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superfrank
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"Our world is strange and often fake and corrupt. But we think it’s normal because we can’t see anything else. HyperNormalisation - the story of how we got here."

Adam Curtis - HyperNormalisation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... malisation
kerberus
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How do the bookies make sure they beat us?
Something to read, with a quick quiz to check you're back in form.
From BBC.co.uk


http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3wd9qt?int ... 30#z8b3frd

I got 7/8 :D
Wakey wakey and back to work :P
kerberus
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BBC right now
On air
12:15-12:57
You and Yours
You and Yours special: The UK Gambling Market
You & Yours investigates how punters have few consumer rights in the UK gambling market.

podcast later
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

Comment away!
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ShaunWhite
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... ompilation

...pick it up at about 42min for an interesting feature on horse anatomy.
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SeaHorseRacing
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David Bowie Documentary 9.00pm tonight BBC 2. Includes last few months of his life- Must see.
convoysur-2
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kerberus
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convoysur, - show this to the BHA, - imagine a horse race actually going off on time!!!!

Those stalls should be fitted to every racecourse. Just slide the geegees on to the track sideways. Pure genius, or guinness - whatever.

Also means my beef curry takeaway probably was beef.
:mrgreen: :P
by convoysur-2 » Mon Jan 09, 2017 9:59 pm

china buying irish horses,
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6uzkPVMrQBY
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workpeter
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Shooter and Frequency. Both on Netflix. Very very addictive, beware.
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jimibt
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workpeter wrote:Shooter and Frequency. Both on Netflix. Very very addictive, beware.
agree, enjoyed what i saw of frequency. another one that's totally addictive, The Night of: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Amazon-Video ... e+night+of
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Euler
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Good TED talk on stats, touches on Kahneman and why people make loads of errors when judging numbers: -

http://www.ted.com/talks/alan_smith_why ... statistics
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ShaunWhite
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Wednesday night's Newnight (15 Feb BBC2) - Interesting piece on hi-speed trading and a way to break the dominance of fastest first. Warning : Includes lots of xxx server porn.

I've always thought these hi-speed operations were robbing money from our pension funds. For quite some time I've wondered about leveling the playing field by making exchanges catch packets of trades in 200ms bundles and randomly submitting them to the market...this idea on Newsnight isn't a million miles from that, but not as good as mine :) .
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jimibt
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shaun - saw this item as well and thought that the company (iex the investors exchange) have a really neat way of tackling the issue. I love the irony that by slowing the customer down by 0.350ms, the customers all get a better deal. i actually then wondered where i could get access to $1m to hook up my own close proximity node inside that building and just switch on, intercept and party hard!!

btw - for those wanting to skip straight to this segment, it's at about 25:00 into the programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... t-15022017
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ShaunWhite
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I thought $1m for that access to 30+ exchanges was pretty good value given what they can make. I'll have a feel down the back of the sofa.
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jimibt
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glad you agree, i thought "why aren't more people with that kinda money not doing this". I'm estimating that even if they only make $1 per $1k transaction, they will still be clearing $1 a second if the averages that I've picked up are correct. extrapolate that out to even an 8 hour day:

8 * 60 * 60 * 1 = $28,800 a day!! on a notional skim of 0.1% per txn (> $8m per annum).

Shaun, dig deep behind the sofa and maybe even get the keys to the lada out as well and check under the footwell :D
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jimibt
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well, yet again newsnight came up trumps for stateside news. if you haven't watched it tonite, you need to watch this segment where evan davis tries to sensibly talk with one of trumps advisors:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39000118

not sure whether i find this as funnily scary as the actual trump press conference itself (well worth a watch)
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