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Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)Genie: I’ll give you one billion dollars if you can spend 100M in a month. There are 3 rules: No gifting, no gambling, no throwing it away.
SRE: Can I use AWS?
Genie: There are 4 rules.
Walt Mankowski@ovid This might explain Dr. Oz’s Senate campaign last fall.
Massa 👽 Humberto
SensibleOtterOracle???
Wayne Werner@OtterlySensible @ovid a single license renewal 🙃
Frank Barton@ovid Oracle Cloud
SolarPunk 🌻@ovid Can I buy NFTs?
eagerpebble@SolarPunk @ovid it already says, "no throwing it away"
Evelyn 
PJ "Vote Green" Coffey@EvieAlways @eagerpebble @SolarPunk @ovid
No throwing it away.
Dave Lane 
🇳🇿@Homebrewandhacking @EvieAlways @eagerpebble @SolarPunk @ovid so that effectively eliminates MS Azure, too, eh.
Fobes
Hamish M (VK3FSB)@SolarPunk @ovid the no gambling clause covers that
Elon Musk stick
Esme Ciredutemps@SolarPunk @ovid it's gambling
Coo-Ops@SolarPunk @ovid no gambling or throwing it away.
Dym Sohin@ovid 100mil? thats like one-room flat in manhattan
Remo Blockade@ovid there's a few hospitals and schools that need to be rebuilt. Ide toss 100mill a month toward new kinda of batteries. Oklahoma needs more LGBTQ+ Spaces.
archiloque@ovid datadog?
Orin@ovid Want to have a small fortune in aviation? Start with a large fortune.
Bynkii@ovid @SwiftOnSecurity “I was in the military, I can blow 100M in a day. Sucker.”
1973@ovid Azure?
uvok
Rairii@ovid using AWS would technically fall under the no throwing it away rule, right? :P
Hugo Slabbert ⚠️@Rairii came here for this...
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe@ovid 100M in mortgage debt is probably not a lot of mortgage debt.
Denis 
@ovid Isn't "throwing away" and "use AWS" the same ? 😅
Margash@ovid @SwiftOnSecurity Can I use Robin Hood though?
Chris [list of emoji]I genuinely lol'd at this
Dr. Guillermo Power 
@ovid Question: are lootboxes considered gambling in this scenario? :P
jafu 🇺🇦@ovid 207 shares of Berkshire Hathaway A please.
AMS@ovid The trick there is turning it off before the $1B is spent.
Appagal Crochet@ovid Next time... say "Deal!" No questions.
masukomi@ovid I've never understood this thing. Same with the Brewsers Millions movie. I'd turn to a friend and say "hey, can i buy that <random cheap object> off of you for $100m?" They'd say yes. I'd buy it. We'd both win. Easy peasy.
@masukomi Explaining a joke is like dissecting a puppy: they're both dead when you're done.
Marc Mims@ovid @masukomi Ovid, you brought this song to mind. 🙂
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gn-wGaM7x5c&feature=share
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gn-wGaM7x5c&feature=share
@suetanvil @ovid I mean, yes, but in my defense it is generally posed as a question of "how would you spend this much money in a short amount of time in order to get much more" and so you're _supposed_ to try and think of an answer (or the protagonist is). People always come up with this complicated multi-step things and it just makes no sense. How you spend the initial smaller batch of money is both trivially easy to answer & pointless. it's how you spend the NEXT batch of 💰 that matters.
Angle🖇@Angle @ovid the same item is sold for different prices all the time. the car you buy from a friend for a dollar is legally a purchase. The expensive antique car you buy from a friend for 1 million is also a purchase and most definitely goes on your taxes even if the car was sold new for $20k. And any price is valid for any object during a legal transaction so long as both parties agree upon it.
Éibhear 🔭@ovid "Azure?"
"5 rules, dammit!"
fuck ICE
marcorobotics@andygeorge @ovid recursion problems, now with a real $ cost! 😂
Mysturji@ovid
Just charter an A380 and invite your family & friends on a round the world flying party with all the biggest bands providing the entertainment.
Just charter an A380 and invite your family & friends on a round the world flying party with all the biggest bands providing the entertainment.
newsorpigalI'll let r/wallstreetbets give me investment advice.
Kevin Priester@ovid AWS is gambling so already covered under original rules. Now to think of it, It is covered with rules 2 & 3. Gambling and Throwing it away.
David@ovid okayyy, buy a house, a car, upgrade my telescope setup, furnish the house, buy and build a top of the line computer, and all the stuff on my wishlist.
Then maybe start building an observatory with a massive scope? Rent it out to universities.
@ovid 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
Paranoid Factoid@ovid The spot market at AWS can get pretty cheap if you have time.
LN 
@ovid The problem is that most of the ways that kind of money changes hands takes longer than a month to establish if you don't already have preexisting relationships and staff. Plus the purchases usually involve bespoke contracts written and vetted by expensive lawyers and they take their time too.
Three plus or minus five@ovid
Then problem is stopping the charges after one month. That billion will go fast if you don’t shut down all those IP addresses you’re not using.
Then problem is stopping the charges after one month. That billion will go fast if you don’t shut down all those IP addresses you’re not using.
Lee Markosian 
@ovid You need money to get money, and since I don't have a spare 100 million dollars*, I'm not going to get that 1 billion dollars 🤨
*plus there's no genie
Marsden@ovid
Even if I don't manage to spend all the 100M, do I get to keep what I've spent however much of it on? Because I'm pretty sure that I could get reasonably well set up for my and my family's future with even a fairly small part of that.
Although ... the genie isn't saying that they are providing the 100M. If I have to have it already I'm out :/
(& having that much already probably makes previous comments about needing pre-existing connections to move that much money quickly void.)