He spent 75 million for the house next to one he already owned. He's worth $156 billion.
Let's say you have 100k in the bank. The equivalent purchase for you would be something costing roughly $50. He bought a mansion worth more than I'll ever see for proportionally less than what I would spend on an AAA video game.
Oh and it'll either hold value or appreciate, so he will likely just make more money on it. Or at the very least pay relatively a lot less once he decides to sell.
Isn't that also my man Vic Fontaine? Can't forget him.
If you think DMCA bots aren't trawling around in open piracy forums then I've got some swampland to sell you in Florida.
You wouldn't download a TREE
The third button down on the right mutes all of the screens I've tried it on.
And tar | gpg is handy if you want more than a few files encrypted for transport.
That's pretty brilliant, actually.
I propose a nice server side open source library that will replace pages served from Google IP space with redirects to the Firefox download page. Or just a page presenting the problem and danger.
Or like an nginx plug-in. So many options.
Nobody can track what you're looking at*!
*For free any more because now they'll have to pay us for that data which we'll have wayyyy more of."
Yeah, not charging any more could just as easily be attributed to the battery. Hissing of any kind, except for pretty significant arcing, would most likely point to battery as well. I'd definitely take precautions around the battery as those fires aren't pretty.
Not a climatologist, but I would presume a lot of it is because there also happens to be a lot of water there. For one, the rotation of the earth kinda pushes the oceans into a squashed ball shape, so more water ends up at the equator. The distance to the core at the equator is roughly 13 miles greater than at the poles.. But also, in our current state of tectonic drift, there's just lots of ocean at the equator surrounding various bodies of land. And the extra heat due to more direct sunlight for more of the year means more evaporates from oceans and enters the water cycle. All it needs then is to meet colder air above land, and we have lots of atmospheric currents that end up helping with that, and those areas tend to be significantly wetter.
For another, possibly better-researched answer, here's an answer to a similar question on Quora.
Mother/father is inclusive and a drop-in replacement.
Yeah that's fair. But also it's realistically vastly more complicated and almost incomparable because with $156B you can actually manipulate markets to improve your returns. People will buy your house at a premium to say they own Jeff Bezos' previous property. Etc. Beyond the direct ratio comparison, there are so many fundamentally inequal parts about wealth at that scale.
Say he earns less than a high yield savings account for a year (~4.5% currently), he can retire on only that year's income with over 7 billion in the bank and this purchase would be more like someone with 100k saved spending 1k (on a house).