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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Also I think talking to my half sister helps because her adopted family are incredibly wealthy. Like they the B number in multiples.

    And she works, she lives in a modest house, she doesn't flaunt it. She has had choices and so on but she also learned early that living otherwise makes people around her unhealthy in how they relate to her.

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  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Move to New Zealand
    It’s not a very important country most of the time
    http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    Everyone talking about their mega millions fantasies, coworkers and customers

    My poor person heart can’t handle this

    My coworker and I did and I was marked as being super boring.

    Basically paying off all the debts I have (mortgage, student loans, and such) and that is about. Oh and a new car like a mazda 3.

    That would be like .3% of the money, if that

    Rest goes into investments/blind trust.

    I keep working. And basically keep my life rather the same. I would travel first class though.

    Anything else is dumb and how you end up broke 5 years down the line.

    Pay off your debts, buy some property, set a bit aside for binge spending at the start for random shit you've always wanted, invest the rest safely and live off the returns for the rest of your life, never having to do anything you don't want to do.

    Everyone says this but nobody would actually do it

    Many do. Many don't.

    There is a lot of individual beliefs and thoughts tied to it.

    Are you saying lots of people win the lottery and don't change their lifestyle?

    I never said anything about not changing your lifestyle. But certainly you can not go insane and blow it all too. The sensible thing to do is invest it and live generously for literally doing nothing but existing. And living like that you can definitely upgrade a lot.

    Like, I'd live differently then I do now but I would basically go on vacation more and have nicer things. Probably a second house.

    Biggest thing to avoid is, I swear from reading these stories about broke lottery winners, buying stupidly expensive cars. That seems to bankrupt so many people.

    Oh yeah if there's multiple claims being made here I'm much more on board with somebody saying they think they wouldn't ruin their life if they won them somebody saying they wouldn't change their lifestyle

    If you think you wouldn't spend twice as much a year if your income increased by an order of magnitude, you're mistaken

    Just being able to afford much better food and pay for a personal chef to cook it would be 100% worth it, even at $150k/$200k a year.

    If you won the top prize this would be a great health decision as well as time saver.

  • SealSeal Registered User regular
    Just giving family members enormous lump sums tends to lower their life expectancy quite a bit, better off just paying for college and maybe helping out if a tree or something falls on their house.

    Moon statue is a great idea though, A+. Something solid like steel or titanium, that'll last until the sun swells and swallows the inner planets.

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    edited October 2018
    "Why'd this 21st century asshole land his statue here again? He didn't do anything to help colonize the moon at all."

    BeNarwhal on
  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Id pay off loans and family debt, maybe buy an appropriate house, and put the rest into causes. I like the idea of putting it towards student debt relief and helping people floundering under cascading fine debts.

    Probably save enough of it that id be ok for a while if like my house burns down.

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    the people on the project I'm assigned to for a week are so stupid

    I am going to help the guy at my level convince his boss that the current way of looking at their data makes no sense

    both the boss and the other guy are dumb though! That's ok; I will use small words and make pretty pictures

    yes it is not becoming to talk this way, and yes it is a classic arrogant physicist move to walk in, spend 10 minutes thinking about your problem, and then tell you you're wrong and he can do it better but the thing is

    they're wrong and I can do it better

    I still think you're totally wrong about your coworkers being jerks or in any way socially risible

    But I completely believe everybody does dumb stuff at work all the time and has no idea until somebody new arrives and actually engages their brain on the topic

    Oh I think my perception of the jerks only applies to some. I've now met a lot more quality people.
    The sad thing is, guy at my level knows the way of looking at data is bad but hasn't been able to convince his boss (because he's stuck on weird language/doesn't have an understanding of the problem)
    Will be interesting to see if I can get my message though. I have to spend one day polishing the existing turd to show I've made a good faith effort; for a few seconds I was reluctant but actually based on my past experiences confronting authority figures (...advisors) who are stuck on dumb ideas, it is necessary to put in the effort to disprove their idea even when it's completely and obviously risibly bad

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Having family who already have that type of money I know influences my perspective because many of them have already learned hard lessons for me.

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  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either. One thing that occurred to me is that if you charter a flight there are no TSA lines

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  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Seal wrote: »
    Just giving family members enormous lump sums tends to lower their life expectancy quite a bit, better off just paying for college and maybe helping out if a tree or something falls on their house.

    Moon statue is a great idea though, A+. Something solid like steel or titanium, that'll last until the sun swells and swallows the inner planets.

