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some corporations gonna get it, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/25/us/group-invests-5-million-to-hedge-bets-in-lottery.html
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Got his odds down to 1 in 180,000 or so. Not too bad.
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Oct 21, 2018 22:04
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red sampson posted:some corporations gonna get it, guillotine. I gotta get a ticket after work tonight.
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Burt Sexual posted:What’s the over under for me winning? I will buy 2 tickets if it increases my over. I think this is the exact part that breaks people's brains. 2 tickets doubles your chances. 200% more likely. But normal situations where people weigh their odds are like 1/5 poo poo, like Mcdonalds trick r treat thing out now. 1/4 wins, you buy 4 items and you're pretty likely to win a free small fry or w/e. But the size of the lottery numbers is not comprehensible. You literally can't rationally compare 1/180,000 vs 1/360,000,000. There's no rate of accidents, disease survival, sport team winning, etc that's even close. But people drop $20 instead of $2 because they're 10x more likely! #smh
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Oct 22, 2018 21:03
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just like, buy one ticket and enjoy some brief butterflies in your stomach maybe
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:I think this is the exact part that breaks people's brains. It's also total crap how much it pays out for small wins. Mega # is $2 1 number plus mega is $4. Odds are 1 in 37 and 1 in 89. Think about that. You pay $2. 1 time in 37 you get that $2 back. That's stupid. 1 in 89 you get $4. That's even worse. $2 for $74 spent. $4 for $178 spent. Insanity. No wonder the jackpots grow so high so consistently now.
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Oct 22, 2018 21:21
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I bought $80 in tickets (office pool) and we won $4. Rolled the $4 back in for tomorrows drawing. Told my boss if I win he'll get notice. He'll notice I don't show up to work anymore.
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revmoo posted:I bought $80 in tickets (office pool) and we won $4. He might not though.
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Waltzing Along posted:It's also total crap how much it pays out for small wins. This is why though, cause 1/37 is feasable, amd buying 2x means 1/18. It tricks you into thinking buying 2 is doubling your odds in some meaningful way. 20 tickets is 20/37!!! Iknow its lower, but no one sits and calculates it correctly, thus more of the loving people over with stats.
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:This is why though, cause 1/37 is feasable, amd buying 2x means 1/18. It tricks you into thinking buying 2 is doubling your odds in some meaningful way. 20 tickets is 20/37!!! Iknow its lower, but no one sits and calculates it correctly, thus more of the loving people over with stats. My word! Can you explain how coin flips work, too?!
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Big Beef City posted:My word! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOwLEVQGbrM
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Figure out the smallest amount of money I can donate to get something named after me, and get as many things named after me as possible
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hire attractive young models to walk around New York and London wearing chainmail hauberks, briefly convincing people that they're fashionable and creating a short-lived but baffling fad.
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I'd recriuit a team of elite criminals to break into Notch's house and steal all his stale candy
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build stonehenges with driving distance of major American cities, for the benefit of local witches
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Oct 22, 2018 23:37
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go to a poor apartment building and slip an envelop with like 5000 bucks through every mail slot and drastically change the lives of everyone there while spending a minute fraction of my own wealth
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Oct 22, 2018 23:39
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Guy Goodbody posted:go to a poor apartment building and slip an envelop with like 5000 bucks through every mail slot and drastically change the lives of everyone there while spending a minute fraction of my own wealth 5000 bucks don't fit through a apartment bank mail slot because the mail is a part of the system.
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Guy Goodbody posted:go to a poor apartment building and slip an envelop with like 5000 bucks through every mail slot and drastically change the lives of everyone there while spending a minute fraction of my own wealth *news report* “Meth fueled super orgy enters fifth consecutive week today at local affordable housing project”
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Guy Goodbody posted:go to a poor apartment building and slip an envelop with like 5000 bucks through every mail slot and drastically change the lives of everyone there while spending a minute fraction of my own wealth I’d start doing random poo poo like that. Not a bad idea. Slip homeless people a grand every now and then, depending on my mood at the time.
