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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago

Polymarket Decides Incentivizing a Nuclear Detonation Might Be a Bad Idea

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Polymarket Decides Incentivizing a Nuclear Detonation Might Be a Bad Idea

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Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml to Not the Onion@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago
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The prediction market platform recenlty pulled trades on the probablibly of a nuclear weapon being denotated.
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      that isn’t how prediction markets work; the house gets their fees regardless.

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          I think it’s actually maybe a bridge too far even for them - it reminds me of this scene in Bowling for Columbine where the brother of Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols reluctantly concedes that there should be some limits to the right to bear arms.

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            Apparently nuclear weapons are a constitutionally guaranteed right!

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    Damn, easy win too, if it goes off nobody would be left to collect.

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