Presently_Absent

An artist made it?? How do you know he/she didn't fuck it up? Did he/she show the solution to a proper cryptographer to verify its solvable?

I met Ike once and was very surprised that when I shook his hand it was like a wet noodle. That and he was very very short.

How is that $10m lottery structured? I'm curious as to how/why insurance would cover it

https://youtu.be/rLDgQg6bq7o

This is such a great idea - I hope to everyone's sake that it catches on!

Something that has always bugged me about playing the lottery is when people think they have "doubled their odds" or "doubled the chance" of winning when they buy two tickets. I think of it this way - if you have a one in five billion chance of winning a lottery where you have to match numbers to win, buying two tickets just means you have two 1-in-5-billion chances to win. Your odds aren't really any better, you just have two opportunities.

I see it as different from a raffle - say there are 100 tickets for sale - the more tickets you buy the better your chance because the winner is definitely being selected from that group, so the more tickets you have, the better.

Is there any math to back this up, or have I been wrong all this time? I feel like this has a lot to do with the psychological side... If you think more tickets = "better odds" then you are probably more likely to spend more and more...