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Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal. | rodrigo: Ive found excellent recipes here http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/recipes/
this guy is on the money, ive been loosing weigth just by following some of his advice. |
Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal. | symptic: I make a lot of meals for my roommate and myself with 2 cans of tuna ($.69-.89 a piece) and a package of 'parmesan couscous' ($2.49). The couscous part can be broken dwn even further if you just buy a big thing of couscous without the flavoring and make your own.Total: $3.50 for two people. You could probably feed three with it, the servings are huge. |
Ask HN:Use celebrity names in your app? How do you go about copyright and trademark? | noodle: if you can't afford it, don't use their names. |
Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal. | makaimc: Mixing a salad with a can of low sodium tuna fish, lettuce, and spicy mustard provides a lot of protein and no simple carbohydrates so it will keep your blood sugar from crashing. Add baby carrots to it and the fiber will keep you full for hours. If you create several of these and keep them refrigerated in plastic containers you'll always have healthy meals on hand for when you get hungry. |
Ask HN:Use celebrity names in your app? How do you go about copyright and trademark? | shafqat: Just go for it. Seriously. Worry about it later, and if you get sued, make it a big publicity stunt. All publicity is good publicity. If you are just a honest, hardworking individual trying to make a website, you will always be given a chance to avoid trouble. |
Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal. | tjic: I've been cooking low-carb for a few weeks as an experiment.For dinners I've been having a bit of meat over a large salad.Last night:1) half a bag of mixed lettuces
2) a diced tomato
3) 6-8 oz of frozen shrimp, thawed, pan fried in a dab of oil and a big heap of cajun spices
4) some home made dressing from acquaintances who run a local pizzeria and bottle their own dressing.Other variants:
* replace cajun shrimp with chicken breasts ground and cooked up taco-style, and throw some thin-sliced red onion and thick-cut avacado in there
* ...or a steak, marinated for a few hrs in fresh squeezed lime juice and soy sauce, then quickly seared on a grill.When you're eating a lot of bulk veggies, a little premium priced meat goes a long way.When you're eating mos |
CSS framework for rapid prototyping? | qhoxie: A number of the 'heavier' (read: not barebones) frameworks have styles for elements like forms. It sounds like you might be more interested in a template of sorts, which would probably make more sense for RP. |
how to push to a live site? | run4yourlives: Could you define "push"? If it what I think you mean, you may want to check out some of the deployment chapters in the documentation of rails, django and other frameworks. They're usually not too bad at explaining how to get from dev to live.SVN also has some documentation on their site, and I imagine git would have something similar. |
how to push to a live site? | amrithk: Hi,
Would you be able to share some of the books and links on the internet you have been reading that describes how to scale web services? |
how to push to a live site? | alex_c: If you happen to be using Ruby, then Capistrano (http://www.capify.org/) is awesome.I imagine there are similar solutions for other languages.Worst case scenario, you can roll your own. A very basic trick is to use symbolic links on your server - deploy the site to a new folder, and simply point the symbolic link to the new folder when you're done. |
CSS framework for rapid prototyping? | earle: yeah YUI and grids do precisely thishttp://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ |
Did you switch to Chrome? | rjett: I still use Firefox for the advantages of firebug. |
Did you switch to Chrome? | ph0rque: Waiting for the official Linux version here. |
Did you switch to Chrome? | LogicHoleFlaw: I've been using both Chrome and Firefox lately. I absolutely love the simplified Chrome interface. I can't use it as my main browser though until it supports addons. I have too many must-have firefox addons to leave FF behind. |
how to push to a live site? | zitterbewegung: Using lisp if you have a network based REPL you can modify the running code live without taking the site down. |
