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Hey, we are following on the topic with @ek and some other guys
If anyone of you is interested in building a bitcoin native prediction market or help delphi develop, please comment or dm me somewhere. We're setting up small group to discuss technology and design, and to see if some working team can be formed around the project.
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Dude, come help us out! We've got one working, and are looking for someone who can help us integrate other platforms and libraries, like youtube, too!
I think the predictability could be gamed, which is probably why the randomness was introduced to begin with. If you have certain strategies to game the system, it’s inherently a gamble if you don’t know which reward type is going to be chosen on a given day.
I trust k00b and co to find the right balance, I just wanted to share a suggestion.
Rejecting both the traditional left-wing and right-wing parties, FMLN and ARENA respectively, and looking forward to the 2019 presidential election, he formed his own party, Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas).
Leading up to the 2019 presidential election, Bukele was already polling higher than any of the other potential presidential candidates. The old parties, FMLN and ARENA, teamed up to block his participation in the election. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal — the nation’s highest election authority — ruled that, despite meeting the conditions to register in time for the next election, Nuevas Ideas would not be allowed to compete in elections until after the presidential election was concluded. In order to run for President, Bukele had to run as the candidate of another party. The centre-left Cambio Democratico (Democratic Change) party was the most logical choice, as Bukele had ran for mayor as the FMLN candidate but in alliance with Cambio Democratico. But on the evening of July 25th, 2018, just hours before the deadline for candidates to register themselves for the election, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal secretly met and decided to cancel Cambio Democratico’s eligibility to participate in the election. They also decided to wait until the next day to announce it, when it would be too late for Bukele to change his party affiliation. Bukele got wind of the secret meeting and what was being plotted around 9 or 10 pm. He immediately and secretly withdrew his affiliation with Cambio Democratico, and with less than an hour to go before the midnight deadline, he officially affiliated himself with GANA, a small centre-right party.
Pretty awesome sub-story. It's kind of weird that people are more than willing to conspire under the thinest veil of plausible deniability, yet won't conspire when it's removed. It's like a child protecting itself from monsters by hiding under a blanket.
The operations to reclaim the barrios had put the gang members in a defensive posture. For months, the homicide rate had been extraordinarily low as gang members were forced into hiding. But on March 26th 2022, the gangs went on a killing spree, targeting street vendors, bus passengers, and grocery shoppers. It was El Salvador’s bloodiest day since the civil war. The gangs intended to send a message to the government.
The reaction by the government was swift and resolute. In the early hours the next day, the National Assembly passed a state of emergency and a state of exception. The gangs had treated the public as hostages, now the president began treating their imprisoned homeboys similarly. Meal rations were cut, mattresses and clothes were taken away, the inmates now wore only underwear and slept on concrete. The President vowed that if there were any more waves of gang violence that the imprisoned gang members would not be fed “a single grain of rice.”
I want to share more of it, but I'd just recommend reading it all. There's no mention of Bitcoin at all, but it tells a favorable portrait of Bukele, which I won't believe the face of, yet I did learn more about Bukele's tenure and El Salvador from this article than I had in any other (if only because it was written well).
I like it because there is a diversity of interests but a common core. There are enough new members and enough creativity to keep it peppy, but it's not like Reddit (very young, naive, posting redundant questions every day) or Nostr (so much meme noise that the signal is totally drowned out).
It's also pretty respectful in a way, like armed forces service members. They might knock on one branch or the other, but it's with respect. Here you get both sides of the political aisle (with a heavy dose of "both sides are crooks") but with enough respect and intelligence to see that all issues are more complicated than they seem at face value.
In short, there's a guy trying to make his local government better, talking to a dude eating out of a can in his bunker.
That said, we could use a little more feminine perspective around here. Not that it comes across as sexist; just "male-dominated".
I think ironically the only thing that would stop SN from "flourishing" is to try too hard to be something else, or to be too many things. There are several cool forums that predate all "social media" (or the internet proper, for that matter).