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riffrafftoday at 7:33 AM1 replyview on HN

> The proliferation of gambling over so many domains has radicalized me against it in a way that I didn't think would've been possible a few years ago.

I grew up in Italy when sport betting was illegal and you had to do it through illegal channels, and I did it now and then like everyone else, and thought we should totally make it legal.

At some point all betting, slot machines etc.. became legal and it's been a disaster and I'm also totally radicalized against it.


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rvnxtoday at 8:01 AM

The best solution is through education. For example by showing in big letters the return-to-player ratio:

On 100 EUR you will get → 79 back, if you put them again in the machine you will get → 62.41 → 49.30 → 38.95 → 30.77…