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Comment · 8 years ago

I looked at their site briefly and didn't quite see the answer to this, on the bottom of their FAQ (https://www.augur.net/faq/) it says:

Fees on the Augur protocol go directly to the market creator and REP holders who report and dispute outcomes. The Forecast Foundation does not recieve any fees from actions, trades, markets or use on the Augur protocol.

I guess this has to do with them being a decentralized marketplace, which as the article discusses does have some cool perks.

In the USA, PredictIt.org is a site that is also aimed at prediction, but they take a 10% fee on profit, and then a 5% fee on withdrawal. Seemingly a lot more volume on their markets than Augur at the moment, with some of their markets having hundreds of thousands of shares traded, and thousands of comments.

https://www.predictit.org/About/HowItWorks?page=home

Edit: After I posted I now see that Gibsons77 gave a better and more concise answer to the question

Comment · 8 years ago

Yea, I keep a mouse on the right and a trackpad on the left. It is a good combination.

Comment · 8 years ago

I'm curious: How do you write code for Trello? I didn't realize there was an approach for this

Comment · 8 years ago

That really does sound insanely great...I need to get to a situation like that.

Comment · 8 years ago

> Plus the deletion of the SpaceX and Tesla facebook pages, when told over Twitter they existed was pretty funny.

Wait, did Elon not know about them and then just got them deleted upon finding out?

Comment · 8 years ago

I'm in a pillow dilemma right now and have been wondering about this in the back of my mind for weeks - what position do you sleep in?

Comment · 8 years ago

Very interesting. In the last 2 years I scare-tactic'd myself into seriously restricting my sugar (basically down to what the WHO would recommend for a person like myself) and immediately saw improvements in my skin, and not long after noticed that I don't get sick as often.

As well, I've adopted the practice of avoiding any eating after 7pm.

These two things combined resulted in me going from the 150s down to the 140s, seemingly only losing fat in the process.

All anecdotal but it has been more than enough to convince me that sugar (despite my deep, deep, deep, love for it) is not good for me.

Comment · 9 years ago

this is so true

Comment · 9 years ago

Well, sugar does cause inflammation, and the western diet is kind of built on sugar

Comment · 9 years ago

Yea, that is the first thing I thought of when I saw this. PWAs could be made for this and I think could be awesome

Comment · 9 years ago

I'm not really qualified to speak on this, but the most annoying part about this is it seems like a new discussion every 6 months. It's like asking your roommate to not set fire to the kitchen, but every half hour you have to go stop them from doing it... at some point it almost feels easier to just have the kitchen on fire than to continually worry about the kitchen being on fire.

I assume that I'm not alone in this feeling.

Comment · 9 years ago

This video freezes right before the excitement, I can tell because the sound keeps going. I blame a very complex conspiracy.

Comment · 9 years ago

The stock and IPO reality of the business world bums me out, when a company's product is its stock, a lot of things can get compromised.

Comment · 9 years ago

All I want is a world with a single flat tax, is that too much to ask?

Comment · 9 years ago

This is, unfortunately, very insightful, and also a very unfortunate persistent state of affairs.

I wonder how differently the world would look if companies didn't operate like this.