Wednesday assorted links

1. How futures trading affected Bitcoin prices.

2. “Without air conditioning, each 1°F increase in school year temperature reduces the amount learned that year by one percent.”

3. Ethiopia on me on Ethiopia: “In the US very well educated and very sophisticated cosmopolitan people have no sense of how nice things are in Ethiopia and how well things are going. These include people with PhDs in economics familiar with Davos for a regular economic meeting.”

4. vbuterin on privacy.

5. The invisible asymptote: “More people are more skilled at being hurtful in text than photos.”  A good post with many points of interest.

6. Should central banks become banks?