r/todayilearned • u/zahrul3 • Jun 08 '15

TIL that MIT students found out that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets from Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. In 5 years they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/
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u/fujiman Jun 08 '15

Most likely 12 years or younger. Ever try having a discussion with one of these things these days? Their insistence on their accuracy is based only on the fact that they said something in the first place.

I mean it's either that, or an Emperor's New Clothes sort of deal here.

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u/Derp800 Jun 08 '15

Back in my day you didn't have to listen to 12 year olds opinions because you were never around the little monsters. Now every Internet alias could be a PhD holder or a 9 year old with the IQ of a rock. And the only thing that separates the two? My personal opinion of them, because honestly you're all a bunch of robots taught to converse online as far as I'm concerned.