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MilkyPastel wrote

Reply to What would you do if you won $1,000,000 USD? by Rambler

Year One& Two: First, I would undoubtably go out for the single most expensive meal of my life at a michelain star restaurant. I'll say that would cost $500. I still have 2 years of college left, and Ideally I would want to invest it all during that time, but realistically I am only human so I would take out $30K to live on for a year, and an additional $20k for tuition for both semesters that year. I absolutely could survive on less than 30K for a year, but knowing my own foolish spending habits when I have money I'm accounting for stupid spending. I would invest my remaining $949,500. Good hedge funds report 15% annual returns, so going by that metric after a year I would have $1,091,925. Take out another $50K for living and tuition, then reinvest and I have $1,198,213.75 by the time I finish college.

Year Three: From here I would accelerate my 10 year plan. Looking at landwatch.com I can see there is an 80 acre property available for $250,000 in Montana already with power and septic hook up, I'd buy that. Until the property is ready I would move out and rent a hypothetical house nearby. Idk what rent actually costs out there but for simplicity I'll stick to 30K a year living expenses, a factor a medium uhaul into that since SO and I dont have too many belongings. Once we get to MT I wouldn't do much with the property for the rest of the year, but I would take $2K to upgrade equipment for my soap making business. After these expenses, I am left with $916,213.75, which never left my hedge fund investment account so by the end of the year it has accumulated to $1,053,645.81.

Year Four-Seven: I just googled how much it costs to build a house, and and results vary wildly. SO and I want a house that isn't too big, but also want a conservatory and a fully functional laboratory so we can both work from home so I'm just going to guess this would be a $1 million home. Obvi we can't pay for this all outright or we would go broke immediately, so I'll say we take 4 years to build it, and split the cost over that time. By now we should both have careers, and no longer need to live off of the passive income from interest so I'll no longer be taking out 30K for living expenses. 250K out of our savings, with the remainder compounded annually at 15% for 4 years:

Year Four: $1,053,645.81- 250,000= 803,645.81 x 1.15= $924,192.68

Year Five: $924,192.68- 250,000= 674,192.68 x 1.15= $775,321.58

Year Six: $775,321.58- 250,000= 525,321.58 x 1.15= $604,119.83

Year Seven: $604,119.83- 250,000= 354,119.83 x 1.15= $407.237

Year 8: Alright, my dream house is built, I've had 5 years since college to perfect the art of perfumery and introduce perfumes to my soap business, and now I have a fully operational chemistry lab to start refining my own ingredients. I imagine SO and I are making enough to live comfortably on by this point, so I invest the entire remaining $407.237 into my perfume ingredient refinery. Greenhouses, aromatic plants, trade agreements with farms overseas where rare aromatic plants grow, that I wouldn't be able to grow in the U.S. (cinnamon, myrrh, etc.) Through wise investing I stretched the 1 million and used it to establish my dream, in only 8 years.

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Wahaha wrote

Reply to What would you do if you won $1,000,000 USD? by Rambler

That little amount of money isn't even enough to make me dream. I'd likely just put it in my account and not care much about it either way. It's something nice to have, but not life changing. You'd have to add at least four zeroes. With ten billion in paper money I could do some basic dreaming. Still not enough for big dreams, but it would be a start.

I'd invest in the creation of an anime studio in Japan that would churn out all the anime I want that nobody makes. It would likely cost a couple of million per series and I'd want hundreds of them.

But yeah, with just some pocket change, I wouldn't do anything.

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liminal wrote (edited )

Reply to Microsoft Wants To "Read People's Brainwaves" To Mine Cryptocurrency by onion

a brain wave or body heat emitted from the user when the user performs the task provided by an information service provider, such as viewing an advertisement or using certain internet services, can be used in the mining process

Couple this with the wrist controller designed by Facebook. This way corporations will be able generate wealth in a more direct way than selling ad space or personal data. Funny that when they talk about an "information service provider" they refer to an ad company.

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Reply to comment by Rambler in Could you add a picture/media viewer ? by DeusExMachina

JS dev here. One of the things I really like about this site is that it is usually fast even when using the tor network.

Of course, for the best security, people should always have JavaScript disabled when using tor, but tor with JavaScript enabled is better than nothing and some people may use the site that way.

I noticed in the Reddit enhancement suite code that DeusExMachina posted, they are using typescript and lodash.

I would consider using vanilla JavaScript to minimize bloat for people who use anonymity networks. Some people who are really into privacy deliberately only use old computers too. So maybe just use the compiled JavaScript generated by the typescript. (It won't be as easy to read as the typescript though) Or use the typescript as a guide and write some similar code from scratch. Lodash isn't necessary either.

Are you still looking for help with this feature request or are you already on it?

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onion wrote

Reply to Police officer killed and suspect shot dead after vehicle attack at US Capitol by Rambler

“The U.S. Government is the #1 enemy of Black people!" a caption on one video read. In another post on the Instagram account, Green wrote last week that he believed Farrakhan had saved him "after the terrible afflictions I have suffered presumably by the CIA and FBI, government agencies of the United States of America."

Responding to a comment on that post, Green wrote, “I have suffered multiple home break ins, food poisonings, assaults, unauthorized operations in the hospital, mind control.” https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/capitol-security-threat-04-02-21/h_ffa25ab3eab707b711515c0c863c887a

Seems like he was mainly motivated by these beliefs rather than Nation of Islam.

The continued existence of agencies like the CIA, FBI and NSA is just bad for the mental health of anyone who knows enough about what they're capable of and what they have been responsible for. It's especially bad for anyone with schizophrenia or schizotypal personality disorder. But even for normal people, it's bad. "The government is collecting information about me and they might use something against me later" should be a paranoid delusion, not a real thing.

I think most people who think they are being gang stalked are schizophrenic or schizotypal. But I'm guessing at least a few normal people have been experimented on. Any intelligence agency would be interested in science of torturing someone in an untraceable way that drives them crazy. The "sound attacks" in Cuba back in 2017 is an example of some government using an untraceable method to harass people at a distance.

I read one explanation on a website about gang stalking. It described a scenario similar to this.

You go to the grocery store, and someone who passes you is looking you in the eyes angrily while clicking a pen". You go out to your car after paying and in the parking lot, you see a different person angrily looking you in the eyes while clicking a pen. You go to a restaurant. A customer at a table across from you is angrily looking at you in the eyes while clicking a pen.

I thought, you know, since the government can easily track people through their smartphones, this wouldn't be that hard to pull off. And it would even make a normal person really paranoid. They would start getting nervous any time they see someone holding a pen or clicking a pen. They might start noticing a lot of coincidences that are benign, like a series of people wearing red.

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