Day 1,995: dispel, odds, stacked, compulsive

Being more open about that practice, or even relying on it less, would do a lot to dispel fears that the odds are stacked against the player.

Criminalising gambling would deprive tens of millions of people of entertainment and drive the most compulsive bettors underground, where they would be more vulnerable to abuse.

America’s gambling boom should be celebrated, not feared

Artwork of the day 
Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares Using the Odd and Even Numbers of a Telephone Directory (detail)
Francois_Morellet
Date: 1971
Style: Op Art
Genre: abstract

Word of the day 
dispel: to remove fears, doubts, or false ideas, usually by proving them wrong or unnecessary:
odds: in gambling (= the activity of risking money guessing the result of something), a probability expressed as a number:
stacked: covered or filled with a large amount of things:
compulsive: doing something a lot and unable to stop doing it:

Quote of the day
“Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.”

― Francis Bacon