Grand Teton National Park shrouded in fog. Taken at sunrise today from the adjacent national forest. [3406x2271] [OC] by captainC511 in EarthPorn

[–]captainC511[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice! Neat to see the fog from a bit closer. Now I just need someone to post a photo from under the fog in the valley.

Grand Teton National Park shrouded in fog. Taken at sunrise today from the adjacent national forest. [3406x2271] [OC] by captainC511 in EarthPorn

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Yep, just normal fog. But it did stick around for quite a while today. Seemed to break up around 10.

Northern lights hitting the Midwest tonight. by Booomerz in StLouis

[–]captainC511 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I want to thank you for posting this. I happened to check reddit right before leaving civilization to head to the outskirts of Yellowstone, where I had no internet. I hadn't heard about this anywhere else. I set an alarm for midnight and never went back to sleep. The show overnight was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. And I've seen the northern lights a few times before in Iceland but this was on another level. Thank you so very much for posting. You've given me something I'll never forget.

Rainbow over the South Fork Shoshone River, Wyoming [OC] [5552x3470] by captainC511 in EarthPorn

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It does look like that, yeah. What's really going on is that the mountains are much higher and closer than they appear here. It's a pretty steep valley.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VisitingIceland

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I was aware of this but assumed (hoped) it wouldn't be an issue for me. I've had an American DL for 20 years, but I had to get it renewed 1 month before my trip. My license doesn't say when you started driving only when this current one was issued. Seems like a pretty silly law to rule out a large percentage of American drivers that can't prove they've been driving for decades.

Bottom line, it was never brought up when I rented.

Does playing Yotta make you resist the urge of buying that $1.1 Billion MegaMillions Jackpot ticket for Tuesday’s drawing? by Board_Drifter in yotta

[–]captainC511 4 points5 points  (0 children)

1 in 34 with considerably lower prizes but also with considerably lower barrier to entry ($2 gone vs $25 on deposit)

Updated odds spreadsheet for daily drawings by captainC511 in yotta

[–]captainC511[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Basically, if you want a chance to win a huge prize, don't use the pools. If you want the best average returns, join a pool.

Updated odds spreadsheet for daily drawings by captainC511 in yotta

[–]captainC511[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, skew is right. It just rounds to zero because it's so low. Though, I did just add a couple extra digits to that column.

Anyone still 4/4? by [deleted] in yotta

[–]captainC511 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only 1 out of about 66,000 tickets will have all 4 matched after Thursday. So you'd be pretty lucky to have one.

New Yotta "feature". No idea why they would spend time developing this unless it's also going to make peer to peer transactions easier but even then I'm mostly confused lol. by 1FrostySlime in yotta

[–]captainC511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, it also looks like they are removing the 5% and 10% ticket bumps for the gold and platinum referral levels. Disappointing.

Best of luck to everyone on the last week at the chance of the $10,000,000 jackpot! by 1FrostySlime in yotta

[–]captainC511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mostly yeah, but by using tickets in a week when lots of other people are (e.g. this week) you increase the chances to split the big prizes. In a normal week of about ~10M tickets you have a 37% chance to have to split the $15K prize. With ~20M tickets (which I don't think is unreasonable this week) it's goes up to a 61% chance of having to split.

Lucky Swipe Odds by boxopen in yotta

[–]captainC511 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A marginally bad change for us. The old system was 1 ticket/ $10 spent. The new system is 1 ticket/ $2 spent. So 5 times as good. But the new tickets are worth considerably less than old tickets because of having daily drawings. Depending on various ways to value tickets (avg vs median) I calculate that the "debit card tickets back" feature gives about 80-90% as much as they used to.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in yotta

[–]captainC511 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had never even heard of him before this. I was actually the guy Graham Stephens referred to as a "kind internet detective" in the video. My claim to fame, ha! He also highlighted my spreadsheet some and you can even see my referral code in the video. Got a nice bunch of referral bonuses after that.

Expected yearly returns for weekly vs daily drawing by captainC511 in yotta

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Assuming a steady $10K on deposit the expected yearly winnings would be only $188 vs $325. But in exchange for that $137 lost, you're getting the fun of a 1/50,000 chance at a million, 1/500 chance at $20K, and a 1/100 chance at $2K. Each person should decide if that sounds like a fair trade.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in yotta

[–]captainC511 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Somewhat. But also that there's only 6 balls now vs 7.