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If I win, every stripper on the east coast gets $1,000 cash- eventually- it'll take some time to work my way around.
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The types of idiots that usually win the lottery would probably be better off with the annuity. The annuity is super lovely for anyone with sense, but if you don't have any sense at least you can't run yourself into the ground immediately.
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Jan 10, 2016 02:02
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Bought 1 ticket, because really 1 ticket, 10 tickets, 100 tickets for all intents and purposes it's all the same.
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Jan 10, 2016 02:07
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If I win I vow everyone in D&D will have anime butt avatars.
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Jan 10, 2016 02:09
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Oooh, actual big B billion.
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Jan 10, 2016 06:19
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I wish they'd bump the ball numbers up to 90 so you could play ascii numbers. I wanna play 73-77-71-65-89-33.
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Jan 10, 2016 06:32
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ASCII for "IMGAY!"
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Jan 10, 2016 14:06
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Just gotta hide out until the next giant winner takes the heat off.
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Jan 10, 2016 15:37
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800M ceases to be "hire a good money manager" territory. It's "literally hire the best money manager on this gay rear end planet" money.
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Jan 10, 2016 16:16
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Tots posted:Doesn't take a genius to do it yourself. Just max out the 401k and invest in some property, doesn't seem hard to me. Setting up a trust for yourself seems like a pro move. That way if you get your rear end sued off you can only lose so much.
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Jan 10, 2016 16:44
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czarmonger posted:How many people in this thread actually believe there is even the slightest possibility of winning big on these racket? What a hot take. I don't think anyone in this thread knows what 1:300,000,000 means. e: scratch offs are gently caress, and anyone who buys them is an idiot, but $2 for an idle fantasy is- I mean hell a coke zero is roughly the same price.
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Jan 10, 2016 18:29
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BigBoss posted:A Lexus LX. They're fantastic, luxurious, and still totally practical. Part of me is all, yeah a Lexus or something, high end consumer and practical. Part of me is like Aston Martin Vanquish which I would have no business driving.
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Jan 10, 2016 19:46
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When I win I'm going to drown in a sea of gay dicks.
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Jan 11, 2016 00:03
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jon joe posted:If any of you win and can't handle the impending pressure, DON'T PANIC, I will happily take that ticket off your hands and publicly declare, then secretly give you half. I do this, because I am a good person, who is always looking for a way to help. Same, but I will only take 45% because I'm an even better person.
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Jan 11, 2016 01:08
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LATimes has a good simulator because you can put a million virtual dollars in and watch it grind away to roughly one hundred thousand.
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Jan 11, 2016 17:46
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a face you can trust
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Jan 11, 2016 17:55
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I want in on this quadrillion dollar jackpot.
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Jan 11, 2016 18:05
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Inept posted:how does the lottery generate random numbers for people's tickets? computers are bad at random numbers, so what do they do??? Algorithms can't generate random numbers, but you can sample all types of truly random noise with specialized hardware. I think some CPUs even have built in hardware. For the lottery though I assume they still use those machines with numbered balls.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:13
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Inept posted:no not the balls, the tickets people get at stores. I'm wondering since computers are so bad at random numbers if like 15 people could have the same exact ticket that ends up winning or something stupid. probably not since I've never heard of it but eh Sorry, probably specialized hardware. The first search result I found said, "computers are particularly good at picking random numbers," so I hit the back button to find something written by a non-idiot.
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Jan 11, 2016 22:19
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gently caress giving to charity. With that type of money you could start your own charity.
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Jan 11, 2016 23:44
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Three Olives, why do all your plans involve making people miserable? Isn't your posting enough?
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Jan 11, 2016 23:59
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GORDON posted:If I win I am going to hire Miss America to be my official rear end-wiper. If I win I am going to hire you to be my official rear end-wiper.
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Jan 12, 2016 01:40
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900M is so much money that a dumb redneck doing the dumb redneck things that run lottery winners out of money won't even work.
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Jan 12, 2016 22:45
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It's good to keep busy, but I can think of about a hundred better ways to keep busy.
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Jan 12, 2016 23:34
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I'd give two weeks notice, and they'd probably offer me way more money to stay, which would piss me off and I'd change my mind about giving notice.
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Jan 13, 2016 00:32
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If I win I'll put a ten million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden's head. I know he's been dead for years, but I think owning his skull would be baller.
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Jan 13, 2016 02:04
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Tubesock Holocaust posted:Let the winner be a super-religious 65-year-old woman and have a televangelist continuously swindle her out of millions upon millions of dollar with schemes and promises that become ever more ludicrous with each passing year. Season 3 of Fargo sounding hella good.
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Jan 13, 2016 02:07
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potee posted:I hope it's some smug STEM graduate who bought one single ticket because the expected value was positive I hope it's me too.
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Jan 13, 2016 02:23
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Play 1 2 3 4 5 6. It's just as likely as any combination and if you win you get to be the person who won a billion dollars with President Skroob's luggage combination.
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Jan 13, 2016 17:26
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If you picked the white number randomly from 32-69 you may decrease the probability of a collision a little. 30% of players pick their own numbers and I bet out of those a lot are birthday numbers.
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Jan 13, 2016 17:57
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Three Olives posted:Yes but it is more likely that others are doing to same thing and there would be a massive split. I found one article saying 1-2-3-4-5-6 gets played thousands of times per week in the british lotto, so it's probably the same for the powerball. That would be pretty nasty.
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Jan 13, 2016 18:05
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New strategy, spend 2 dollars on one ticket and spend another 2 dollars buying the hobo outside a bag of those corn chips he likes. The karma increases your chance of winning by at least a factor of four.
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Jan 13, 2016 18:51
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But you had to imagine the breasts that big, which extends the realm of imagination, which means the breasts are even bigger than that- Could Applewhite imagine breasts so large that even he couldn't draw them?
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Jan 13, 2016 20:30
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Automatic Retard posted:Aussie here, i bought 2 tickets online from Australia. You got scammed... I mean more so than the rest of us.
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Jan 13, 2016 23:57
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Automatic Retard posted:DOH. How so? There's no legit way to buy lotto tickets outside the states that participate in powerball.
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Jan 14, 2016 00:31
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Real talk none of us are going to win, but what we are going to do is rob the winner. Who's in?
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Jan 14, 2016 00:46
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I would create jobs. They would all be stripper jobs. But they would be jobs.
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Jan 14, 2016 01:24
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FDIC only covers $250,000 per account. But that's per bank, and per type of account. You could easily get a few million insured by spreading it across multiple banks and accounts. You probably wouldn't put the vast majority of the money in a bank though.
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Jan 14, 2016 01:29
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I ground through a half a million tickets on the latimes simulator and didn't win poo poo. I'm good to go.
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Use os.urandom. On Windows it uses CryptGenRandom and on Linux and OSX it uses /dev/urandom.
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