Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media • Hacker News Board

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by bigbluedots » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 11:15 AM UTC

dorkwood wrote: post #273

pengaru wrote: post #260

I strongly recommend watching the impromptu interview Bill Gates gave back in the 90s while visiting the Wired office, for gaining some valuable perspective on his thinking, and how comically wrong he's been before. My internet is too flaky here at the moment to verify, but I believe this is the URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFlO7yBIBM

It's interesting to hear what Bill's opinion of the web browser business was in 1996. "That's a good business. It's zero times a number."

He was right: nobody is paying for a web browser.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by graeme » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

blisseyGo wrote: post #419

graeme wrote: post #388

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I believe you’re downvoted for mentioning politics but it is true. The US had an effective pandemic infrastructure, which got dismantled in 2018. This isn’t unique to the US. Canada had an extremely effective pandemic forecasting agency. This got dismantled by two separate governments since 2014. I can’t find the article but the globe and mail had a big exposé. The Atlantic article above is one of the top five articl…

The dismantling of pandemic infrastructure is false news being spread. That's not what happened.

You can set google to search articles from 2018, when everyone referred to it as the team being disbanded and warned of trouble. Administration officials have tried to spin it as not disbanding it, but it’s not obvious why they should be viewed as being correct. Some 2018 articles:

* https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/2/23/16974012/tr...

* https://khn.org/morning-breakout/global-health-security-team... * https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/white-hou...

Pandemic preparedness was merged with WMD control. The below article refers to it as streamlining but notes

>The abrupt departure of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council means no senior administration official is now focused solely on global health security. Ziemer’s departure, along with the breakup of his team, comes at a time when many experts say the country is already underprepared for the increasing risks of a pandemic or bioterrorism attack.

https://www.kff.org/news-summary/elimination-of-nsc-global-h...

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by dzhiurgis » Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 5:38 AM UTC

neskiredk wrote: post #452

raziel2p wrote: post #445

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What exactly do you mean by chip tracking?

During Bill Gates reddit AMA, he was proposing the idea, even concluding that it would be a necessity to have travel go back to normal. That we have microchips embeded, that store our "public information", such as viral infection and vaccination status. I say that it quotations, because i do not believe it is the governments place nor right, to make public, crucial medical data about individuals. In a perfect system,…

Can't we just use smartphones or passports for it? Although implanted chips would solve quite a few humanity problems (and create more power for authoritarian nations).

Also I don't believe dangerous people should have all sort of rights to privacy. We already ask pedos to introduce themselves to neighbours (at least in movies), why shouldn't same apply for deadly viruses? I guess this forum is frequented by too many Californians where knowingly giving someone AIDS is not a crime anymore.

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by dzhiurgis » Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 7:49 AM UTC

throwaway373438 wrote: post #172

brandontreb wrote: post #87

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That's a 'dumb` RFID chip. I don't think folks are too concerned with offline chips that require close proximity scanning (for power). RFID also doesn't 'track' dogs. They contain information about the dog to get them back to their owner. The info is static and contains NO location data.

You may want to re-evaluate your opinion. The "tracking microchip" conspiracies mostly stem from tracking chips (dumb RFID) used to tag wildlife. These people don't know how the technology works, but they do know that we tag and track animals. They're not wrong that we use microchips in this fashion.

AFAIK biggest microchip conspiracy is that it will be able to control brains...

Re: Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media

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Post by BeatLeJuce » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 11:05 AM UTC

olivermarks wrote: post #487

sukilot wrote: post #247

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Instead of donating to existing public health (and education) organizations, OS programmer Gates created his own so that his personal biases wouldn't be challenged.

@BeatLeJuce You don't have to go very far online to find the answers to you question. James Corbett has amassed a formidable array of facts and history, for example.

This guy: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_Corbett ? I'm sorry, but that is nowhere close to a credible source