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Anyone know if there's a recorded version of the talk I could watch? It sounded like an interesting event.
For me watching the Kinect render the images so smoothly and immediately was pretty cool. Then again I was stuck 4 floors up and couldn't see anything.
"Personally like to thank you for saving me winter algebra last year through Khan Academy investment."
"Africa, 800m today will be bigger than China or India, 20M in 2040. In terms of stability, education."
"Politics and role of web?"
"Student question on negative impact of technology."
I understand that he was just trying to get the gist across, but this is a news article. I would have rather read a more readable article an hour later.
Anyone know if there's a recorded version of the talk I could watch? It sounded like an interesting event.
There were plenty of TV cameras everywhere recording. It'll surface somewhere, likely on the UW CSE pages. For me watching the Kinect render the images so smoothly and immediately was pretty cool. Then again I was stuck 4 floors up and couldn't see anything.
Well yeah. 1 million is pretty cool. It means you're free to do whatever you like.
Cause hey i'd be pretty happy with 1 million. Or half that. Or quarter that. Or less.
Billionaire-scale conspicuous consumption is certainly overrated. But Gates's own example shows how wonderfully useful and fulfilling it can be to have tens of billions of dollars to mobilize in a really heroic cause, like working to eradicate various infectious diseases from the human experience. Just to get started, as long as we don't have clean water, plenty of food, proper healthcare, good education, meaningful…
Maybe. But it doesn't particularly make me want to be a billionaire. If the main satisfaction you get out of having $100 billion dollars is giving it all away again, I'd rather let someone else make those $100 billion dollars and give 'em away.
I figure Bill Gates made $100 billion and gave it away so I wouldn't have to. Thanks Bill!
This was an important thing for me to read. For the past several years I have been trying hard to deprogram myself of the "richer is better" mindset. Part of my problem has been the assumption that richer people believe themselves to be better than those less rich, to the point that someone like Bill Gates would think less of someone who "only" had a couple million dollars. I'm slowly weaning myself off of this damag…
I find it increasingly bizarre, day by day, that people are so fixated on money and not value, or meaningfulness. There's something about the way that money is discussed on HN that I find odd, but I haven't quite put my finger on it yet. Maybe it's that there can sometimes feel like a larger emphasis on politics or money than the things people have actually created... maybe. I'm not sure. I'm still working on figurin…
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There were plenty of TV cameras everywhere recording. It'll surface somewhere, likely on the UW CSE pages. For me watching the Kinect render the images so smoothly and immediately was pretty cool. Then again I was stuck 4 floors up and couldn't see anything.
Yeah, I was on the 5th floor. I had a good view actually, but it was a little bit hard to hear, especially at the beginning while everyone was still moving around, trying to find a place to stand.
I ended up leaving shortly after he started the Q&A. The crowd was too fanboyish for me to handle.
A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool? Not a billion dollars. But yeah I always wondered what the threshold of wealth is when you literally can do anything you want without any thought to how much.
Actually making a difference in this world.
Fuck anything for money's sake.
What he says actually is "get 1 million" "you don't need a billion" Well yeah. 1 million is pretty cool. It means you're free to do whatever you like. Cause hey i'd be pretty happy with 1 million. Or half that. Or quarter that. Or less.
Still, I like to think that Bill Gates, having been a many-billionaire since the 1980s, has lost track of what the hell a mere million dollars is worth nowadays.