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nullctoday at 5:30 AM0 repliesview on HN

> Most people don't know, that "prediction markets" are acutally based on an idea by DARPA in 2002, after 9/11/2001.

Did they then use a time machine to go back to the mid-90's to pass the idea to Jim Bell so he could take the fall for some of the less attractive possible outcomes?