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They need $10,000 to do the test and are looking for donors. C'mon one of you HN tech millionaires - pick up the phone and cut them a check.
by seibelj 9y ago
They need $10,000 to do the test and are looking for donors. C'mon one of you HN tech millionaires - pick up the phone and cut them a check.
- melling 9y ago...or 10,000 people could donate a $1. Not sure why we’re always looking for rich people to solve problems. There’s a lot more the rest of us could do.
- jacquesm 9y agoTransaction costs on 10K payments of $1 are a lot higher than one payment of 10K. The optimum is probably somewhere in the middle.
- thanatropism 9y ago10K sure looks like optimum. There's this psychological effect where, sure, I could donate 10K from my modest net wealth, but it's also > 1 month of earnings for me and I'm sure it's pocket change for someone wealthier. (This might be the entire libertarian case for the existence of some kind of tax-collecting state)
- melling 9y agoso, you get my point? The pendant HN crowd never lets you down. Rather than turn this into a pointless debate about the optimal amount to give... So, I’ll ask that in addition to stop being cheap, maybe we can solve the micropayment problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment