “public interest exemption” instead of “exempt commodities”. The former is what the IEM and others argue for. Only I mentioned “exempt commodities” as part of a possibly more robust jurisdictional framework with respect to gaming laws, though election, tax and policy markets with the appropriate trading restrictions in place are clearly “excluded commodities”. I don’t see the CFTC ruling such markets out as excluded commodities even if none are launched anytime ...
Comment on In black, the comment made by the ubber president of the Pennock fan club. But I want Jason Ruspini to dissent in the comment area with another argument. by Jason Ruspini (1)
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The contracts should be re-worded to work as the nominations ones do. If a candidate dies, all contracts in the group are settled and then a new set is re-launched. These rules could probably also be modified with merging logic to preserve open interest. . There are a few factors contributing to the favorite/longshot bias on Intrade, e.g, the fees, the lack of interest paid to most positions, the difficulty of funding accounts, liquidity preference ...
SEC Clarifies Short-Selling Rule (1)
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The SEC said an emergency order imposing new restrictions on short sales will not apply to bona fide market makers.
An Imploding Consensus (1)
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AN IMPLODING CONSENSUS: "The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming 'incontrovertible.'" On the other hand, Michelle Malkin has a "clarification" from the APS that ...
The prediction markets have started off quite beautifully, and the CFTC bureaucrats won’t be able to stop them. (1)
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Outlook vs. Gmail - 7h3 Ð3ƒ1n171v3 (0mp4r1$10n (97)
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Editor: Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But can an Outlook user make the switch without losing out? Guest contributor Jared Goralnick's here today to take a look. Gmail launched in 2004 and has matured each year, but Microsoft Outlook (with Exchange) is still the most popular tool for accessing email. Comparing the two side by side, is it ...
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Chad said:
I've recently, finally, started to make great strides in converting my less tech savy friends and family to Gmail for personal emails. Due mostly, I think, to the fact that people are getting sick of not having access to their email absolutely everywhere. Why go through the trouble of configuring an email client on every machine you use? Your emails exist "in the cloud", so why not also your client? Next step, office documents.
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AaronTN said:
Really good article. Great if you are trying to make your way over to Gmail.
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Stewtopia said:
Jared's got a great comparison of the two products here. While the article probably won't get anyone in these two entrenched camps to switch products, it does highlight the strengths and weaknesses of both platforms.
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jezarnold said:
Really great comparison.. thanks lifehacker! IF i ever started my own company, i would seriously consider GAFYD
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nlnnet said:
Why still use a version stuck to a physical location?
Microsoft's Real Problem: The Second Coming of Apple (22)
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As Microsoft (MSFT) continues to waste time and resources figuring out how to win a sideline game it has already lost--Internet media--its shareholders have bigger things to worry about. Namely, the future of the Windows and Office cash cows. It has been so long since Microsoft had anything real to worry about in these businesses that it's easy to take their perpetual domination for granted. Don't. We've written frequently about the cloud computing threat: Google, ...
Green Ink: To Drill or Not To Drill (1)
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Well, the dead cat bounced on Friday, as oil markets rebounded after the most bearish week in four years, Bloomberg reports. But there are fewer supply-side worries: The U.K. will improve security in Nigeria’s oil region, and Iranian output holds steady despite sanctions, both in the WSJ (sub reqd.). And don’t expect a repeat of China’s voracious demand for diesel to fuel generators like in 2004, the WSJ reports (sub reqd.): Prices today are too ...
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages (Noam Cohen/Bits) (3)
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Noam Cohen / Bits: Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages — Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site …
Analysts: Google investors "freaking out for nothing" (1)
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Boom Times Take Root in Dubai (2)
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The centerpiece of Dubai’s financial hub seems equal to the thrusting ambitions of the foreign investment bankers rushing to set up shop.
Bush 'a total failure,' Pelosi says (Alexander Mooney/CNN) (1)
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Alexander Mooney / CNN: Bush ‘a total failure,’ Pelosi says — (CNN) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush “a total failure” on Thursday, among the California Democrat's harshest assessments to date of the president. — “God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States — a total failure …
Will the CFTC “Do the right thing?” (2)
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Those that aren’t prediction / event / outcome market affectionados, might not have realized that the CFTC recently asked …for public comment on the appropriate regulatory treatment of financial agreements offered by markets commonly referred to as event, prediction, or information markets. During the past several years, the CFTC has received numerous requests for guidance involving the trading of event contracts. These contracts typically involve financial agreements that are linked to events or measurable outcomes ...
Why the New York Times Should Use More Anonymous Sources (1)
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To stay competitive. I'll explain why at the bottom of this post, but first: Yesterday I looked at the use of anonymous sources by large news outlets, but today I'd like to go through and be a little more systematic about it. I relied on a "propensity" measure which was simply the number of articles that had phrases you'd typically use to cite someone anonymously divided by the total number of articles that were published ...
