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15 Post author: CronoDAS 28 January 2016 01:30PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 29 January 2016 12:38:15AM 0 points [-]

There's a nonzero probability that the lottery is a complete scam, and the winners are entirely fictional. (The lottery in 1984 worked like this, but I'm not paranoid enough to believe this is true in real life.)

Comment author: gjm 29 January 2016 02:09:19PM 3 points [-]

a nonzero probability

Sure, but a small enough one that I don't think it makes much difference to anything here. I might be missing something, though; if you disagree, would you like to say why?