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epolanskitoday at 12:00 AM1 replyview on HN

And gambling, same as prediction markets, has literally no positive social outcome.


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torawaytoday at 3:45 AM

Okay, but have you considered that thanks to Polymarket, society was able to intuit within mere minutes that Khamenei was most likely dead when the odds jumped to 99%?

No more need to rely on MSM or governments, it's all just math and data (odds jumped entirely based on Reuters newswire update posting a quote from an unnamed Israeli source).

And as a bonus, people lost a bunch of money "winning" that trade!