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I'd build/buy a series of apartment buildings in world capitals that I like and lease the rooms out for free for five year spans to local aspiring writers (also I've obv have an apartment to stay in if I wished it's for me lolol but the govts gotta give me visa IF I WANT ONE)
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Go to Vegas and hire out a bunch of the prozzies as bang maids for a lucky nursing home for that month Maybe get some gigolos out of Cirque for the old ladies Rename the nursing home Stephen Paddock's Thousand Loads
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Waltzing Along posted:It's also total crap how much it pays out for small wins. The odds are horrid which is why I only throw a few dollars I won't miss at it when jackpots get huge. I'd rather have a nonzero chance than a zero chance but because the chances are horrid I don't bank on it and play infrequently. Probably the main thing that drives lotto sales in general is hope. I used to work in a convenience store and you have no idea how many broke as gently caress people would come in desperately hoping that they could win some kind of big prize. It was literally the only hope they had. It was heartbreaking to be honest but this was also in the heart of the rust belt where absolutely loving everything sucks otherwise. As for what I'd do with it...well I guess I'd pay for Lowtax's spine and get a nicer computer maybe I don't know. Pay off my car or something?
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Start a stock footage company that specializes in footage of cars going off cliffs. Any kind of car, from Acuras to Volvos. We pushed it off a cliff and filmed it and you can use the footage in your movie for a small fee.
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Oct 23, 2018 01:10
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Here's an idea: diarrhea shelf
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Oct 23, 2018 01:11
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Bought a few tickets a couple hours ago. Suck it losers! I'm gonna be riiiiiiiiiiiich! 
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Kuato posted:I’d start doing random poo poo like that. Not a bad idea. Slip homeless people a grand every now and then, depending on my mood at the time. If you are even seeing homeless people, you are doing something wrong. I mean, maybe as your driver shuttles you from one location to another you'll see someone out the window.
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Bought one for my local lotto. Odds aren't quite as lovely as the Powerball or Mega Millions, but it's still probably $1 down the drain.
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binge crotching posted:Bought one for my local lotto. Odds aren't quite as lovely as the Powerball or Mega Millions, but it's still probably $1 down the drain. The Irish Lotto used to have a very small number of numbers and is one of the ones that was bought out from time to time before they changed it.
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I'd buy Picasso's bones.
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what do you think old man lowtax would sell the forums for?
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The odds are horrid which is why I only throw a few dollars I won't miss at it when jackpots get huge. I'd rather have a nonzero chance than a zero chance but because the chances are horrid I don't bank on it and play infrequently. Probably the main thing that drives lotto sales in general is hope. I used to work in a convenience store and you have no idea how many broke as gently caress people would come in desperately hoping that they could win some kind of big prize. It was literally the only hope they had. It was heartbreaking to be honest but this was also in the heart of the rust belt where absolutely loving everything sucks otherwise. Statistics are part of my job and I buy one every now and then. I'll never understand the look of confusion some pretentious dicks give when they hear this and they're like "but you know the odds". If you can't get $2 (like a candy bar's) worth of enjoyment thinking about what you'd do with the money then just smdh I do find I'm more likely to buy one when I'm less satisfied with my life situation
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DrPossum posted:Statistics are part of my job and I buy one every now and then. I'll never understand the look of confusion some pretentious dicks give when they hear this and they're like "but you know the odds". If you can't get $2 (like a candy bar's) worth of enjoyment thinking about what you'd do with the money then just smdh +Med EV
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DrPossum posted:what do you think old man lowtax would sell the forums for? 1 million dollars would do it. He'd be glad to be rid of it and able to do something else. That's just a guess, though. He could have sold it for multiple millions of dollars 10 years ago.
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Waltzing Along posted:1 million dollars would do it. He'd be glad to be rid of it and able to do something else. That's just a guess, though. I'd pay him 10 million for the forums, and then hire him to do the exact same stuff he's doing now. Then I'd track down Radium and hire him to redesign the forums. Chaos reigns.
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Lowtax is radium. Don't you get it? Lowtax. Is. Radium.
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