how to push to a live site? | iigs: Approach 1)A long time ago I worked (in a very small testing capacity) at a very large video/streaming media serving company.As I recall, the scripted procedure was to tag a release in CVS, and a script would pull that down into a new directory and swing the symlink.This site had a very mature and infrequently changing billing system code path, which I believe was not modified in this process. If this doesn't describe your workload you would probably have to change this to support concurrent execution of multiple versions for people who have a session establishedApproach 2)Using any mainstream hardware load balancer (or presumably a similarly featureful free/open software LB), configure it to point at N+1 machines in a cluster. Administratively remove machines from the new session pool one at a time (virtual machines can make this flexible and easy to roll back). Once the established sessions have expired or been forced out, upgrade the software and roll them back in.One neat aspect of this approach is if you have an "oh shit" hockey stick scaling issue, you can watch it happen on one machine before deploying it to every machine in your cluster. Also good for A/B testing, as mentioned in recent articles here. |
Did you switch to Chrome? | byrneseyeview: On my work PC, yes. Ironically, I have to use Firefox to change the settings for Google Desktop. |
Did you switch to Chrome? | unalone: I will once it's on Mac. Till then it's the nightly WebKits. |
how to push to a live site? | cosmo7: Deploy by svn. It's amazingly simple, and simple is usually best.If you're smart you can orchestrate db changes non-destructively. If less smart use capistrano. |
how to push to a live site? | tlrobinson: Deploying a long-running JavaScript application, like 280 Slides (and most Cappuccino apps), on one hand can be trivial (just copy the client resources to your webserver!), but also can be an interesting challenge. Namely keeping clients running an old version of the client-side code using the corresponding version of the server-side app. When you add in something like Gears for offline access it gets even tougher. There was a good presentation at Google IO that covered all these issues: http://sites.google.com/site/io/taking-large-scale-applicati...We wrote a little custom code (we call it "bake") for deploying Cappuccino applications:"bake": http://github.com/280north/cappuccino/tree/master/Tools/bake...sample "bakefile": http://github.com/280north/cappuccino/tree/master/Tools/bake...It pulls your code from git (but could easily do local files, scp, rsync, svn, etc), runs an optional build command (like "ant"), copies source paths to destination paths in a deployment directory, gzips the deployment directory, scp's the code to your server(s), ungzips it, and does a little magic...Each version is placed in it's entirety in a uniquely named (unix timestamp) subdirectory. We could just redirect from "/" to "/1221268756/" (for example) but that's incredibly ugly, so we use the little known HTML <base> tag to trick it. The index.html file in "/" is identical to the one in "/1221268756/" except it has a <base> tag which tells the app all URLs are relative to "/1221268756/" instead of the default containing directory ("/").And it actually seems to work really well. The big advantage of this is you can set your cache expire date arbitrarily far in the future, and your entire app will be cached until you change index.html to point to a new <base>. 280 Slides, which is ~2.6MB uncompressed, loads on my computer in about 1.5 seconds if it's cached. The only problem with this approach is when you deploy, all clients will have to re-download every resource, even ones that don't change. A more granular system would be ideal, but significantly more complex.I looked at Capistrano briefly but decided against it for some reason I can't remember. Perhaps that would have been better, but c'est la vie... |
Wallstreet News slinkset site | immad: nonhackernews.com already kind of serves that need. Do people want a wallstreet only social news site? |
Did you switch to Chrome? | kamme: I have it installed and it works great but I must admit I didn't make the switch, partially because of the lack of extensions (I'm a web developer so I use firebug, webdev toolbar, etc a lot).But it also made me think about what I like about chrome. Then I went looking for extensions to install on Firefox and I must admit I don't miss chrome because I have most of the good stuff in Firefox now! |
