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pflenker
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Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every seco...
A teacher of mine used to say:
Lottery is a tax for people who don’t understand statistics.
omani
2 days ago
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you probably mean "stochastics".
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KellyCriterion
2 days ago
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I would translate to: "from a stochastic perspective one can win - from a statistic perspective, its very unlikely"
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Lottery is a tax for people who don’t understand statistics.