• Stern@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “Can I invest in crypto”

    “I already said no throwing it away”

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    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!

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      Buy $20 for $100 million. If you can “buy” nft’s then Idk why you can’t buy something with less value.

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        If you can “buy” nft’s then Idk why you can’t buy something with less value.

        I’ll tell you why: because there’s nothing with less value than an nft.

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          I just remember the day, as a software dev with a solid understanding of Blockchain, my older dev neighbor started explaining how NFTs worked

          I thought he was confused or stupid or something.

          “Wait, so like you have these super rare images, proof you own it on a Blockchain, and a link to the place they’re all publicly hosted?”

          Him: “Yep”

          “And the only use for these right now is as a profile picture?”

          Him: Shrug, “yeah, people use them for discord and stuff”

          “But… Couldn’t you just download the image and use it anyways?”

          Him: “Yeah, it’s all publicly hosted”

          And it was about then my brain locked up. I did multiple hours of research later, sure I had to be missing something

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      Property can take a while to close — offer to title in under 30 days is on the quick side.

      Of course, you could probably close very fast if you offered 100M cash on a 10M property…

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        If you’re buying vacant land and paying cash, you can close really quickly as there’s nothing in need of inspection, and loan processing times aren’t a factor… I have a buddy who just purchased 100+ acres of vacant land from a logging company. He paid cash and was able to close in just a few weeks.

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          yeah, usually closing time is just buffer time for people to get their affairs in order, move out, inspections, lawyer stuff, etc. If you offer straight up cash and pay a boatload to the lawyers to get the paperwork done up ASAP, you can close likely within a couple weeks

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      In “Bewster’s Millions” he also had to have nothing of value at the end.

      So yes that is a good method for this formula of the question.

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    Easy! Just spend the month in a US hospital without insurance

    Hopefully the billion will cover the rest of the bill

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    Genie never said they’d give me a 100M to spend in the first place. No way I’d be able to spend 100M that I don’t have.

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      Find someone rich who would believe you have this pact with a génie, and promise them a 100% ROI.

      Thinking of it, that’s not the worst idea for a new sect religion…

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      Or worse if he does, how do you prove to all the anti-money-laundering watchdogs you got free money from a genie? Will you be able to gain control over your instantly conviscated money in 30 days?

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      First get the spending money then do it. In a non-refundable unable to be altered manner (ignoring the magicially manifesting money part)

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    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. 😁

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    Create a serverless function on AWS that calls a serverless function on Azure, which calls a serverless function on gcp which calls a serverless function on Oracle cloud which loops it back to AWS.

    Now stick CloudFlare in between each step of that.

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    I’ll pay for college for a large number of people and pay a lawyer to defend my action as not “giving it away.”

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      Just make them pay you a dollar for the service. Now it’s not giving it away since you are technically getting something out of it.

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    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.

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      Then maybe graphene OS would be able to get enough people to maintain non-pixel builds.

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      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.

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    Give it all away anyway. Screw that genie, wealth hoarding jerk. At worst he kills you and you leave a saintly legacy.