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

Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by boredguy8 on Thursday September 25, 2008 @01:44PM (#315112)

Don't we already have a bunch of states competing with each other as an experiment to see what form is the most effective?

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by DLWormwood on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:09PM (#315160)

I know you're trying to be cute, but our current situation has too many confounding variables: cultural makeup, history, terrain advantages, economic baggage... We'd need a more laboratory like situation where the city-states are more alike, save for the variables we want to test.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you do with $700 Billion? by huherto on Thursday September 25, 2008 @02:06PM (#315151)

yes, we only need the barbaric hordes every 50 years

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