Re: [NNagain] if you had a billion dollars

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

That is lovely. I too would like to find a place to logout for a long while.

172 thoughts left to come in!

/me makes mental push for everyone to check their spam folders
(was this list coming in as spam?)

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 3:54 PM Eugene Y Chang <eugene.chang@ieee.org> wrote:
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> Build an institute to teach an appreciation of natural philosophy and Zen.
> (I need to think more about generalizing alternative development to spiritual connections.)
> Many people have lost (or lack) a connection to both approaches to reality.
>
>
> Gene
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> On Oct 14, 2023, at 4:00 AM, Dave Taht via Nnagain <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
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> Thank you! 173 people left to weigh in!
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> On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 3:49 AM Qian Li <li_qian_pro@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I would like to fund in three areas.
>
> Quantum computer design. It is the next revolution in the computing world.
> Building programmable network routers that are sufficiently quick to handle network packets at line speeds. In the meantime, router functions can be updated as easily and economically as software updates. This will solve the problem of Internet ossification. The deployment of new Internet technologies such as IPv6 will thus become easy.
> Home robots design. This may include cleaning, cooking, and babysitting robots. They can free housewives from day to day housework. As a result, more women will be able to contribute to the advance of computer networks
>
> Qian
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> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2023 11:15 AM
> To: rjmcmahon <rjmcmahon@rjmcmahon.com>
> Cc: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>; Network Neutrality is back! Let´s make the technical aspects heard this time! <nnagain@lists.bufferbloat.net>
> Subject: Re: [NNagain] if you had a billion dollars
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> thx for your thoughts! I have a fear that the other 175 other people
> here that have not posted yet have all our emails are going directly
> into their spam bin, so I wanted with this post to encourage people to
> lean back, relax (smoke one if you got 'em! Put on some great record
> on the stereo too), and propose spending an arbitrary billion $ on
> something they think would be good for the computing and internet
> world.
>
> It is otherwise such an inoptimistic world nowadays. I was delighted
> to see the whole earth catalog back online:
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872774
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> On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:23 PM rjmcmahon <rjmcmahon@rjmcmahon.com> wrote:
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> o) FiWi chips and FiWi concentrators
> o) Train people in fields that give them long term careers, e.g. how to
> construct & manage fiber & RF networks
> o) Things to help with climate impacts, e.g. advertise the heck out of
> heat pumps
> o) Fund shelters and support systems for victims of domestic violence
> o) Try to find a business model that pays journalists so we don't have
> to rely on Jeff Bezos for our news
>
> I wouldn't:
> o) Buy an island in Hawaii
> o) Buy a house that's more than 2000 sq ft
> o) Buy a boat
> o) Have 11 kids with multiple women
> o) Fund anti aging research
> o) Try to build rockets to mars, unless the project hired minorities to
> do so
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4
>
> Bob
>
> in trying to initiate some out of the box thinking here...
>
> What would *you* do with a billion dollars?
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> ...
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> I wrote this in 2015. I would not change much:
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> http://the-edge.taht.net/post/billion/
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