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This headline reads like an Onion article about startups...

This morning, a FB friend shared an article about some startup raising a $17mm round for an app that's supposed to make buying lotto tickets more appealing to or easy for millennials, or something.

I'm not sure which is Onion-ier, frankly.

It's not legal in many US states to buy lotto tickets with a credit card...has to be a debit or gift card.

Hmm.

Not to dissimilar to credit card companies not supporting Online Gambling.

I have a pretty strong hunch that has more to do with fraud prevention than it does consumer protection.

EDIT: Not to imply either is solely one or the other. Just, on a spectrum with those motives as the poles, "can't buy lotto tickets" is probably closer to the "consumer protection" end, and "no online gambling" to the other, purely as a function of the volumes of money that can be moved that way.

Yeah when I first saw the headline an image of a Chinese Erlich Bachman sprang to mind. Although the absurdity of the whole thing is pretty humorous for some reason it made me sad.

dunno why.

It reminded you that Erlich, one of the more amusing and interesting characters from the show, won't be in any future episodes.

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