Hire 70 trillion people to draw me a $700 billion bill.
Damn that's some fine resolution. Unfortunately if you want to hire unique people you'll have to wait for the earth's population to increase about 12,000 times its current size.
Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
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Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#92Hookers and RAM.
When I've got a good rate with a few of the girls, and my DIMM banks are filled, I'd probably start building a loyal robot army to help fight the evil ones that come with the inevitable robot apocalypse.
Each of which, incidentally, will require RAM.
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#93probably something like this: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/gallery/251007war_costs?pg...
i mean, no more poverty and educating every child on earth for 7 years seems like a good idea...
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#94Death Star.
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#95Build the world's largest super computer. Then ask it what the meaning of life is.
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#96Build a huge space station...something that can be seen with bare eyes during daylight.
The present one can.
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#97I'd get a crew of volunteers together and torch the The World Bank & The International Monetary Fund.. just burn it to the ground. That might cost a couple hundred grand tops. With them out of the way it would be easy to implement a true Meritocracy in all governments. Presidents will get a paycheck on a sliding scale, the more wealth they are responsible for creating for their people, the better off they will do personally. I'd then use crowdsourcing to dictate what investments were made with the remaining 699 1/2 billion. We would then use the interest created by the these investments to fund all of the projects previously mentioned by the HackerNews Community.
edit I'd make sure all of the employee's were out of the buildings, of course...
Re: Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?
#98probably start 700 seed fund firms
That's ridiculous. You'd never come close to finding enough entrepreneurs to give the money to.
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#99Use it to somehow dismantle all organized religion, probably. Likely the quickest way to save the world.
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#100Nation-wide high-speed wireless. Computers for schools. Spend the rest on paying down our debt.
if the 700b came from debt like it is in this situation, you're only delaying the problem
Good point. Paying down debt with more debt seems strangely counter productive. In this case, paying down debt means not spending the money period.