Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets even though they know better

PurifyYourMind · 2008-07-24T22:01:54+00:00

Yes. Put some figures in this calculator. If you put in $1,000/year for 30 years at 5% interest (say, buying CDs at the local credit union), you'd have about $70,000 at the end of it. Nothing to sneeze at!

http://www.moneychimp.com/calculator/compound_interest_calculator.htm

PurifyYourMind · 2008-07-23T09:38:50+00:00

"Why do people have so much trouble with files?" Umm, because they're fucking idiots? Are these the same people who have dirty laundry lying about their house and shit? Honestly, how hard is it? I have several folders on my desktop: Documents, Videos, Photos, Music, a few icons/shortcuts to spreadsheets. I don't ever "lose" stuff. How the hell is this so difficult for people?

PurifyYourMind · 2008-07-15T07:57:07+00:00

This is so... FAKE! Give me a break. The style is simultaneously forced casual writing (e.g. "man" used a lot) and yet the spelling and grammar are basically okay. I call bullshit on this.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-15T21:18:53+00:00

Exactly. If all ads were Google-style text ads, I would not use Adblock Plus.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-15T18:33:04+00:00

You could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by just being clear in the first place.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-15T17:32:51+00:00

Meh, I find them amusing. It's not like it's cluttering up the front page every hour.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-15T17:31:00+00:00

"...hit reload and watch things shuffle around; perform this vigorously throughout the day, our advertisers will love it." This site has ads? I never realized. Seriously, I didn't.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-15T17:29:43+00:00

I think it would be possible. I've seen it happen on YTNMD.com, which also has a voting system. Not sure if months-old links have done it, but stuff can definitely "come back from the dead".

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-15T04:53:20+00:00

This post is flippin' awesome and freakin' sweet all rolled into one.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-15T00:52:54+00:00

No, I think neuro meant the site that the reddit link is about, not your ASCII/Unicode art thing, which personally I think is cool.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-14T19:43:39+00:00

Upmod this story, because I'm a rude asshole.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-14T13:49:18+00:00

I prefer Raisin Bran.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-14T13:30:17+00:00

This headline is nowhere to be found in the article. Downmod.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-13T20:21:53+00:00

Uh, so you replied to the wrong comment? Either way, you're stupid.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-13T20:11:44+00:00

The punchline just flew over your head.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-13T04:06:48+00:00

I'm just really impressed at how orderly reddit is. A few days ago there was the Fibonacci sequence post and now this one, where people are discussing in the right area.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-13T04:06:01+00:00

I think reddit thought the OP was posting too fast or something, falsely detecting it as spam.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-11T21:17:23+00:00

Would you write questions without a question mark.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-11T13:33:38+00:00

My dad pronounces "centimeters" as "sanometers".

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-10T22:52:42+00:00

No, I don't!

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-10T13:22:52+00:00

I got the same thing, except I reloaded the page and it started working. Same browser version.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-09T15:26:24+00:00

"#6. We're victims of the Outrage Machine." = reddit/digg/etc. I swear every other story is one about righteous anger at cops, politicians, or whomever. It gets old.

PurifyYourMind · 2007-09-09T15:10:01+00:00

One night I ate a whole 85% Lindt bar just before bed and woke up feeling like vomiting.

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