I want to know why the future is so hard to predict. Oh, that's simple. Of course I wouldn't mind knowing if IBM is going up or down. Might be quite handy every now and then. But hacking the global economy big time wasn't going to be any fun unless it could be done regularly, dependably, and on a scale where real money could be wagered.
Farmer thinks so.
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