I think he meant Powercall.
Look - it features an app for Yelp!
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and HYPERYELP!
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I never pay the extra dollar on lottery tickets and NEVER check to see if I would have won.
Printing the âextraâ stuff on the ticket whether you buy it or not feels like intimidation tactics.
âWhat the hell are we going to do with all these Adams?â
âI have an idea!â
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just because hoping to win is irrational doesnât mean itâs insane as long as people can control their gambling. poverty leads to gambling, drinking, drugs, and other reckless behavior that may lead to addiction.
It took me 49,000 years but I finally won $1 Million! It cost me $8 Million to do it howeverâŚ
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Next time try using more money faster!
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fastest way to own 1 million dollars? start with 10 million.
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I read Steve Martinâs important book: âHow I Turned a Million in Real Estate into Twenty Five Dollars in Cashâ
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They say that the chances of a bomb being on the plane youâre on are astronomical. So itâs best to bring your own bomb, because of the odds of TWO bombs being on it âŚ
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Ludicrous speed!
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Yeah, I canât wait for season 2 of âBetter Call Powersall.â
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The payouts for all but the top prize are fixed. If you match 5 numbers, you get a million dollars, regardless of whether the jackpot was $20 million or $1.3 billion. If you match 4 numbers the payout is $100. (And the odds of either of those outcomes is pitifully slim.)
spending 1.5 billion, between now and the next drawing, might do it.
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I like to think of it as division: you have: very_small_chance / 0.0 = infinity ( I KNOW itâs not infinity, itâs undefined); so 1 ticket is infinitely better than no ticket.
Similarly, I think of the 2nd ticket as the most cost-effective way to double your odds. Diminishing returns after thatâŚ
Maybe Iâm saying the same thing as you?
/if this was /r/trees, thereâd be a [7] in here somewhereâŚ
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But wouldnât the increase in splitting (really the decrease in your winnings) be a very small increase? Seems to be that, sure pseudo-random-number-generators (PRNGs) have flaws, or dice that arenât obviously tampered with(1) will be so close to âfairâ, at least for lotteries in the 10-100million range, it would be very hard to spot?
Some of the flaws in PRNGs seem vanishingly small. Sure, technically, not âfairâ. But if the flaws are at the 1-in-a-billion level I think weâd never notice at the lottery level.
I have no evidence or learnings that qualify me in this subject. Just gut feel.
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For instance, if a die has drilled-out and paint-filled dots, the 6 side must be lighter(2) or heavier(3)
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Assuming they donât correct for this, and Iâm sure they do, 'cause if I thought about it, itâs not that complicated.
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Does the extra paint in the 6 dots combined make up for the opposing 1? But now I think the 3 pairs of opposing faces always add to 7⌠to the dice box!
You use Casino dice, flat faced pips, edges like a razor.
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But I just realized⌠it is better to use the PRNG, not pick your own. Pick your own is worse because people are crappy RNGs⌠the âbirthday effectâ alone highly biases 1âŚ12 and 13âŚ31, lucky numbers like 7 or 11, etc.
Speaking of which, 7 is the dominate lucky number in my culture (white, middle-aged, north North American male). And I think 11 is big in some Eastern Asian cultures.
Which leads me to wonder: what other lucky numbers are there? And why?
I think 7 is considered lucky as itâs the number of moving celestial objects visible to the naked eye: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter. Thereâs probably many other reasonsâŚ
/reply-to-self⌠I hope I donât break nuthinâ
1.3 billionâŚthatâs about 650 million votes cast that say wealth isnât earned or worked for, its awarded
Maybe Powerball should declare its personhood and run for President?
The Citizens, United, will never be defeated. 
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