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Inside Bill’s Brain

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Bill wrote about this on his blog yesterday:

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/From-the-cutting...

It’s unfortunate that they were ready to build the TerraPower pilot nuclear plant in China and the recent trade war prevented it.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/te...

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Carmack just tweeted this about Gates:

I only met Bill Gates once, but I was very impressed — I was going on about problems in the windows graphics stack, and despite it not being his expertise, I thought he “got it” faster than his domain experts in the room.

The replies are filled with similar anecdotes.

tweet: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1175405258975141893

Re: Inside Bill’s Brain

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post #2

Bill wrote about this on his blog yesterday: https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/From-the-cutting... It’s unfortunate that they were ready to build the TerraPower pilot nuclear plant in China and the recent trade war prevented it. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/te...

The sad thing is that the States aren't interested in this technology or why does it take so long to get it done there? It would be great to use waste material to get more energy out before burying it again. I'm from Germany, sadly thou, most of the people are to uneducated and scared to push atomic power station to the next level. Great documentation btw.

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It's sad that there is an extremely interesting documentary that could be done about Bill Gates, but all we get is his propaganda.

Gates is turning into a Soros like figure, and there are all sorts of interesting and controversial wrinkles in the story of the man.

Even just looking at the story of Gates's influence at Vox would be interesting, without even trying to make hay of his relationship with Stephen Pinker.

Anyway, Citations Needed did a couple episodes (45 & 46) on Gates that are a good introduction.

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-45-the-not-so...

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post #4
post #2

Bill wrote about this on his blog yesterday: https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/From-the-cutting... It’s unfortunate that they were ready to build the TerraPower pilot nuclear plant in China and the recent trade war prevented it. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25728221/te...

The sad thing is that the States aren't interested in this technology or why does it take so long to get it done there? It would be great to use waste material to get more energy out before burying it again. I'm from Germany, sadly thou, most of the people are to uneducated and scared to push atomic power station to the next level. Great documentation btw.

The US is bifurcated between people who see no problem with current nuclear plants and those who see any nuclear plant as an abomination in need of removal.

It’s hard to have a reasonable debate about this issue when the sides are so diametrically opposed due to their dogmatic beliefs.

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It's sad that there is an extremely interesting documentary that could be done about Bill Gates, but all we get is his propaganda. Gates is turning into a Soros like figure, and there are all sorts of interesting and controversial wrinkles in the story of the man. Even just looking at the story of Gates's influence at Vox would be interesting, without even trying to make hay of his relationship with Stephen Pinker. A…

Will you guys please stop with the Soros bashing? There's literally no basis for all the BS being spewed about a self-made man like that.

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It's sad that there is an extremely interesting documentary that could be done about Bill Gates, but all we get is his propaganda. Gates is turning into a Soros like figure, and there are all sorts of interesting and controversial wrinkles in the story of the man. Even just looking at the story of Gates's influence at Vox would be interesting, without even trying to make hay of his relationship with Stephen Pinker. A…

I don't think you deserve to be downvoted.

On the other hand, I generally don't expect to find this in documentaries. This is what books are good at. (I'd never expect to see Power Broker content in documentary format.)

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Maybe this is unfair, but I hope they at least touch on the halloween documents and the antitrust suite. Anything that touches on microsoft's history should at least mention the anti-competitive practices they used to cripple competition.

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It's sad that there is an extremely interesting documentary that could be done about Bill Gates, but all we get is his propaganda. Gates is turning into a Soros like figure, and there are all sorts of interesting and controversial wrinkles in the story of the man. Even just looking at the story of Gates's influence at Vox would be interesting, without even trying to make hay of his relationship with Stephen Pinker. A…

Will you guys please stop with the Soros bashing? There's literally no basis for all the BS being spewed about a self-made man like that.

Soros is probably about the Koch of the left. I generally think he's a other worse, but that might be my economic biased - I think the Koch brothers are more libertarian than Soros is leftist. So if you have a problem with the Koches because of oversized political power from their wealth, you should also have a problem with Soros for the same reason (independent of their politics).
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