What you'd build if you had 100 millions? • Hacker News Board

Re: What you'd build if you had 100 millions?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 8:09 PM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #8

I read Jared Diamond's book "Collapse" a few years ago and it certainly is a sobering book. I would agree with its thesis that we face a distinct possibility of our high tech "Western" society crashing - and due to the Threads linking us together this crash could be pretty hard. I would use the 100 million to investigate possible ways of mitigating the effects of such a crash. As the actual causes would be essentiall…

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Re: What you'd build if you had 100 millions?

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Post by calyth » Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 9:40 PM UTC

Logic handling in humans, unencumbered by emotions. Though I don't think $100 million is enough.

Re: What you'd build if you had 100 millions?

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Post by kbob » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 2:19 AM UTC

flooha wrote: post #47

jtnak wrote: post #30

I would build a gold statue of me

A ~3 ton statue of you.

Gold is dense.

Re: What you'd build if you had 100 millions?

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Post by Mz » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 2:36 AM UTC

I don't need $100 million. I need more like $100,000. That would be enough to pay off all my debts and let me walk away from my job and pursue what I really want to do full time. Building better lifestyles and spreading a different "culture"/ideas doesn't really take much money per se. And a better way of life/better way of thinking/better culture is the only thing you can build that scales well (with the current global population) and doesn't run into a brick wall concerning consumerism butting heads with ecological fragility.

But if I just had to spend $100 million, I think I'd go with distributed, green power.