Ask HN: What would you have Conficker do?

Re:Ask HN: What would you have Conficker do? by Steve0 on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:32AM (#541973)

Was thinking along those lines. Start transferring money from all accounts to all accounts. Stop when everyone has the same amount of money. Should be fun for a while.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you have Conficker do? by themic86 on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:39AM (#541981)

How much would everyone have if that happened?

My guess is somewhere around $50k.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you have Conficker do? by ars on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @03:17PM (#542288)

Depends on if you mean M0, M1, M2, or M3.

If you mean M0, then assuming 300,000,000 people in the US it's $2,500 per person. If you mean M2 it's $25,000. And M3 is is a secret, but in 2006 it was about 35% larger than M2.

Defining money is a lot more complicated than you think, since the majority of the money in the world is in the form of debt, and it's not actually possible to share it around.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you have Conficker do? by themic86 on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @07:25PM (#542643)

good point. I was doing a simple "how many 'dollars' are in 'circulation' / population". of course, most money isn't money, it is, like you said, digitized debt.

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Re:Ask HN: What would you have Conficker do? by Shamiq on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @01:32PM (#542146)

Maybe, but would it retain its real worth?

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