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I'm curious why casinos are on the list? I'm generally not a good barometer apparently given my work in HFT & adtech, but I'd think building a sports book woul
by kasey_junk 10y ago
I'm curious why casinos are on the list?
I'm generally not a good barometer apparently given my work in HFT & adtech, but I'd think building a sports book would be fairly interesting & not evil.
Things I think are a shade past where I want to be: high risk consumer credit, for profit prisons, private military contractors & pyramid marketing schemes.
- tptacek 10y agoI wouldn't work on high-risk consumer credit either (I assume there aren't many coding jobs in the prison industry). My problem with casinos is the same as your issue with high risk consumer credit. You're right: there may be exceptions.
- kasey_junk 10y agoI suppose I could be persuaded to work in high risk consumer credit if the point was to eliminate the exploitation and I suppose doing that in casinos means getting rid of them.
- ta123321 10y agoI once built a prototype that was supposed to identify gamblers who were going off the deep end. It was billed to me as a way to help people before they ruined their lives. I found out it was marketed to casinos as a way to keep players in the system longer by enforcing cool down periods. Players who go too far sometimes don't come back, or not to the same casino or type of gambling.