Did you switch to Chrome? | safetytrick: No, Chrome doesn't have a few of the goodies I love in Firefox, addons of course and keywords / %s goodness. Its a great browser (Love not waiting for a slow tab) but Firefox is much more powerful to me. |
Did you switch to Chrome? | delackner: I don't know why I haven't seen more complaints of this, but for both me and another colleague in my office, when Chrome is running (this is in XP) the system freezes for several seconds at totally random times, even when Chrome is just sitting in the background. Total deal breaker. |
What is the fastest way for American customers to pay to a company in India? | billroberts: credit card? Assuming the Indian company can set itself up with a merchant ID and payment processor. |
Ask HN:How to fix 11.2 million % inflation in Zimbabwe? | rms: Revolution. Or convincing Mugabe to read an introductory macroeconomics text. |
Ask HN:How to fix 11.2 million % inflation in Zimbabwe? | michael_dorfman: I gave up on page 12(!).Sorry, but one sentence of text per page is not the way to intelligently discuss a serious topic. I don't know what the solution to Zimbabwe's inflation is, but I can guarantee that it won't be found from Twitter-like discussion. |
What is the fastest way for American customers to pay to a company in India? | SwellJoe: I've generally used wire transfers...but US banks suck for wire transfers. They look at you like you're speaking a foreign language. I've found Washington Mutual here in Mountain View to be the best about it I've ever seen (which isn't to say they're good...just better), and they're the cheapest, as well, at $20/transfer. Previous banks charged more (like $32-$40 per transfer), and acted like I was a crazy person for trying to give them a SWIFT code.So, I hate doing wire transfers, but when PayPal and a US bank check is not an option, I've bucked up and done it. I've heard that Western Union is a reasonable option, as well, for many overseas destinations. I'm not sure if India is one of them. |
Ask HN:How to fix 11.2 million % inflation in Zimbabwe? | jacobscott: Probably regime change. Echo complaints about poor formatting. |
What is the fastest way for American customers to pay to a company in India? | paraschopra: Western Union is pretty reliable and has a wide network in India. I personally had a very good experience with them. |
Ask HN:How to fix 11.2 million % inflation in Zimbabwe? | bilbo0s: Let's try to prevent it from happening here first. After that, we'll consider how we can help the rest of the world. |
Wallstreet News slinkset site | mstefff: Can I shamelessly promote my Wall Street news aggregator (non-social but much more useful) -> http://www.streetread.comPersonally, I don't think there is much room for social news with regard to Wall Street. With general market news, what is important to some might be irrelevant to others, and so on. Stock-specific news can be extremely important, but only to shareholders. |
Did you switch to Chrome? | jackzombie: I have made the switch to Chrome for straight browsing, I like the simplicity of the UI, and find its much easier to navigate from site to site. |
Any Mexican hackers out there? | trickjarrett: I'm not in Mexico, but it's good to see tech startups in countries other than the US and Europe. Best of luck! |
Any Mexican hackers out there? | rodrigo: Check http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=74054Mexican living in Ciudad de Mexico, Im not a practicing hacker though, just very interested in ideas and programming, throw me a line losdosplebitos at gmail. |
django vs php: a hard choice | mixmax: A few points:- Don't worry about scaling problems - if you have scaling problems you have a succes already. 99% of startups unfortunately never get to have scaling problems.- The main focus should be to get the killer-webapp up and running, not getting a CV or trying out a new technology. Starting a company is in itself a huge challenge. No need to add to the risk by trying to do it in a language you're not familiar with. If you're good at PHP stick with it.Just my two cents...Where in Europe are you from btw? |
django vs php: a hard choice | bockris: Django released version 1.0 earlier this month so your concern about it changing out from under you is probably a non-issue.You should try it for a small test site. Either you will like it or you won't. IMO, scaling problems in web apps are a application design issue, not a technology issue.
