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> funny stories dealing with obsessed players aka sad stories of the mentally ill people your company was exploiting.

wcarron 6y ago
Wow, glad you got to draw attention to yourself through needless digressions about charged topics. I'm so glad you brought up the concept of gamlbing addiction. No one in all of history has thought of or mentioned it before. You're so amazing. Or, rather, kindly take your clickbaity comments and shove them 'you know where'
mr_toad 6y ago
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
- MaximumYComb 6y ago
  I've done the math on my local lotteries and the EV tips into the players favour when the jackpot gets a bit bigger than 30 million, even if you share a jackpot with one other. This is due to the return of 3,4,5,6 and 7 numbers all adding up, combined with the fact that the jackpot is largely from what others have spent in previous weeks. If I was completely rational I'd bet my house on it when it tips into my favour. I am not completely rational.
  - john_moscow 6y ago
    >If I was completely rational I'd bet my house on it when it tips into my favor. I am not completely rational. It would be rational to bet your house on it if you could repeat the draw an infinity of times, so that the outcome would converge to the expected value.
  - MauranKilom 6y ago
    A rational actor would consider risk of ruin.
NumberCruncher 6y ago
Not wanting to protect the company, but it's called the National Gambling Company, so it's pretty obvious for everyone what its products are, the participation in the games is anonymous, the customers have the opportunity to opt out (not buying lottery tickets) and it is owned by the government therefore it's profit is nothing more than a special form of tax. Their games are supervised directly by the Ministry of Finance. I could came up easily with a bunch of well know companies/industries breaking all these rules at once, but that's an other topic.

Wow, glad you got to draw attention to yourself through needless digressions about charged topics. I'm so glad you brought up the concept of gamlbing addiction. No one in all of history has thought of or mentioned it before. You're so amazing. Or, rather, kindly take your clickbaity comments and shove them 'you know where'

mr_toad 6y ago

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

MaximumYComb 6y ago
I've done the math on my local lotteries and the EV tips into the players favour when the jackpot gets a bit bigger than 30 million, even if you share a jackpot with one other. This is due to the return of 3,4,5,6 and 7 numbers all adding up, combined with the fact that the jackpot is largely from what others have spent in previous weeks. If I was completely rational I'd bet my house on it when it tips into my favour. I am not completely rational.
- john_moscow 6y ago
  >If I was completely rational I'd bet my house on it when it tips into my favor. I am not completely rational. It would be rational to bet your house on it if you could repeat the draw an infinity of times, so that the outcome would converge to the expected value.
- MauranKilom 6y ago
  A rational actor would consider risk of ruin.

NumberCruncher 6y ago

Not wanting to protect the company, but it's called the National Gambling Company, so it's pretty obvious for everyone what its products are, the participation in the games is anonymous, the customers have the opportunity to opt out (not buying lottery tickets) and it is owned by the government therefore it's profit is nothing more than a special form of tax. Their games are supervised directly by the Ministry of Finance. I could came up easily with a bunch of well know companies/industries breaking all these rules at once, but that's an other topic.