    Me and Elon would discuss the optimal design and landing site, naturally :P

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Credeiki you can't say risibly in response to a post where I said risible!

    This is not Nam, there are rules

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  • SealSeal Registered User regular
    edited October 2018
    Just go for the largest size possible and scan yourself, naked, into a computer then you can tweak the results to be as amazingly over the top or humble as you like.

    Then you plant on the face of the moon a shining, very naked Adonis.

    Seal on
  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either. One thing that occurred to me is that if you charter a flight there are no TSA lines

    Would you seriously keep working?

    In terms of lifestyle day-to-day, you can hire people to do everything, cook and clean and travel plan and all that. Always fly first class, go to concerts in random cities when you feel like it, buy amazingly expensive designer clothes.

    I do think I'd die of a drug overdose with ~5 years but leading up to it I would own some really cool and well-decorated apartments and alternate between jetsetting and playing videogames forever

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    Everyone talking about their mega millions fantasies, coworkers and customers

    My poor person heart can’t handle this

    My coworker and I did and I was marked as being super boring.

    Basically paying off all the debts I have (mortgage, student loans, and such) and that is about. Oh and a new car like a mazda 3.

    That would be like .3% of the money, if that

    Rest goes into investments/blind trust.

    I keep working. And basically keep my life rather the same. I would travel first class though.

    Anything else is dumb and how you end up broke 5 years down the line.

    Pay off your debts, buy some property, set a bit aside for binge spending at the start for random shit you've always wanted, invest the rest safely and live off the returns for the rest of your life, never having to do anything you don't want to do.

    Everyone says this but nobody would actually do it

    Many do. Many don't.

    There is a lot of individual beliefs and thoughts tied to it.

    Are you saying lots of people win the lottery and don't change their lifestyle?

    I never said anything about not changing your lifestyle. But certainly you can not go insane and blow it all too. The sensible thing to do is invest it and live generously for literally doing nothing but existing. And living like that you can definitely upgrade a lot.

    Like, I'd live differently then I do now but I would basically go on vacation more and have nicer things. Probably a second house.

    Biggest thing to avoid is, I swear from reading these stories about broke lottery winners, buying stupidly expensive cars. That seems to bankrupt so many people.

    Oh yeah if there's multiple claims being made here I'm much more on board with somebody saying they think they wouldn't ruin their life if they won them somebody saying they wouldn't change their lifestyle

    If you think you wouldn't spend twice as much a year if your income increased by an order of magnitude, you're mistaken

    I think the rich have shown us that there's only so much you can spend before you basically go bonkers or completely change your entire lifestyle or something. Like, my income could go up by 10x but what am I gonna spend all that on? If I don't want a mansion, if I don't get a yacht cause I get sea sick, if I don't want stupidly expensive sports cars, etc. My gaming PC can only get so nice, I can only take so many vacations, there's only so much I can spend it on that isn't like philanthropy and setting up my kids so they never have to work either.

    I think in general you do have to cross that "go fuck bonkers" line at some point to really be blowing that much more money then you are now if you live like middle to upper-middle class.

  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    Credeiki you can't say risibly in response to a post where I said risible!

    This is not Nam, there are rules

    whoa I got inceptioned

    that was not conscious, sorry

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
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    Credeiki you can't say risibly in response to a post where I said risible!

    This is not Nam, there are rules

    After I said my family member "retained" their seat on council, I was momentarily unsure of how to describe the fact that we therefore "retained" power through them

    It was harrowing

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either.

    Would you seriously keep working?

    credeiki you're setting chu up for a very easy joke

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  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either. One thing that occurred to me is that if you charter a flight there are no TSA lines

    I have no problem with the security lines at airports. They're quick, and the staff are fun to talk too. Flying is bleh though. Not just premium economy, but something about the intrinsict nature of flying makes me sick. That's the main limit.

    Maybe that's a thing to change, if it's possible for someone to knock me out with drugs, transport me in a coffin like device, and revive me on the other end with no ill effects.

    But I just think we have different definitions of "changed". Doing the same things, but just nicer and with more free time does not fall under that for me.

    Move to New Zealand
    It’s not a very important country most of the time
    http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    a
    Credeiki you can't say risibly in response to a post where I said risible!