JM2C. |
django vs php: a hard choice | run4yourlives: You do realize you're comparing apples to oranges right?django is a framework, and PHP is a language. You should be comparing django to CakePHP (or whatever) or PHP to Python.Assuming the latter, having gone from C++ to VB (pre-.com) to ASP to PHP to Ruby (briefly) to Python, I really prefer python as a language.I think mixmax's advice though should be heeded. |
django vs php: a hard choice | rob: Most people in the real world use PHP, but those on reddit and HN tend to go against the grain and use Python (or Ruby). If you know PHP, don't bother changing; there's nothing wrong with it. |
django vs php: a hard choice | adatta02: check out the symfony framework for php - http://www.symfony-project.org/It has MVC architecture, is decently fast, and has an active community behind it. |
django vs php: a hard choice | trezor: A few points:- Don't worry about scaling, like mixmax said.- The main focus should be to get the killer-webapp up and running, not getting a CV or trying out new technology. However, you don't have to step far outside the PHP communities to see people shitting on PHP everywhere.If PHP is the only thing you know, do yourself a favour and widen your horizons. Not necessarily for this particular project, but because when the time comes, and you are getting fed up with PHP's shortcomings, at least you know there is a way out.Me, myself? I'm a heavily invested C#/.Net developer, but prior to that I have worked with Atmel AVR Assembly, Motorola 68k assembly, Basic, Pascal, Python, Arexx, C, VHDL, Verilog, LabView, Matlab, Java and god knows what. Oh, and yes, PHP.I may stick to C#, but I know there is another world out there. So should you. |
django vs php: a hard choice | gtani: One of my deciders is how many people are blogging or writing to mailing lists with problems or tutorials or sample code, whatever. Django is really a nice framework, but when you start googling specific issues, e.g. working with an ajax lib or finding/deploying to a VPS/ shared host, ther'es a lot more blog entries on specific issues/techniques that people have used in PHP than in Django. Also true for PHP activity in delicious, subreddits, stackoverflow, and the wall of PHP books at Borders.You might want to look at the recetn django articleshttp://jeffcroft.com/blog/2008/jul/25/top-ten-things-suck-ab...http://42topics.com/blog/2008/04/five-things-i-hate-about-dj...http://justin.harmonize.fm/index.php/2008/09/django-round-2/ |
django vs php: a hard choice | simonw: Do a weekend project in Django and see how it works for you.It's certainly a good skill to have from an employment point of view - the Django job market has exploded over the past year, see http://www.djangogigs.com/ |
django vs php: a hard choice | danw: Django v php is a strange comparison. Framework vs language.Python is a nicer language than PHP, and Django is a nice framework. If you already have knowledge of php then you can probably get your app running faster with a php framework such as Symfony. |
django vs php: a hard choice | bootload: "... tend to choose php because I know it, I know it is well supported, it scales without large problems, I can configure it and optimize it without a problem. ..."Then stick with it. |
django vs php: a hard choice | awad: If you know it, stick with PHP...you can create your app rapidly instead of picking up the nuances of a new language/framework. While there are a lot of criticisms of the language, the fact is there are tons of resources available if(when?) you need it.And, reiterating what some of the other posters have said, don't worry about the scaling. A well designed app in PHP or Django or Java or Rails (Twitter failed because of its flawed design...not because Rails sucks) or whatever else will scale. |
django vs php: a hard choice | jonny_noog: I agree with other posters. If your one and only goal is to get your site up and running, then for sure stick to what you know... Use straight PHP or a PHP framework.If however, you have the dual goals of getting your site up and running and also learning new and better technology that has the possibility of making you more effective in the future (initial development on your current project will be slower, but it will pay off in the long run), then go with Django... Or Rails... I'm a recovering PHP-aholic, who's moving onto Ruby, so I just had to put that in.Good luck. |
django vs php: a hard choice | tdavis: Stick with what you know. Having said that, at some point I recommend learning a better language than PHP, like Python. Coming from a PHP background myself, I can honestly say that my programming life got noticeably better after having started writing everything in Python instead. That was a couple years ago and I wouldn't go back for anything. |
django vs php: a hard choice | midnightmonster: I'm a longtime PHP developer who has been flirting with server-side JavaScript frameworks recently, including building a couple production apps in Helma.For my current RAD project, the client has their own IT staff who don't want to support another environment, so it was back to PHP. On Rasmus' good words, I tried using the CodeIgniter framework (never used a pre-existing PHP framework before) but ran into pain with its many kludges to support PHP 4. Then found Kohana, which is CodeIgniter rebuilt for PHP 5 only. I'm lovin' it.I was all gung-ho for server-side JS, but Kohana combined with my own ORM is going very nicely. (I don't know about Kohana's ORM--I started working on mine before I had decided to use any framework.) The biggest benefits, of course, are that it runs most everywhere and my long experience with PHP prevents the odd surprises I was always running into with the JS frameworks.And, hey, first class functions and closure are coming in PHP 5.3!So the grass isn't always greener--it seems what I was missing was a better way of organizing my code as much as straight language power. So try a good PHP framework--I recommend Kohana. And even though python and js are more powerful languages, having a whole bunch of stuff already built for you and ready to run anywhere beats power and a clean room most of the time. |
django vs php: a hard choice | jamongkad: I'm surprised nobody recommended CodeIgniter to this guy. Which is by far IMHO one of the better PHP frameworks out there. Also do try Kohana as well! as I heard it's a more powerful version of CI.Thankfully my day job consists of me hacking in CI (which is a Godsend) but my current passion lies in HaXe. So if anything try out other languages to expand your mind. But if you don't have the time and luxury and you want to get that killer app up and running. You might as well stick to your main competency and slug it out in PHP. |
django vs php: a hard choice | cosmo7: You're kind of asking two questions in one:PHP or Python? and Framework or homebrew?If you switch from PHP to Python and things don't work out, you'll blame Python. I'd stick with PHP.If you use a framework and it doesn't work out you can just code away from the framework. I'd go with Zend Framework. It takes some effort to learn the router stuff, but never seeing another url that ends with .php is worth it on it's own.Good luck! |
django vs php: a hard choice | whacked_new: Django 1.0 was released recently. It's a good time to jump in. Strange as it may seem, you can use both. I do.But all advice is quite pointless -- suppose you decide not to try out Django. Without actually realizing how it works, you will always have lingering doubts about whether it would have served your purpose better.A lot of people don't understand the difference between Flash and Flex. There is a large overlap in functionality, but a big difference also. Should I use Fs or Fx? Without actually using it for a bit, you can't tell.It's like going to a restaurant and seeing somebody eating something. They look happy eating it, but you don't know if it fits your own appetite unless you try it yourself :) |
Wallstreet News slinkset site | dc2k08: thanks for reminding me of slinkset. havent been back in a while. the site looks and works brilliantly. definitely going to use it for one of my projects. |
django vs php: a hard choice | walesmd: I have been bouncing back and forth between Django, Ruby on Rails, merb and many other frameworks/languages for the exact same reasons. I'm a nerd, I enjoying learning new languages and it would look great on a resume to have a few more under my belt.But - I always come back to PHP (and the wonderful CodeIgniter framework) when I actually need to get something accomplished. I know it like the back of my hand and I don't care what any of you say about the other languages and frameworks - I could not develop my applications anywhere near as quickly as I could in PHP.Yes, some of those frameworks are designed for rapid development - once you know the parent language! I say find a powerful framework for PHP designed for rapid development and stick with what you know. Play with Python and Ruby on your own time. |
django vs php: a hard choice | maxklein: Trust me, go with PHP. Django is good to use if you are interested in learning a new language an improving your skills in python, but if you are interested in starting a company, then absolutely go with PHP. I've used Django for 2 big projects now, and I'm telling you this from experience. Here is why:1. Django is quite difficult to learn. You'll waste a month or two getting into the framework2. You will NOT find developers to work on Django, and the ones you do will be VERY expensive3. Once you know Django well, you'll find that there is not that much of a faster development cycle than PHP, unless you are doing something newspaper related. For newspaper related sites, there are shortcuts, but for everything else, it's pretty much the same routine4. Hosting for django is expensive. On a $10 a month host, a PHP site will run fast. For Django you need to get a $100 virtual server. Big difference.5. Django does very little PR, so the language seems to be cooling off in terms of visibility. This means - less applications, less snippets, few books. It's becoming a bit of an elitist culture, which sucks big time6. The IRC channel is becoming like the C++ channel. Snobby and condenscating.Recently, a person I know decided to rewrite his entire Django app in Rails because he could not find any developer for his Django app.It's not a hard choice. Go with PHP. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | noodle: i'd probably take one or two billion and buy myself a giant island to live on and forever take care of my personal needs. and fly into space a few times, too.after that, i'd take the half of the remaining and invest it in technology and fields that i'd like to see improved (i.e. space travel, science, alternative energy, etc etc)i'd take the other half and invest/give it to more charitable devices (poverty relief & research, disease research, land preservation funds, etc etc)basically, try and make the world a better place. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | rokhayakebe: Release the hundreds of drugs some people will not approve because that will hurt their financial interest. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | sfamiliar: give $11,000 to each of the 62 million households in the u.s. making under $50,000. watch the ensuing chaos with glee. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | no_body: I would bootstrap the asteroid mining economy, invest in micro-terraforming and nano-technology so that each asteroid could become it's own self sufficient republic.
