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[RAM]

I was about to say "Perhaps we should learn from history, lest we repeat the mistakes of our ancestors." before I recognised such thinking as blasphemy against SCIENCE!! and properly admonished myself for falling into the trap of caution in the face of discovery.

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

So, this:

2090(mid-distant future)

Computer Science. Especially combining it with robotics.

Flip a coin, mate. Doesn't much matter.

D. An initial is all we use. Because awesomeness.

1/day might be best to start with. If the updates get easy, make it 2/day, if hard, 3 or 4 per week.

seems like this is the most popular, but many people asked for an actual name, so...  any thoughts?

[NRDL]

How about Dallas?

[RAM]

Flavii Felii Fibonacci, but we make a point of only answering to "F".

[FallacyofUrist]

Flavii Felii Fibonacci, but we make a point of only answering to "F".

Yeah, sure.

[HugeNerdAndProudOfIt]

Flavii Felii Fibonacci, but we make a point of only answering to "F".

Yeah, sure.

ok, you have 250,000 dollars in grant money, and the first thing you need is an evil lair!
apartment - $1,000 a month
condo - $50,000
house - $200,000
abandoned missile silo - 750,000
However, remember that you will also need money to hire minions, buy equipment, get insurance, and all number of other things

[origamiscienceguy]

Our Evil lair will be under that bridge on highway 35: 0$ Lair acquired.

Just put a sign that says "stop global warming, volunteer for testing. We have cookies." 50$ (for the cookies) minions aquired.

[Dustan Hache]

That is a horrible idea origami, at the least we should get an apartment or a condo. Living under a bridge is hardly fitting for a mad scientist.

[origamiscienceguy]

Ok. But can we keep the sign?

[I, Writer]

No we cannot.

[origamiscienceguy]

I'd say the apartment is the best since it is closer to the city.

[NRDL]

I'd say the apartment is the best since it is closer to the city.

+1 to apartment.

[somemildmanneredidiot]

The Plan

1. Buy House
Less neighbors, no upkeep, plenty of room to expand below ground as well as store various equipment.

2. Purchase Parts to Make Uber Computer & Servers
We need something to start actually doing !SCIENCE!.

3. Make L33T Computer & Servers
It's cheaper this way, plus we're nearly guranteed to be able to make something better than what's available on the market.

4. Automated Money Making
There's something called bitcoin mining that I personnally have no idea how it works, but once we set up a solid program to do that we'll have a significant passive income so we can more easily advance into other areas like minion making (programs are basically minions right?), equipment development, and world domination.

5. ??

6. Profit.

[RAM]

Condo. The house is too expensive(I mean, 4/5ths of our funds? For something that isn't likely to directly increase our income? The base is important, sure, but I really can't see more than 2/3rds being remotely justifiable.) but we need our independence. Rent is bad...

I wouldn't want to be spending just 50000 on computer hardware. Sure, it sounds like a lot for a personal machine, but we are going to want at least three independant server farms to host our competing A.I.s on, and that is just our quirky miniboss squad. We will want additional A.I. farms for specialist agents...

I wanna budget 10000 for our personal workstation. It'll be limited, but we are on a budget and most of the work can be offloaded to automated systems. 10000 each for an A.I., most of that will probably go on extreme-speed random access memory with a healthy supply of cross-linked processors. We will probably want at least another 10000 worth of datamining to get some datasets for our infant A.I.s to play in. Really, the good datamining is probably hundreds of thousands but we can't really afford the professional stuff... We probably can't afford to skimp on bandwidth. If we can't real-time backup our quirky miniboss squad when they lead the mindless mooks on missions then, well, they could die! And direct transmissions would reveal our location immediately so we are going to need indirect stuff, none of that will be cheap. Really, we are going to need to be hacking satellites and that means boatloads of comms gear, that could easily be a hundred thousand for something pretty low-quality. We will need ongoing expenses to rent spoofs(I know, I know, you don't rent your spoofs, but you need to rent spoofs from which to hack spoofs from which to erase your data from the rented spoofs and you need to make sure that the rented spoofs are paid to avoid attracting attention to them...) and pay for deliveries. Umm, we probably need to eat? Learning to photosynthesise and getting an ultraviolent lamp should be a priority for any programmer... Have we picked race yet? I am all in favour of Venus Flytrap! And then there are costs related to making our location seem uninteresting. Vacant properties can be appealing to renovators...

Really, I don't think that we can expect to get started for less than one-hundred and fifty thousand...

[somemildmanneredidiot]

Counter point: Condos have people which means neighbors which means people looking askance when they hear mad cackling in the middle of the day, night, any time.

If we go for the house and use 10k on the computer, 30k on the bitcoin mining necessities, and leave 10k left to account for expenses until we have this all up and running, that'll leave us in a decent position to start accumulating funds to set up the spooking, servers, AI, satellites, and whatever else we need or want, while also allowing us a fair amount of seclusion as a safety measure.