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Do you have citations for this? The academic papers I've read on prediction markets are (broadly) positive.

I don't think you needed paragraphs like "My guess is that some high-level greedy marketing dickwad, completely unaware of the asinine implications of his brilliant idea, signed off on this dumb-as-a-bag-of-rocks pricing model. He then directed the grunts to somehow implement his grand vision on GitHub’s servers. That’s when shit started to hit the fan." ... to get the conversation started. Your other points were sensible and lucid. This was a distraction and had the paradoxical effect of making me more sympathetic to github. The same looks to be true of other posters in this thread.

If you were consciously choosing to take a hyperbolic tone, can I ask if you might reconsider that decision in future posts? Or at least concretely test your idea that calling people "dickwads" and "grunts" gets you more traction.

I appreciated you raising the bandwidth question, and comparing it with other services. You made a good argument. Thank you!