Comments on: The suboptimal way to “win” https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2008/04/09/the-suboptimal-way-to-win/ miscellaneous musings and random rantings Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:12:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: Eric https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2008/04/09/the-suboptimal-way-to-win/comment-page-1/#comment-3992 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:26:27 +0000 http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=656#comment-3992 If the lottery used that criterion, they could claim that more than 35 million Californians “win” the lottery every month. :-)

At least those people are net cash neutral, which means that they on average doing more than $0.50 better than the people that buy tickets.

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.” — Joshua, in _Wargames_

]]> By: klaxophone https://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/2008/04/09/the-suboptimal-way-to-win/comment-page-1/#comment-3991 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:34:12 +0000 http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=656#comment-3991 Maybe the million winners are the people who don’t play.

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