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Frankly I don’t understand how people with access to the rituals, writings, scripture etc of such a complex religion end up with a worldview of “Thing I like - God. Thing I don’t like - devil”. A typical toddler or infant will probably arrive at a similar morality unaided by such powerful structures I would think.
In windfall cases, people tend to change their lives - which ultimately is for the worse. Several people have said the right thing: do nothing.

Keep working, but now spend time thinking about you and yours - rather than your career and the struggle. Invest the money temporarily in fixed-income returning vehicles; we're talking about TBills/Bonds/GICs (depends on your country). Remember, if you're post-tax, sitting on $8M, then an extremely conservative 2% means you're looking at $160K for the year you're learning and thinking. Yes, this isn't a good return, or even long-term. But you're ensuring that your money starts to work for you, while you work on it - all without having any pressure whatsoever.

You absolutely should not make long-term decisions when you're in a short-term state.
Well that's the issue with constants in general. What is constant in your problem is a variable for the problem I solve...
Why doesn’t Tesla make flashlights too?
But the first part of Seveneves is better surely?
Though I liked both.
It seems to me that boards are way more sensitive on female breasts then on white supremacism.
Oddly enough, so does Cython.
A lot of people on here are big on just eliminating or drastically reducing parking in cities. That works fine if you live and work downtown and don't need a car otherwise. But I pretty much guarantee you that the vibrancy of your downtown is sustained to a large degree by people who don't live there coming in. I was just in the local city for dinner and a play last night. I can guarantee you that, to the degree traffic and parking make that too much of a chore (and, believe me, it's getting there) I'll just fire up a movie at home instead.

ADDED: Some cities (e.g. New York, London, various other European cores don't really lend themselves to driving in--though many people still do in the evenings--but that presupposes public transit that can comfortably substitute for driving in terms of convenience and cost).
I wish the GDPR had enforced this. It would be nice, though sad that it would have to be a law. If congress and the EU would push for it, things might get interesting. Ads based on content are what I prefer anyway.
with a wise investment strategy, the guy can spend about $300k per year without losing money in the long term. that's a lot of money, but it's not so much that you can't easily overspend if you're not careful and/or start "seeing green". if his kids end up going to top schools for college, that'll be ~$150k per year right there.
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Yes, I would agree with that. The first part is fantastic and the last part is quite good.
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Now serious answer: I don't know if it has been translated into English (I don't think so) but two famous French sociologist worked on what happens when normal people win huge prizes at the lotto (for a review, in French: https://journals.openedition.org/lectures/1140)

Many commenters here suggesting not change your lifestyle, and I think they are right. But it won't be possible. Your world is going to change anyway. You are entering a world with many unwritten rules, and it takes time to adapt. Learning the rules will create for sure some malaise.

You can just step into the world of the "rich" without making some faux pas. A new socialization will be necessary. At the same time, you just won't be able to lead a "normal" life as before. Learning how to manage this fortune will likely take your time for a bit.

My advice: don't be hard on yourself if you do something wrong. It will happen for sure.
Edit: before I read the article I wasn't sure if you meant:

https://www.alpaca.ai

or

https://alpaca.markets
The example on this page is really bad. Remember the time of framesets? We wrote fallback code, at least a little excuse, to all the browsers and users who did not understand framesets. There are too many "single page applications" (why don't call them "Javascript applications") which just show white space without Javascript enabled (not even to speak about ill-functional Javascript).
Companies like that usually sell the order flow to market makers.
>Also simply look for and feel on your skin the quality of life in cities than in countyside/the riviera. And in dense countries vs far less dense one.

Well yes, living on the countryside with a big house and car and all amenities may be nicer than living in an apartment in the city. But you should keep in mind that that's a luxury. And a rather wasteful one at that.
It might end up not being that much more expensive for you, but that's because people living in the cities are subsidizing your lifestyle through their taxes.
Ok you win the award for “Best Tangent Rant” for the CO2 bit at the end
Go travel my friend! And don't put yourself in the position of subscribing to luxury travel either. You'll be burning through money faster than you realize.

Besides, trying to live truly locally will yield such 'rich' life experience. Nothing like connecting with other cultures and experiences without the emphasis on the balance within your bank account.

