Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion?

Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by yan on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:21PM (#314967)

Taking an entire giant island for one person would make the world a better place?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by noodle on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:31PM (#314986)

would you like me to say "i'd give it all up to charity"? i'd be lying if i said that, and so would anyone else.

i've always wanted to live on an island, thanks for shitting on my dreams in a hypothetical thread :*-(

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by yan on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:35PM (#314988)

I was just sitting on my hypothetical high horse and giving you a hard time.

Friends?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by noodle on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:45PM (#315010)

sure, no hard feelings :)

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by pchristensen on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:27PM (#314979)

Giving $698 billion to tech research and charity probably would.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by iigs on Thursday September 25, 2008 @12:39PM (#314997)

Yep, sure would make the world a better place for that guy, at least!

I'd take a small amount of it ($2-3 million if i could be sure of good interest returns over time, more commensurate with inability to do same) and return the rest to the taxpayers.

Alternatively I'd use that money to buy/start a small nation with a refortified constitution and the freedoms we've lost over the last century.

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