[extropy-chat] Noisy future day (was: silent night)

[Robin Hanson]

On 12/23/2004, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>>It is already legal in the sense that if you spent a million dollars
>>going through the usual hoops to lobby the CFTC you could do it.
>
>What about a non-market service that does something similar?  ...  Anybody 
>can sell research reports supporting a particular prediction.  ... All 
>reports purchased through this website have a double-your-money-back 
>guarantee. ...  Note that I am not a lawyer!  But in my non-expert 
>opinion, this is not betting or investing. ...

In our society, it is the opinion of lawyers that counts when the question 
is what acts are legal.


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