Other than that, congrats! That's a nice lump of money and best of luck to you and your family.
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AFAIK (I'm not a specialist by any means) brain cancer has a long (years) latency time. I've heard that that is why it took a lot of time to diagnosis Hiroshima and Nagashaky survivors. If that is true, we are still inside the latency period.
What are BATs? I am not familiar with this acronym.
I just learned that this is a problem we somehow have in New York City, a place that desperately needs to reduce the number of cars on the road. :\
I come from a time where compiling your code, even a small one, was processor time consuming.

Back in University, in the beginning of the 90’s, a teacher explained us that separating configuration from code was a good practice because you don’t have to recompile your code to make several tests.

I guess it still is the case !
> As Frakt says, solutions aren’t hard to fathom. In fact, they’re trivially easy to figure out.

Lots of things are "easy to figure out", and also "really hard to implement correctly".

Managing the care of a lot of different people with different conditions over long periods of time is complex and error-prone. You can't stand around all day in a hospital trying to figure out if you missed an edge case in a patient's customized care plan. Not only are you tremendously busy, but making a mistake in that customized plan could mean life or death. Routine is much safer and more reliable.

It's not impossible to improve patient care, but it is tremendously more difficult than a layman can observe just by sitting in a hospital bed.
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So some Australian law enforcement entity tells Apple to push an update to a suspects phone that borks the encryption. Apple pretty much has to say no, otherwise they would get in trouble with the US government, which they are currently at odds with for the same refusal.

Then what?
Same here. I though it was due to my ad blocking. Anyway, here are examples: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Blue+and+orange+movie+posters
I remember doing this a lot in elementary school. I definitely never finished it, so it's nice to hear that it's at least possible.
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I don't see how not having access to the funds applies or that the stock price might have volatility since he said the money was in his bank account already.
High level dynamic language with a good standard library (Python, Ruby). I've seen applicants waste half their interview time writing helper functions in C or write a bunch of classes in Java before getting started with the actual problem.

That said, it helps to use a language in the company's stack.
Super intersting to see people discussing this! As someone that holds a pilots license and talks with a lot of commercial pilots about their jobs, sleep is often a hot topic of discussion. It would be illegal, not just irresponsible, for a pilot to try pull off a 120 hour work week. Why do we treat doctors differently? Their macho behaviour in my opinion is unacceptable, and likely reduces positive patient outcomes, yet it goes on?
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HN founder Paul Graham has some fantastic advice[1] on how to avoid losing your fortune:

When we sold our startup in 1998 I suddenly got a lot of money. I now had to think about something I hadn't had to think about before: how not to lose it. I knew it was possible to go from rich to poor, just as it was possible to go from poor to rich. But while I'd spent a lot of the past several years studying the paths from poor to rich, I knew practically nothing about the paths from rich to poor. Now, in order to avoid them, I had to learn where they were.

So I started to pay attention to how fortunes are lost. If you'd asked me as a kid how rich people became poor, I'd have said by spending all their money. That's how it happens in books and movies, because that's the colorful way to do it. But in fact the way most fortunes are lost is not through excessive expenditure, but through bad investments.

Be careful with anything other than the most ultra-conservative investment if you're putting millions into it.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html
jesus christ friend, you are free to make whatever decision you want, that is what the money grants you. Work or retire, i'm sure 8 mil is more than enough to do anything. I'm sure with proper investments, even lower yielding ones, you should be more than good. I'm not really sure what the people below who say that its not enough really do with their money, it is more than enough.
IIRC there exists an association created to help lottery winners. Your situation is kind of similar. I forgot the name, but if you google "curse of lottery winners" or something like that you should find a link somewhere.

According to some random article I've just found[1] for instance, one of the first things you should do is hiring an attorney. Sounds like a sensible advice.

1. https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/what-it-is-really-like-to-...
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"Also, see if maybe you can develop some hobbies. It can be as simple as hiking or collecting stamps. Preferably one that has a social aspect so you have human interaction."

I would avoid material intensive Hobbies where you can buy accomplishment.

