[NNagain] if you had a billion dollars

[Dave Taht]

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

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:23 PM rjmcmahon <rjmcmahon at rjmcmahon.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I wrote this in 2015. I would not change much:
> >
> > http://the-edge.taht.net/post/billion/



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