Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:What is it with surveillance? (Score -1, Troll) 95

Sorry, but what? What mass surveillance? This isn't mass surveillance at all, any more than me having a dash cam is mass surveillance. If someone does something dangerous around me in my car, endangering the people in my car, you can bet your bottom dollar I'm going to share that with the police. Why on earth would a School bus driver not too?

Comment Re:giving all residents! (Score 2, Insightful) 48

Did you post this also when Musk said THE EXACT SAME THING?????

Unemployed people can't buy stocks.

More seriously, both this and Musk sound like the government seizing company assets and distributing it evenly to everybody. This is basically UBI, and it is a huge tax no matter how it is collected. It may work however, needs to be investigated with some seriousness and by people without preconceived notions of what will happen.

Comment Re:It's because it takes away from the state lotte (Score 1) 132

The difference has nothing to do with the knowledge.

In the stock market, the money put in is actually used to advance the value of the stock. It's an investment just like you paying somebody to make widgets (that manufacturer could screw up his work and lose all your money, but that possibility does not make it gambling). In polymarket the money you put in is not used in any way to advance the outcome you are betting on.

Comment Re: amazing (Score 5, Insightful) 132

The reason we allow the stock market is ostensibly because people who are gambling are providing a service to the companies they are gambling on. The added cash allows those companies to do things they otherwise wouldnâ(TM)t be able to.

Prediction markets are just pure gambling. No investment, just betting.

Slashdot Top Deals

"Oh my! An `inflammatory attitude' in alt.flame? Never heard of such a thing..." -- Allen Gwinn, allen@sulaco.Sigma.COM

Working...