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Re:How the Powerball rules were tweaked to make the game an ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @01:04PM (#10896193)
The lottery is a government subsidy to bog, established, non-tech-industry, non-startup firms. HN, naturally, dislikes it.

DFS, OTOH, is a quasilegal (at best) industry with new, rapidly scaling, tech-heavy firms.

The fact that both are gambling is really a side issue to how they relate to HN's focus and biases.

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Re:How the Powerball rules were tweaked to make the game an ... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:25PM (#10897626)
So DFS is literally Uber for lottery? That would explain quite a lot about why there's a split on HN between the people who hate it and the people who love it.
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