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Dylan16807today at 3:08 AM1 replyview on HN

Predicting real events is significantly random which makes it like gambling, but the ability to influence events makes it unlike gambling.

Just calling it gambling emphasizes the former problem while dismissing the latter problem.


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fsckboytoday at 4:43 AM

any game with a positive expected value is also not gambling, it's mining