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Note to self: Microsoft files pay-per-use PC patent ... What about Amazon's EC2 and S3 services? I assume they were able to patent some...

I have always been huge fan of eBay. Actually not always. At first I was a fan of Onsale, the first auction site on the net! In fact I bough...

A few days ago, I was shocked to find out that  there's another bailout of a trillion dollars in loans by the Fed: "The Fed'...

China has a huge trade surplus with the US which has been growing since 1985. Normally, or in theory, exporters repatriate the money earne...

Nice post on manipulation of prediction markets : ... manipulation can improve (!) prediction markets  - the reason is that manipulation off...

This week, like everyone, I had some thoughts about the $700B financial industry bailout. I put them in an email to some friends a few ago...

The big problem with providing Canadian-style universal health care in the US is that it would basically nationalize a large part of the in...

After reading this opinion piece from the Irish Independent News ( archive link )... Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:22:44 -0400 From: "Nemo...

In my last entry about prediction markets vs polls , I quoted and linked to some aggregate numbers from Intrade for the US presidential ele...

A ride-by demographic study , one subway car: