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Why not allow people to own and speculate on the popularity of numbers as
measured by a sydtem like google? You could even allow companies to
sponsor numbers. "Pi by Verizon", etc.
Previously halfbaked
Privatise_20the_20numbers_20system
[nineteenthly] beat you to it [lurch, Jun 16 2013]
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I'll buy shares in "1". According to Benford's law, it
is by far the commonest digit found at the start of
numbers in most real-world collections of
numbers. |
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Oddly, though, if you do a Google for any single
digit, it gives the same answer: "About
25,270,000,000 hits". |
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This is strange, because other people must have
noticed and recorded this phenomenon, which
should make "0" more common than the others. |
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As a general rule, any "make money by claiming rights to
something everybody needs" scheme is most likely going to
be unoriginal. |
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No matter how much delusion you sell, you will never have
any less. |
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//likely going to be unoriginal// |
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Curses, deletes Sell Oxygen On the Moon idea |
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