This comment and subthread have nothing to do with the central topic of the article. It's the epitome of a generic tangent, and has caused just the kind of hellish flamewar that we are most trying to avoid on Hacker News.

(It currently has 276 replies, and I don't think any of them are about Polymarket or prediction markets, which is what the article is about.)

Please read the guidelines, particularly these ones, and make an effort to observe them in future.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't fulminate.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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