I've always looked at it the the other way - being that lucky would mean you have even less chance of something else lucky happening, good time to save your money
The lottery ticket part makes no sense. Statistically if such an improbable event just happened to him, then chance of it happening again should be even more improbable.
No, the events are independent. If you have a UUID collide, your chance of winning the lottery if you enter it is exactly the same as it was before the UUID collision.
> If you have a UUID collide, your chance of winning the lottery is exactly the same as it was before the UUID collision.
True, but only if you were already going to play the lottery anyway.
If you don't normally play the lottery and the UUID collision combined with superstition is what enticed you to play, then the UUID collision will have raised your chances of winning the lottery from 0% to slightly higher than 0%.
