Thank you! 173 people left to weigh in! On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 3:49 AM Qian Li <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to fund in three areas. > > Quantum computer design. It is the next revolution in the computing world. > Building programmable network routers that are sufficiently quick to handle > network packets at line speeds. In the meantime, router functions can be > updated as easily and economically as software updates. This will solve the > problem of Internet ossification. The deployment of new Internet technologies > such as IPv6 will thus become easy. > Home robots design. This may include cleaning, cooking, and babysitting > robots. They can free housewives from day to day housework. As a result, more > women will be able to contribute to the advance of computer networks > > Qian > > ________________________________ > From: Nnagain <[email protected]> on behalf of Dave Taht > via Nnagain <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2023 11:15 AM > To: rjmcmahon <[email protected]> > Cc: Dave Taht <[email protected]>; Network Neutrality is back! Let´s make > the technical aspects heard this time! <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NNagain] if you had a billion dollars > > thx for your thoughts! I have a fear that the other 175 other people > here that have not posted yet have all our emails are going directly > into their spam bin, so I wanted with this post to encourage people to > lean back, relax (smoke one if you got 'em! Put on some great record > on the stereo too), and propose spending an arbitrary billion $ on > something they think would be good for the computing and internet > world. > > It is otherwise such an inoptimistic world nowadays. I was delighted > to see the whole earth catalog back online: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37872774 > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 11:23 PM rjmcmahon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > o) FiWi chips and FiWi concentrators > > o) Train people in fields that give them long term careers, e.g. how to > > construct & manage fiber & RF networks > > o) Things to help with climate impacts, e.g. advertise the heck out of > > heat pumps > > o) Fund shelters and support systems for victims of domestic violence > > o) Try to find a business model that pays journalists so we don't have > > to rely on Jeff Bezos for our news > > > > I wouldn't: > > o) Buy an island in Hawaii > > o) Buy a house that's more than 2000 sq ft > > o) Buy a boat > > o) Have 11 kids with multiple women > > o) Fund anti aging research > > o) Try to build rockets to mars, unless the project hired minorities to > > do so > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4 > > > > Bob > > > in trying to initiate some out of the box thinking here... > > > > > > What would *you* do with a billion dollars? > > > > > > ... > > > > > > I wrote this in 2015. I would not change much: > > > > > > http://the-edge.taht.net/post/billion/ > > > > -- > Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html > Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos > _______________________________________________ > Nnagain mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain
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