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.
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.
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.
this would be more useful if it had some subjective measures as well like "build quality" Galaxy s6 comes up as most similar to the droid turbo which seems fairly off base to me. CPU chipset generations would also be helpful to prevent this type of result
Israel (obv a different scale than china) has recently also experienced a big push toward desal. What's interesting is there's a moore's law type of effect at play here, desal keeps getting cheaper and cheaper to the point where it's actually a practical alternative to ground water, filtering etc.
I think water will be another great Malthusian disappointment, ocean water is basically unlimited (correct me if I'm mistaken), and on a 20-50 year time horizon it seems that the world should be able to alleviate all water scarcity by tapping it.
I hope this doesn't mean what it sounds like: "The school district spokesperson said that "our information technology department is working to get all our passwords centralized."
On an unrelated note, what does everybody think about the design language Topolsky brought to Bloomberg?
I'm torn, on the one hand it's "trendy" on the other hand, it looks like a 70's acid trip and not in a good way.
"presented by renaissance hotels" -- didn't know medium was already experimenting with revenue sources. I wonder how lucrative this type of native ad is for them.
awesome collection! I'll be using this later today.
One suggestion: Can the order of the books be made meaningful? If I'm going to pick a book I would like to know which one is the "best"