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Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second
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#22I think for most people, they just think _someone_ will win eventually and you can't win if you don't play, so why not part with some (hopefully) disposable income that could turn their entire life around.
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#23Neat. I like that multiple clients get the same websocket data, as opposed to each just running their own simulation. I will be watching https://lotteryeverysecond.lffl.me/wins with interest. ;)
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#24> Approximately 4.6 years of continuous play, every second, to see a single jackpot win.
This seems pretty reasonable, actually! Somehow it makes the 320M seem manageable.
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#25I think people understand the odds are small. However, perhaps they perceive their chances of meaningfully turn around their life in other ways have even smaller odds. i.e. improbable vs actually impossible. At least the lottery doesn't care about your current circumstance and everyone has an equal (equally small) chance. Secondly, because everyone realizes the chances are small, the real product being sold is Hope.…
I know people in the neighbourhood/street I was born, who still live there (well over 50 years in the same house) who bought the postcode lottery tickets since forever, 12x a year, never won anything; this year it fell in the adjacent area code... It must hurt.
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#26I think it would be interesting to have a version where the chosen numbers were the same every time. We all know the odds won't change but there are countless people who play the lottery this way. They have "their" numbers and they never deviate for fear that if they do, that's when "their" numbers would pop up and they'd miss out on the win.
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#27The amount of time I spent watching this page is a nice reminder of why I have a rule to never buy lottery tickets. See also: Simulation Clicker. I know how my brain works these days.
Why not buy lottery tickets? The only thing smaller than the ridiculously small chance of winning is absolute zero, from never playing. Bad odds are still odds :)
If $DEITY wants me to win, the winning lottery ticket will be dropped by someone and it’ll blow into my car and get lodged onto the dashboard.
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#28I just saw a 57.1% percent match go by.. That sure would have convinced me to buy more tickets.. :-)
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#29A few years ago I wrote a script to compare my numbers against all previous drawings. Still didn’t “win”!
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#30I just saw a 57.1% percent match go by.. That sure would have convinced me to buy more tickets.. :-)
That would only be like $7 in powerball ;)