Unfortunately I am not in a similar situation but if I was I would try to maybe put some effort in to being healthy and not just focusing on beeing stimulated constantly. You can afford taking it slow, give it a try.
There was another post here a week or two ago about an image processing algorithm that turned everything into blurry genitalia. Could it be related?

edit: Found it. I'm not the only one who wondered if this was the case! New comment in that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18601287
I find it quite illuminating that the first reaction to a mistake is to blame someone else.
Hospitals worldwide should be optimized for increased patient comfort even at the cast of marginally lowering survival (let's say 1%) and increasing cost (again 1%)! Almost all patients would prefer it.

But it's hard to convince people that often in life paying slightly more for a statistically slightly worse outcome increases you comfort ~10x and is 1000% worth it! After all, we live to feel good, and living is only worth it as long as we feel good doing it!

...but no, we just have to insist that we want the absolutely best things (as customers) and that we need to be as efficient as possible (as service providers). This combination of constraints makes life a living hell that I'm not sure why we can still stand. Also there's those maniacs that absolutely hate being or making others COMFORTABLE, but making life worse for them would be sooo enjoyable.
More than mainstream, it's the majority view among philosophers (59% Compatibilists, the rest even split among 3 other possibilities): https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl
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Give 10% to the poor and causes you respect, go do a world tour with your family or alone, make a bucket list and fulfill it

The world is your oyster go abuse the opportunity
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This is if you just let it sit in an account instead of investing it. The parent comment is saying if you invest it you will be able to take 4% each year and still keep the nest egg in tact.
> Waymo One is rolling out in the Metro Phoenix area first. Over time, we hope to expand to new places and more people.

You can sign up to express interest using the form at the bottom of this page[1] (asks for your gmail address, zip code and type of phone).

P.S. Why is the mobile experience on Medium so frustratingly bad? Between the permanent heading plus the "please download our app" heading I find it maddening. I also find the UX around reading comments to be unnecessarily confusing.

1. https://waymo.com
Good question. Probably you need to send a data request, so they can provide you with info they have about you. But based on what should they search in their data warehouse? IP? Cookies? Interests? Leaked email?

I guess one way to avoid shadow profiles would be to block FB scripts/cookies on pages you visit, so they won't track you.
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Alapaca's business model [0]:

> Alpaca will start offering Premium Plan subscriptions, where premium users will have access to various perks, such as higher quality live data feed and more computing resources. The pricing and exact features have not yet been determined. Please stay tuned for updates.

[0] https://support.alpaca.markets/hc/en-us/articles/36001104717...
What is interesting about this article for me is that, the question of free will has been one of the oldest subject of academic scholasticism. So how come now it is being discussed by people whose profession is about measuring and classifying natural phenomena in relation to the physical concept of force? I wonder what changed? Did physics become academic scholasticism or did free will is transformed into a physical force?
Yeah the NICU for my second child had a sort of day night light cycle. It was pretty nice... for parents too ;)
Artificial stupidity combined with corporate stupidity, it's predictably not going to end well.
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Beside python has pretty awful support for functional programming, I don't get what is purpose of this. Is it just a Facebook for developers? Why anyone should use autocomplete sever in others computer? What is advantage of this over other autocomplete API's such Jedi, Pycharm, Microsoft python server, that doesn't run in other computer?
I hope these sort of thing's won't become popular.
They are not closely similar. Ponies will die if you dont know how to handle them, money while being gobbled away by inflation will more or less hold its value.

It's a smart thing to do learn money-management at any point of your life, even more with a sudden windfall like this. The OP seems like a straightforward guy who isnt really interested in money hence this post.

So it's up to him what kind of impact he'd like to have to the world around him. If you really get down to it there's no wrong or right way to proceed. To maintain that wealth he should definitely learn how to manage it. To spend that money on things he deems important he probably doesnt need to learn much money-management.

Wisest thing in my mind, and what others have suggested, is to wait and ponder what he really wants to do in life. Maybe read some money-management books, sure. To see if it's any interest to him.
That just means you can rent out your spot. In some places they go for 50-100€ per month.
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Medicine is a conservative field - unfortunately that also includes ignoring anything harmful to their cult aspects even if it is trivially obvious like "wash your hands" after doing a damn autopsy before delivering a baby. Or yes infants can feel pain - not using anesthesia because the control isn't fine enough to not have a better chance of killing them is a grim but justifiable thing initially but inexcusable once it becomes possible to do so safely.

