• YoFrodo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I consider any post mentioning ‘prediction market’ names like this to be advertisements. They are not news sources, they are gambling sites.

    • TeaWithDani@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Exactly, if you think about it for a second, what exactly is going to power these data centers if Patagonia is so remote and undeveloped?

      Oh look its mostly natural gas, which is threatened by all the mess in Hormuz. And hydropower, but the country has been in economic chaos for decades so there’s no centralized efforts to get those up and going.

      Basically dead on arrival as far as ideas go.

    • sbrodolino_21@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Well betting does work for what it’s meant to do. If you wanna know who is favoured in a football match your best option is looking at the betting sites.

      Agreed that these “articles” are purely advertisment.

    • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      17 hours ago

      I’m quite against prediction markets for many reasons, but I will say they have been more accurate than most political polls because people are actually putting money where their mouth is.