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Very Interesting, though I still wonder if intelligence agencies can out perform betting markets (at least on questions with enough interest to be able to generate a liquid price).

wow I read the original post and now this. Though I disagree with (this post's) author on some points, he is correct that the the regulation is mostly reasonable. If it was up to me, I would remove items 5,6. They strike me as an unreasonable burden on both homeowner and airbnb respectively.

I see no reason why an in law unit should be regulated differently within the 75 day period of allowed hosting.

I often disagree with Jeff Sachs, but I find his argument here highly persuasive.

- There is no reason the US should be giving away IP for free

- The US Government should use its purchasing power as a check against the drug companies

- Drug companies should be able to reap profits, but profits at a 10-20x P/E not 100x

wow that graph at the end. wonder if node is in the midst of a "language bubble".

This is essentially a payday loan for app developers, fairly low risk since they can see clear sayed numbers from itunes/google play. Smart Idea.

this is really nothing other than very straight forward "Insurance". In the long run, the optimists almost always win. Keeping money sitting idle and constantly rolling short dated put options is not a particularly sophisticated trading strategy.

These numbers are way off. like by an order of magnitude.

Though this is an interesting thought experiment, the author misses one key point: Advertising has historically only been about 1% of GDP and there is nothing to suggest that it will grow. To suggest that Advertising can support increasingly large parts of the economy is a bit unrealistic.

Something like this could be extremely valuable inside an organization. A lot of very valuable knowledge is locked up by employees with no incentive to reveal it.

People have been singing this song for quite some time now, the question is still: can they do it?

I'm yet to see this mythical Uber Logistics play, and their ancillary products, RUSH, EATS, CARGO etc all seem poorly thought through and bolted on, not deeply integrated into their car driver base.

I should also note that this is probably partially a regulatory problem. I'm not sure NYC (and other cities) will allow livery cars to simultaeously be delivery cars. Of course Uber has demonstrated an ability to bend the law to their will, so we will see.