Archive - August 24th, 2016

New Democratic Ad Is Just People Reading Gross Breitbart Headlines, Because Breitbart Is Gross

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lol What is YOUR favorite disgusting, racist, homophobic, misogynistic Breitbart headline? The Democrats want to know! via Facebook http://ift.tt/2c7N9vC through IFTTT

Y Combinator startup Legalist uses Big Data to invest in civil lawsuits – Silicon Valley Business Journal

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Well… this is only slightly terrifying. The company hatched by a pair of Harvard undergrads has invested $75,000 in one case that its algorithms predict could have a $1 million verdict. via Facebook http://ift.tt/2bWib8j through IFTTT

Hedge fund paid terminally ill people to sign up for “death puts”

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“They presumably did some actuarial calculations about how many people would die and how much it would cost them in death puts. And those calculations were presumably based on, you know, normal people. They didn’t assume that everyone buying their bonds would have months to live, or that they’d be funded by a secretive hedge […]

How Things Work

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“Indeed, Gawker’s record for accuracy is excellent. For a site as reckless as it is purported to be, there have been no Jayson Blairs, no conflict-of-interest or plagiarism scandals, no career-ending corrections. The chief rule of establishment journalism that it violated to its detriment, it seems, is the one that recommends against pissing off billionaires. […]