Accelerating Innovation with Leadership
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Accelerating Innovation with Leadership
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#2There is innovation in this year's election: a major party actually had the audacity to present a psychopathic, women-hating, racist, tax-dodging, russia-affiliated antichrist who will bring shame and destruction to America, as a candidate
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#3Linux Fanboy here saying Bill Gates would make an awesome president.
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#4There is innovation in this year's election: a major party actually had the audacity to present a psychopathic, women-hating, racist, tax-dodging, russia-affiliated antichrist who will bring shame and destruction to America, as a candidate
Did you even bother to read the article?
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#5Gates' top four priorities :
Provide everyone on earth with affordable energy without contributing to climate change.
Develop a vaccine for HIV and a cure for neurodegenerative diseases.
Protect the world from future health epidemics, which might be more infectious than Ebola and more deadly than Zika.
Give every student and teacher new tools so all students get a world-class education.
I am not even sure how to measure the third and probably not the second. So I am quite surprised to see them.
I ought to go check out the Copenhagen consensus site to see how they compare.
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#6Don't governments already do this by giving universities large research grants? http://research.fas.harvard.edu/funding-sources#federal
We could triple the grants, but that money has to come from somewhere and every corner of society has a vocal group of voters who want that money. If the future US federal leader makes it a priority to cure the HIV epidemic in foreign countries while taking away cancer research funding or slashing social security that sounds more like political suicide than leadership.
I wish he would elaborate on his education vision too. "New tools" is totally vague. Khan academy and other remote tutors?
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#7Linux Fanboy here saying Bill Gates would make an awesome president.
True. At the same time, I believe he can do more good for the world as a private individual than as the President of the USA
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#8The same public "government largesse" that Gates credits with the microchip and internet is what Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google et al have constantly worked to erode with closed-source, walled-garden ecosystems. They all would have been unable to build their empires on top of the very ecosystem that today they try to cultivate.
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#9The same public "government largesse" that Gates credits with the microchip and internet is what Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google et al have constantly worked to erode with closed-source, walled-garden ecosystems. They all would have been unable to build their empires on top of the very ecosystem that today they try to cultivate.
They sacreficed progress for their own pockets and now are asking us to not do the same.
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#10Great point is about political innovation, no one talks about it. There is no way to measure this....obamacare was a good idea but complete disaster on execution