    This is not Nam, there are rules

    After I said my family member "retained" their seat on council, I was momentarily unsure of how to describe the fact that we therefore "retained" power through them

    It was harrowing

    you therefore had continued access to power in a moment when you might have worried about losing it, and it was delightful

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  • credeikicredeiki Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either.

    Would you seriously keep working?

    credeiki you're setting chu up for a very easy joke

    sorry I guess the real question is more along the lines of, would you seriously keep going to your work gym or would you get a fancier gym...

    Steam, LoL: credeiki
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Seal wrote: »
    Just go for the largest size possible and scan yourself, naked, into a computer then you can tweak the results to be as amazingly over the top or humble as you like.

    Then you plant on the face of the moon a shining, very naked Adonis.

    "Elon do you know where I can go to get a 3D scan of my nude body?"

    "Oh yeah, we have a couple of those on the factory floor!"

    " ... ... ... Of course you do."

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either. One thing that occurred to me is that if you charter a flight there are no TSA lines

    I have no problem with the security lines at airports. They're quick, and the staff are fun to talk too. Flying is bleh though. Not just premium economy, but something about the intrinsict nature of flying makes me sick. That's the main limit.

    Maybe that's a thing to change, if it's possible for someone to knock me out with drugs, transport me in a coffin like device, and revive me on the other end with no ill effects.

    But I just think we have different definitions of "changed". Doing the same things, but just nicer and with more free time does not fall under that for me.

    for me the drive -> get yourself through the airport -> wait -> fly -> get yourself through the airport -> drive process is the worst thing about traveling

    removing the 2 airport parts and being a passenger for the 2 drive parts might go a long way toward making me want to travel more

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  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    credeiki wrote: »

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either.

    Would you seriously keep working?

    credeiki you're setting chu up for a very easy joke

    sorry I guess the real question is more along the lines of, would you seriously keep going to your work gym or would you get a fancier gym...

    Home gym.

    Move to New Zealand
    It’s not a very important country most of the time
    http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Y'all deciding whether or not you'd work with $600 million

    I got to $600 and stopped working!

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    it's very likely my performance this sprint will be overwhelmingly better than that of any of my other team members

    it remains unclear to me how this is possible since they seem to be trying hard

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    I'd like to carve my name on the moon in a size large enough for people to see it from the ground.

  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either. One thing that occurred to me is that if you charter a flight there are no TSA lines

    I have no problem with the security lines at airports. They're quick, and the staff are fun to talk too. Flying is bleh though. Not just premium economy, but something about the intrinsict nature of flying makes me sick. That's the main limit.

    Maybe that's a thing to change, if it's possible for someone to knock me out with drugs, transport me in a coffin like device, and revive me on the other end with no ill effects.

    But I just think we have different definitions of "changed". Doing the same things, but just nicer and with more free time does not fall under that for me.

    for me the drive -> get yourself through the airport -> wait -> fly -> get yourself through the airport -> drive process is the worst thing about traveling

    removing the 2 airport parts and being a passenger for the 2 drive parts might go a long way toward making me want to travel more

    You should move the NZ then! You can reduce the traveling/airport wait times at the low-low cost of significantly increasing in-air travel time.

    Move to New Zealand
    It’s not a very important country most of the time
    http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either. One thing that occurred to me is that if you charter a flight there are no TSA lines

    I have no problem with the security lines at airports. They're quick, and the staff are fun to talk too. Flying is bleh though. Not just premium economy, but something about the intrinsict nature of flying makes me sick. That's the main limit.

    Maybe that's a thing to change, if it's possible for someone to knock me out with drugs, transport me in a coffin like device, and revive me on the other end with no ill effects.

    But I just think we have different definitions of "changed". Doing the same things, but just nicer and with more free time does not fall under that for me.

    for me the drive -> get yourself through the airport -> wait -> fly -> get yourself through the airport -> drive process is the worst thing about traveling

    removing the 2 airport parts and being a passenger for the 2 drive parts might go a long way toward making me want to travel more

    You should move the NZ then! You can reduce the traveling/airport wait times at the low-low cost of significantly increasing in-air travel time.

    then when shaz and i go to bali it won't suck so hard!

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    Weirdos

    poo
  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either. One thing that occurred to me is that if you charter a flight there are no TSA lines

    I have no problem with the security lines at airports. They're quick, and the staff are fun to talk too. Flying is bleh though. Not just premium economy, but something about the intrinsict nature of flying makes me sick. That's the main limit.

    Maybe that's a thing to change, if it's possible for someone to knock me out with drugs, transport me in a coffin like device, and revive me on the other end with no ill effects.