And the sleep deprivation and hazing "I did it so everbody else must too!" is definitely a cultic thing.

I use cult very deliberately to point at the reasoning being entirely irrational and social as opposed to underlying value. And also because actual cults use slerp deprivation.
The argument Giuliani tried to make regarding that it must have been malicious is that Helsinki.Either (which appears in the tweet as well) wasn't converted to a link.

I'm not sure whether Giuliani is that much of an idiot, or whether he just fucked up a bit, but is now creating the opportunity to sell the 'SV is anti-Trump' story.
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> Free will, as commonly understood, means there's an "extra layer of abstraction" between the universe (material objects and their relationships) and me. What people called "soul".

This was commonly believed for a long time, but there have been numerous studies in experimental philosophy that actually tested this question, and it turns out that people's moral reasoning is Compatibilist. See the latest:

Why compatibilist intuitions are not mistaken: A reply to Feltz and Millan, https://philpapers.org/rec/ANDWCI-3

So people only claim to be incompatibilists when they confuse determinism with fatalism. Regardless, they tended to agree strongly with Compatibilist moral reasoning.
This administration seems to have an innate ability to make themselves look like complete idiots. Makes me almost long for the Bush years.
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If that is so, then free will is a redundant concept (the outcome is actually determined without it), and the question becomes one of why do we feel we have, and are exercising, a choice between A and B.

As it happens, I am pretty sure that I am not a coherent thing - or, at least, I would not rule out a putative explanation on the grounds that it would imply that I am not a coherent thing.
Reminds me of the 'too many road signs' problem:

https://www.safetysign.com/blog/too-many-traffic-signs/

It's hard to get staff working within a bureacracy to acknowledge this sort of thing, however. Only bureacratic procedures are real. Attempts to reform merely add to the bureacracy.
It is simply a physical fact that surface area goes down as building size goes up. (You have to build very tortured buildings for this to be untrue.) Consequently, dense settlements will be easier to insulate and will lose less energy per tenant. There are many other effects of scale kicking in too.

Arguing about the quality of life is something else with different trade offs. I'd say ban cars from city centers and then we start talking about quality of life.
Noone mentions a vital fact: you want a fiduciary advisor, everyone else will fleece you. They are mandated to have your best interest in mind unlike financial advisors and such.
Apparently you think you are average at everything, but it looks like at least once you were good at picking a successful tech company. If this sounds right to you, why not do it again?

I would set the money aside (invest it like others said in this thread) and join another company which looks like the one that just exited, but at the time you joined it. You should be valuable to them, especially since you have experience with hyper growth now.

If it works, you hit the jackpot twice, and you have learned that maybe you have a knack for this. If it doesn't, you didn't lose much, and you have $8M so does it really matter?

The only caveat is: avoid telling people at the new company how rich you are, and under no circumstance let them have you invest unreasonable amounts of money in them.
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You can’t time the market, so either advice is just as wrong/right. Though the stock market will probably be higher 10 years from now.
And people trusted real money to such a crap solution?
Plenty of things about reality are unfair. I'm not quite sure how free will being nonexistent is dehumanizing towards victims, but even if you feel it will be, that isn't an argument that free will exists.
This is too funny. You wouldn't expect your average politician to understand how the web works, but how on earth don't they have staff protecting them from these kind of embarrassments?
Well, yes but far less... I see Ariane 5 disaster due to an overflow error, but never seen the International monetary found that publish a false study due to an excel calculus bug nor scientific studies with false result due to excel bugs...

Spreadsheets IME are environment that really help human error and disguise them well enough...

About solidity I can't answer having not enough data, I can only say that I still have to see anything more efficient than Emacs in the world and I see software since around twenty years...
Bandsintown does seem to have the small acts, at least near me. It does send these obnoxious 20-character notifications/emails that will only let you read the actual message via their site though.
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Announced 1,988 days ago, I'm happy this is out of Alpha. It's as Debian-derived as WebOS and PureOS are... will be chrootable to Debian like the Palm Pre was?
According to this[1] NIS+ Probably allows it, so there's probably a nice multi-step attack possible...

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19620-01/805-3727/userconcept-3/...
Are you arguing $8M is not enough to retire on?