Inkling Markets – web 2.0-looking Prediction Markets
by Vinay Gupta • April 1, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
You too can buy and sell predictions.
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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Everything Else
I’m saving this for later
by Vinay Gupta • March 29, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
Ganesha’s Skinhead Army
Read more →If these subpoenas go forward, can we waterboard Karl Rove?
by Vinay Gupta • March 22, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
If the evidence extracted from these aggressive interrogation techniques calls for it, can we waterboard Alberto Gonzales? You know… that’s how to make a point about the acceptability of torture.
Read more →On Libertarians
by Vinay Gupta • March 22, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
“Free people create free markets. Free markets do not necessarily create free people.” – Gupta’s Libertarian Observation How hard is this, people? How hard? NOT THAT BLOODY HARD. Somebody who sells themselves into slavery can be acting within a free market context, but is no longer free. Has the market created freedom? No! It has [...]
Read more →Set up OpenID
by Vinay Gupta • March 20, 2007 • Cool Tools, Everything Else • 0 Comments
Using the excellent phpMyID (from http://Siege.org). First thoughts: OpenID is clearly viable. I think it’s a winner. Now, can it be used for Unix log in, and if not, why?
Read more →Poor bastard
by Vinay Gupta • March 20, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
CIA Milan bureau chief on the run from Interpol. Just following orders.
Read more →Bleach bombs?
by Vinay Gupta • March 18, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
Chlorine gas weapons used in Iraq. Story seems to indicate that these are very low tech although still very nasty. If there were no chemical weapons there when we arrived, they are there now.
Read more →Memory erasing in rats
by Vinay Gupta • March 12, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
When they tested the rats with both tones a day later, untreated animals were still fearful of both sounds, as if they expected a shock. But those treated with the drug were no longer afraid of the tone they had been reminded of under treatment. The process of re-arousing the rats’ memory of being shocked [...]
Read more →Wanted: a tool to identify music.
by Vinay Gupta • March 10, 2007 • Everything Else • 2 Comments
SXSW.zip That’s a legal torrent file to download 726 tracks, one per artist, from South By Southwest. Unfortunately it turns out to be really really hard to get through even a fraction of what’s there because there’s no genre information or other way to filter for taste. What I’d like is a tool that does [...]
Read more →Libertarian politics and Burning Man
by Vinay Gupta • March 9, 2007 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
As you may know, I look on Libertarianism like I look at bleach: nasty, but necessary in some cases. Give Me Liberty or Give Me X is an article on Libertarianism and Burning Man. It’s a pretty good read.
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