    But I just think we have different definitions of "changed". Doing the same things, but just nicer and with more free time does not fall under that for me.

    for me the drive -> get yourself through the airport -> wait -> fly -> get yourself through the airport -> drive process is the worst thing about traveling

    removing the 2 airport parts and being a passenger for the 2 drive parts might go a long way toward making me want to travel more

    You should move the NZ then! You can reduce the traveling/airport wait times at the low-low cost of significantly increasing in-air travel time.

    then when shaz and i go to bali it won't suck so hard!

    Only 10 hours and you don't have a stop-over in Aus. Good choice, but I hope you really like Bali.

    Move to New Zealand
    It’s not a very important country most of the time
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  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Y'all deciding whether or not you'd work with $600 million

    I got to $600 and stopped working!

    We talk a big game about abolishing the wage system but Brad is out there on the front lines doing it for real.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    Uh with that much money I’d definitely have airline elite status and be flying first class uh nbd

    poo
  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Couscous wrote: »
    I'd like to carve my name on the moon in a size large enough for people to see it from the ground.

    I've seen the math for something similar to this

    It is a gargantuan task, just fyi :P

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Mortious wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    I’m not saying everyone would buy a 747 and a yacht and a pro sports team. I believe some people have financial discipline. I just think that there would be more change than like, pay my debt and maybe get a new gaming computer. The lump sum after tax is like 600m right now? Even if you say I’m taking 5/6 of it, fully half a billion dollars, and doing charity and trusts for friends and family and investing some of it more aggressively in the market. Just take the remaining sixth, one hundred million dollars, and put it in the absolute most conservative vehicle like US treasury bonds. Even with inflation that’s well over a million dollars a year forever, even if you lose absolutely everything else.

    If you all had your salary multiply by ten or twenty or thirty, nothing would change?

    Just don’t think that’s the result of honest introspection, no offense

    Not "nothing", but nothing drastic.

    I'd quit, and spend more time on my hobbies. Travel slightly more frequently maybe, and def. first class.

    Like I live well below my means as is, it's not really the cost of anything that stops me from doing it.

    I am just a very boring person.

    I'm with chu, I don't think it's realistic to think you can know this about yourself

    Possibly, but I have trouble thinking what I'd spend the money on.

    I'd buy a house obviously, a nice one, but not large. Travel more? But my travel limit is not based on cost or time, but how much I can actually stand to travel. Maybe that'll change if I can go first class.

    I'd just start a new hobby every other month.

    Right I can't easily imagine how my life would change either. One thing that occurred to me is that if you charter a flight there are no TSA lines

    I have no problem with the security lines at airports. They're quick, and the staff are fun to talk too. Flying is bleh though. Not just premium economy, but something about the intrinsict nature of flying makes me sick. That's the main limit.

    Maybe that's a thing to change, if it's possible for someone to knock me out with drugs, transport me in a coffin like device, and revive me on the other end with no ill effects.

    But I just think we have different definitions of "changed". Doing the same things, but just nicer and with more free time does not fall under that for me.

    for me the drive -> get yourself through the airport -> wait -> fly -> get yourself through the airport -> drive process is the worst thing about traveling

    removing the 2 airport parts and being a passenger for the 2 drive parts might go a long way toward making me want to travel more

    The worst part of flying is sitting in a cramped chair and just waiting while it really feels like nothing is happening.

    After you take off plane travel feels equivalent to sitting on the tarmac 90% of the time.

  • BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    it's very likely my performance this sprint will be overwhelmingly better than that of any of my other team members

    it remains unclear to me how this is possible since they seem to be trying hard

    What's a sprint and is it like a crunch

  • AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    it's very likely my performance this sprint will be overwhelmingly better than that of any of my other team members

    it remains unclear to me how this is possible since they seem to be trying hard

    I made a 7200 line commit in this sprint.

    This is the opposite of progress I think but it amuses me.
    I hope nobody tries to actually review it.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
  • MrMisterMrMister Jesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered User regular
    If I won the lottery, I'd at least want to go part time. The optimal level of work for life satisfaction and socialization purposes for me might be more than zero hours, but it's also almost certainly less than forty.

    mmm maybe I should play the lottery

  • GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    This thread is no longer active, and will be recycled.
    On average, this thread was zooming by at warp 1.7

    @BeNarwhal will create the new thread
    @shryke is backup

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