Yay Anarchy ! |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | ivankirigin: Build a space elevator and start mining the asteroids. This involves a robot army that would need to be built as well. No, I'm not joking |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | jcapote: Super Crack Party. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | Jasber: Nation-wide high-speed wireless. Computers for schools. Spend the rest on paying down our debt. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | whacked_new: Create an alternative, multi-tiered research funding organization and proceed to turn the education system upside down.In fact, $700b is more than enough to do this several times over, so the surplus will probably go to funding a century of other programs related to exploration, bioengineering, green technology, and other sustainable development projects.Seriously, what could it be other than this? |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | pavelludiq: I would start my own aircraft company, all my planes would have lisp based auto pilot AI's. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | kingkongrevenge: Buy off the government. Mostly dismantle it. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | fallentimes: World's biggest gravity bong; it'd take the place of Ohio. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | kamme: I think I would buy an uninhabited island and make it a research facility where top scientists can work together and find a way to optimize solar power and batteries.If I have those I will start a production company that makes those inventions and sells them at the price (or below) it costs to make the goods so everyone can use them. I would also invest in agriculture in dry area's (africa for example). What I would NOT do is waste it on politics, that's why I want the uninhabited island. If you build a facility/production company with that goal there will be government regulations about it and as most of us know, they tend to screw things up and only care for their wallet.Also a part of that money will go to education and proper sports centers. I'm a bit overweight myself and I want people to know better then always go to McDonalds and have the option to do any sport they like, as it should be. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | drhowarddrfine: Put it in the bank. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | schtog: surfing-equipment + house on hawaii ~ 6million$baller-life-style-money: 10$million.my own scientific/tech projects, 1billion.rest i would donate to various scientifc rpoject sand charity. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | yaj: Shift 3rd/4th world countries to 1st/2nd world. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | steveplace: Remember, 700B pays for around 400 space shuttles.Just to give a sense of scale. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | maxklein: A monocle, a cape and a vizier. Then I'll do whatever he tells me to do with it. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | dangoldin: I don't see how this is different than any of the other "Non Hacker News" stories yet this one gets approval. What's up? |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | Retric: Invest 50 billion and spend each years profit trying to build a real working fusion power plant, (~1 new ITER style plant design per year pick the best one and build it every 5.) when that's working invest the 50billion in power plants and keep growing till all the worlds energy needs are met. I expect 20 - 30 years till first one works and then massive ramp up.50 billion 3rd world sweat shops to jump start the worlds economy.100 billion, retro fit a lane on all US highway's with electric grids / contacts so there is no need for battery systems and we can go electric now. I would start by targeting the commercial trucking industry and then move to cars.1billion fun money for me.And I don't know about the rest. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | natch: Solar electric for, back of the envelope, maybe 1/3rd of the US total electricity supply. I'm not an electric power expert - maybe someone with actual expertise will correct me. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | davidw: If you'll settle for Zimbabwe dollars, that shouldn't be too hard to arrange. |
Any Mexican hackers out there? | xiaoma: How about the Gnome guy? |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | thomasmallen: You know what I would do if I had seven hundred million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds, and then take the other half over to my friend Asadura who works over in Securities... |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | mtw: research in space travel, terraform Mars, build cheaper space shuttles |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | jm4: Two chicks at the same time.Seriously, I have no idea what I'd do with that amount of money. If I was completely selfish maybe I'd buy an island somewhere. I sure as hell wouldn't use it to bail out a bunch of failed businesses whose executives have been giving themselves multi-million dollar bonuses. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | gtani: I would hire a team of 87,000 competent developers to develop better documentation for java, C#, javascript, python and ruby. Oh yeah, erlang, OCaml, F#, a few others. