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Category Archives: Economics
Wall Street Survivor – learn how to invest
It’s a huge library of video courses you can take for free.
Learn to Invest: Learn how to buy stocks and how to invest.
UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
Review of the EU copyright rules – Put your word in at the EU now!
All stakeholders are welcome to contribute to this consultation. Contributions are particularly sought from consumers, users, authors, performers, publishers, producers, broadcasters, intermediaries, distributors and other service providers, Collective Management Organisations, public authorities and Member States.
The objective of this consultation is to gather input from all stakeholders on the review of the EU copyright rules.
Review of the EU copyright rules – Consultations – The EU Single Market – European Commission.
The link above has a few documents for you to download. Choose one and fill in the questionaire in the consultation document and send it back. Easy!
Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet
Superscammer. And relevant when compared to the wolf of wallstreet!
TSA screening works only ‘a little better than chance,’ according to government report
Summarizing 400 studies over the past 60 years, the report concludes that humans perform only “the same as or slightly better than chance.” Given that the TSA has spent almost a billion dollars on the program, that’s a pretty poor record.
This includes extensive studies of the TSA SPOT programme over 2011 & 2012
I Bought an Apartment Just to Rent It Out on Airbnb
In 2012 I bought an apartment specifically to rent out on airbnb. I’ve been managing it remotely for the past year. This post includes everything I learned as well as some revenue numbers
Making Money from Movie Streaming Sites, an Insider’s Story
The gist is pretty simple: drive traffic to sites via links, recieve money (about $1 per 1000 hits) via their affiliate advertising programmes.
http://torrentfreak.com/making-money-from-movie-streaming-sites-an-insiders-story-131019/
bibitel Sim Skin for cheap mobile roaming
These guys have a sticker SIM card which you stick over your existing SIM card. Once you’re roaming, it intercepts the call and re routes it to it’s own services. These are way cheaper than the roaming costs of the company you are using. Once you’re back, you are using your own provider.
Biggest patent trolls worried about EU also becoming patent troll heaven
What is the world coming to when the largest patent trolls, namely Apple, MS, and Samsung as well as BlackBerry, Cisco, HP, Intel, Yahoo, Google are trying to reign in new EU laws that would make patent trolling easy? Could it be that even they recognise that the patent system is outmoded and harms innovation and sales in a big way?
Techreuzen: EU wordt walhalla voor patenttrollen – Webwereld.
Spotify: If musicians don’t give us their stuff they get pirated more • The Register
In a study encompassing torrents, releases to new media and concerts it truns out that if music is not released quickly on legal services like spotify, it is pirated much more often.
Bitcoin now subject to US Money-Laundering Rules
Bitcoin will be subject to regulation in the US as it gains in popularity. The article below goes into fearmongering about the potential of Bitcoins to be used by criminals, but forgets to mention that ALL currencies are used by criminals. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324373204578374611351125202.html
Dutch reschool unemployed to COBOL-experts
Considering there is a huge shortage of COBOL programmers, this is an excellent idea!
Crown casino hi-tech scam nets $32 million
A high rolling gambler and his accomplice tapped into the Crown casino video surveillance cctv system and were able to read other players cards. In just 8 hands (!) this led to them winning some $32 million herals sun
“Hacker Fares”: Kayak Helps You Book Two One-WayFlights
Because sometimes that’s cheaper than a return, if you book with different airlines consumerist
IRENA – Global Atlas for Solar & Wind
The Global Atlas is the comprehensive information platform on the potential of renewable energy. It provides resource maps from leading technical institutes worldwide and tools for evaluating the technical potential of renewable energies. It can function as a catalyst for policy development and energy planning, and can support investors in entering renewable energy markets.
via IRENA – Global Atlas for Solar & Wind.
The Laffer Curve in Action: Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate – Telegraph
Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate – Telegraph.
This has cost the UK GBP7 billion. They have repealed the laws, but the millionaires are not coming back much.
Software Patents going nuts – Apple & Google spent more on Patent lawsuits than R&D last year
How Apple has a shitload more profit not on the books and not taxed in the US
Apple’s foreign profits are funneled through different countries to reside in a country where there is no or little tax on profits. They don’t pay taxes in the US untill the money is repatriated to the US, but they do mark a portion of the money as being taxed in the US and take that off their books. This means that there are lower profit figures than they actually have allthough the money is still in foreign accounts.
How Apple's phantom taxes hide billions in profit.
How retail uses numbers to sucker consumers
Payment alternatives to plastic – an interactive map
Not using a credit card is becoming a much more viable method over the internet (22% of the overall e-commerce payments), with iDeal and Paypal, but also many other methods used to pay for porn or gambling. Worldpay has made an interactive map showing the predominance of specific alternative currencies per country.
This is based on this report by worldpay.
Farmville maker to employees: Give back our stock or you’ll be fired
That’s a pretty crass threat and bizarre that a US company can do this!
Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you’ll be fired | The Digital Home – CNET News.
Google to charge to use Maps API
Apps and websites that use the Google Maps API will soon have to pay $4 per 1,000 visitors Google announced today.
There is an allowance for small sites – the first 25,000 map-loads a day are free.
Google Maps API now costs $4 per 1,000 requests • The Register.
Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong
Basically it’s because econonmists allways calibrate the data – ie. change certain parameters to try to represent reality. Carter proved that even small changes to parameters make huge differences in the predictive power of a model. Economists calibrate and recalibrate their models all the time, leading to worse and worse predictions.
Why Economic Models Are Always Wrong: Scientific American.