What you'd build if you had 100 millions?
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#12I'd build a sustainable commune on a massive scale, using advanced aquaponics, greenhouses, alternative energy sources, and digital information sharing. This would hopefully serve as an example to inspire others to build their own sustainable projects.
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#13Distributed mesh wireless + solar energy.
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#14I'd hire someone to create a software filter to sort out crap posts like this one.
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#15I'd build a rollercoaster.
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#16I'd hire someone to create a software filter to sort out crap posts like this one.
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#17Are you serious? You failed your first start-up, how come do you want someone to give you 100 millions.
"This person is very powerful and you cannot possibly cheat"
When the project is big, cheating become easier
"but you don't have to make a profit off your product either"
What's the benefit of your work then?
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#18Are you serious? You failed your first start-up, how come do you want someone to give you 100 millions. "This person is very powerful and you cannot possibly cheat" When the project is big, cheating become easier "but you don't have to make a profit off your product either" What's the benefit of your work then?
The person has approached YOU :)
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#19Judging from my very own current problems, I guess I'd start to support small universities and support promising young students, especially if they study some sort of had science like physics, math, computer science and such.
Such support should include money (well, students need food, books, other equipment depending on the course), but I think it should also include support with various buerocratic problems, like facing the german bafoeg-institute and other buerocrats.
Certainly, it will be hard to actually get a good selection principle going and it also needs a plan to get the money back, but once this is done, I think this is a very valuable thing to invest in. I mean, studying is pretty much a full time job (well, if you study hard to get through the universiy fast, it is), and thus, students usually don't have that much time to work and sometimes they even get to pay for being at the university.
Besides that, I would invest a large sum into neurodermatism research, just for pure egoism. I have this problem, and whoever also has this problem knows how bad this status can be whenever it goes active. (To everyone else: Just imagine the urge to scratch your inner elbow, hand or other inappropiate locations until every skin is gone and just a bloody mess is left. After that, one is depressed, cannot move properly and is in pain.) Thus, this would be a second major investment. I guess it also would not be that egoistic, as a lot of people could benefit from results from this research :)
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#20http://singinst.org/donate/
A million dollars, I could see. I can't imagine what useful thing they could accomplish with 100 million, given that the bottleneck for their avowed program is Friendliness theory. Giving them that much money would distort the organization, probably. Might be counterproductive. :)