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | rsheridan6: I'd buy a sovereign country and break it up into city-states, and allow them to compete with each other as an experiment to see which policies and forms of government are the most effective. It would be kind of like Pokemon for social science geeks. You could have libertaritopia, commietopia, fascistopia, etc, and you'd get to see what happens. For motivational purposes, after 50 years I would have barbarian hordes burn and pillage the unsuccessful ones.If I couldn't find somebody to sell me a country I would build large offshore platforms or rafts that would fulfill the same function. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | earle: Short the dollar into capitulation :) |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | floozyspeak: Go to war with IRAQ! |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | boredguy8: Invest in the stock market. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | sdurkin: Build nuclear power plants, and fund fusion research. Permanently end our addiction to oil. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | vaksel: Build a huge space station...something that can be seen with bare eyes during daylight. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | bwag: Build the world's largest super computer. Then ask it what the meaning of life is. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | froo: 700B dollars... Well given the odds of me obtaining that amount of money is just shy of being pure fantasy, I figure the only real answer to this would be in the realm of fantasy too.So, 700B - here's my shopping list. Create Jurassic Park
Army of Super Oompa Loompas - perhaps with bionic implants
Moon based Laser "Defense" system
Universal Optional Breast Enhancement Surgery
Giant Robot of Doom
Another Giant Robot (so the first one never feels lonely)
Build an even bigger supercollider, just to scare the bejeezus out of the irrational people
Terraform Mars
Create a religion based around the works of Bruce Campbell
I figure I'd get some change out of that list, so I'd buy a few people a couple beers.Next stupid question please! |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | neilk: It would be pretty easy to knock off all water-borne diseases. Distribute existing technology to clean water where it's needed, or use that newfangled thing that Dean Kamen has.Bribe all genociding warmongers (e.g. in Sudan) into retirement. Pay for relocation and land redistribution of affected ethnic groups.Immunize all children in the USA.Then, with the other 600 billion, I guess you could throw an awesome party. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | jmtame: probably start 700 seed fund firms |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | mhb: Hire 70 trillion people to draw me a $700 billion bill. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | gills: Energy development (fusion and solar).Compact self-contained hydroponic gardens (think shipping container). |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | geuis: A very large truck of cigarettes, enough to last my family for the rest of our lives. Then scream "I'm rich biatch!" and honk my truck's horn a couple times. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | elai: I would create a commercially viable, extremely useful version (versus just plastic doodads) of the self-replicating fabricator ( http://reprap.org ), design a decent computer & solar cell that could be easily manufactured by this fabricator and is easy to make into a cluster system (and have semi decent performance). And create some fabrication programs that can manufacture buildings, farming equipment and other such essentials.Then I would fund a bunch of funding into cures for third world evils like malaria and such. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | timtrueman: Microsoft just bought back stock with its cash. How about a down-payment on our national debt? |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | ars: It's fun to read these, but I feel compelled to point out that the 700 Billion is not going to be spent, but rather it's the amount the US is on the hook for.The last time the US did this they not only got all the money back, they even made a small profit.To join along: if I had the money I'd spend all of it on as many nuclear reactors, to generate electricity, as I could. I'd standardize the design to keep the costs as low as possible. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | jah: Rest |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | lallysingh: Hookers and RAM.When I've got a good rate with a few of the girls, and my DIMM banks are filled, I'd probably start building a loyal robot army to help fight the evil ones that come with the inevitable robot apocalypse.Each of which, incidentally, will require RAM. |
What would you do with $700 Billion? | beaudeal: probably something like this: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/gallery/251007war_costs?pg...i mean, no more poverty and educating every child on earth for 7 years seems like a good idea... |
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