- ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) English60•2 months ago
Sent this to my friend at AWS and he said it was already all-over their internal Memes Slack channel. At least their engineers and project managers are in on the joke. 😁
- Prunebutt ( @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ) 23•2 months ago
Ever heard of this game called “Star Citizen”?
- macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.org ) 13•2 months ago
from 714 millions to 814 millions in one day. nice :D
- AstralPath ( @AstralPath@lemmy.ca ) 21•2 months ago
I’d spend 100M in a month easily. Especially after I’ve bankrolled GrapheneOS, Ladybird and all my favourite FOSS projects. They also didn’t say anything about charity which IMO isn’t gifting. Once I feel like I’ve sufficiently contributed to society I’d buy a 50ft sailboat, pimp the shit out of it with solar and fuck off forever.
With the billion I’d establish a fund that pays out monthly to any projects I deem worthy and funds all food banks in my local area indefinitely.
- Jolteon ( @Jolteon@lemmy.zip ) 7•2 months ago
Then maybe graphene OS would be able to get enough people to maintain non-pixel builds.
- intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 5•2 months ago
Especially after I’ve bankrolled GrapheneOS, Ladybird and all my favourite FOSS projects.
According to the book The Starfish and the Spider, which is about decentralized organization versus centralized organization, the Spanish Empire was able to defeat the previously-undefeatable Apache resistance by giving gifts of horses to some of the Apache leaders. It provided them status, creating a hierarchy, turning the Apache society into the sort of thing that could be destroyed in conventional battle.
Not saying it’s a very tight analogy, but I would be wary of changes in team culture resulting from a project going from volunteer based to well-funded.
Obviously open source projects need resources, such as servers and github accounts and all that, but spirits change when resource flows change, and projects excel or flub on spirit.
- NoIWontPickAName ( @NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth ) 11•2 months ago
Treasury bonds here I come
- Empricorn ( @Empricorn@feddit.nl ) English2•2 months ago
Investments are probably covered under “gambling”.
- YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH ( @YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub ) 10•2 months ago
Surely the answer to this is to buy really short term options. Bad case is you lose all the money and get a billion. Good case is that you make even more money.
- win95 ( @win95@lemmy.zip ) English9•2 months ago
Easy. Buy 100 homes in my city. Become a landlord. Barely ask rent so it’s technically not gifting. Use my infinite money to maintain the homes so people have affordable decent housing. Profit for all!
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 9•2 months ago
Would donations count as gifting? There are so many FOSS projects that could use the cash inflow.
If it doesn’t count, well, prepare for a deluge of hentai to show up in a month.
- volvoxvsmarla ( @volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee ) 3•2 months ago
I was thinking about not donating to charity but buying stuff directly and asking them for support to ship it. Basically that makes you buy and not gift. If you buy 1 gigaton of rice for Ethiopia (I have no clue how many people a gigaton of rice would feed and I also have no clue whether Ethiopians need any rice) from Costco, well, then you have spent the money on it. Fuck it, maybe buy a boat. A ferry to ship it all directly. Buy land and don’t gift but let workers work there. For free. For eternity. Oh you happen to pay them 50 times the average salary of their country? Well you’re probably a bad businessman but you’re not gifting. Pay the lawyers to make a bulletproof testament where you explicitly state that these poor fellas will never own the land but will for eternity be able to use it for free until the sun explodes.
And then bribe. Bribe away the heartache, bribe away the pain. Bribe the SCOTUS to retire. Bribe Putin to stop the war and fuck off. Bribe Trump to fuck off. Bribe Musk to get a vasectomy and fuck off. I mean you’re basically just lobbying at that point but we all know that that’s bribing and not gifting.
- Underwaterbob ( @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ) English2•2 months ago
I also have no clue whether Ethiopians need any rice
The Ethiopian famine was 30 years ago. Not that they haven’t had troubles off-and-on since then.
- MNByChoice ( @MNByChoice@midwest.social ) 3•2 months ago
Yes. You can buy their support though.
- dumbass ( @dumbass@leminal.space ) English8•2 months ago
I’ll just pay someone 100 million to punch the genie
- Programmer Belch ( @programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•2 months ago
Crash the dollar by entering the whole amount in the stock market? Or are stocks also considered gambling?
- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) 8•2 months ago
The problem is that it’s so much money that you can clear out the inventory of almost anything you would buy while only chewing a few percent off the bankroll. Provided you can close on them in time, buying up some high end houses, or just a whole lot of land, is probably your best bet. Being a cash deal on your end helps move the paperwork faster. They’re also durable goods that don’t need a warehouse to be stored, and don’t need any maintenance for a while.
- Hossenfeffer ( @Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ) English2•2 months ago
The problem is that it’s so much money that you can clear out the inventory of almost anything you would buy while only chewing a few percent off the bankroll.
- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) 2•2 months ago
Then you have to pay to berth it somewhere, and for maintenance because your boat touches salt water. Land will just sit there until you can flip it, though you do have some property taxes and insurance. A handful of acres around Beverly Hills will do it.
- Hossenfeffer ( @Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ) English2•2 months ago
I like boats. Plus I’m a billionaire now.
- AndrasKrigare ( @AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org ) 8•2 months ago
The Brewster’s Millions genie
- fuzzzerd ( @fuzzzerd@programming.dev ) English3•2 months ago
Great movie. In this case, at end of this one you can have assets and apparently also tell your friends what you’re up to.
- Cordyceps ( @Cordyceps@sopuli.xyz ) 6•2 months ago
Just buy all the Star Citizen goodies
- zbyte64 ( @zbyte64@awful.systems ) 6•2 months ago
Buy a supreme Court justice with the first 100M, then the rest of the court with the other Billion.
- stiephelando ( @stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de ) 8•2 months ago
You’re overpaying, justices aren’t that pricey
- acargitz ( @theacharnian@lemmy.ca ) 5•2 months ago
Warhammer!!
- nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•2 months ago
Genie: There are 5 rules…
- acargitz ( @theacharnian@lemmy.ca ) 4•2 months ago
I mean c’mon genie, that barely covers my Kharadron, Drukhari, and Votan dream collections.
- macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.org ) 5•2 months ago
I would buy so many windmill permits with that money.