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Exactly. So far they've demonstrated nothing more than a camera.

One Intrade commenter from London claimed he was set up to earn about $20,000 in arbitrage against Betfair. If you expect the manipulation to continue over a period of time (which I certainly did, and wished I could register on other betting sites), it's worth it to deposit larger sums of money with bank transfers despite the wait.

At one point I wondered whether the manipulators were making large purchases once per day and whether this could explain why the different betting sites never came back in line with each other. In that case, a savvy arbitrageur might take advantage of prices while they're at their widest differential, and then wait to buy more the next day. I thought I saw a pattern like this going for a few days in a row but it was gone by the time I felt confident enough to trade around it.

Google doesn't teach your kids the narrative structure against which they measure their own lives.

But what happens once people get used to the new duration of the yellow light? Do they approach it based on what they're used to from all the other yellow lights they've ever seen? Then the longest yellow light in the country is the safest one, until all the other lights are lengthened to match it.

Given that three people posted a link to the same parody video within three minutes of each other, I'm forced to assume that Adam Curtis is a brilliant filmmaker.

Sued by who? Holders of CRT patents?

I had no idea you could get faculty from another institution to be on your thesis committee. More importantly, I had no idea PhD students could do summer internships to supplement their measly stipends. If I knew that I might have applied to grad school already. It seemed like the only people in my undergrad program who had a good idea of how to plan out their academic careers were the ones whose parents were university professors. I felt alienated and left to fend for myself and I still don't know how to break back into that world.

Tell me when they can grow me a new inner ear and cure tinnitus. I want to experience the tranquility of true silence, and I want it from something other than the cold embrace of the grave.

Does he mean he's writing a book about this experience? I guess it will be like Flowers for Algernon, but inverted.

It's easier than general relativity, is that good enough?

I've been wondering how easily a situation could arise in which an underdog could try something like this on Kickstarter and give up, and end up having done nothing but provide free research into market demand that a bigger player with more resources can then take advantage of.

Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?