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Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Is this his library in the background? http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg edit: Apparently so, and here's his reading recommendations from 2013 (w/ same library in background): http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013 and more: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books <- lots of reviews here

a lot of science books (chemistry, weather, etc), but no MSPress book and no computer literature?

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He added an link to a Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZnmpDrjtDc Interesting art style and that his assistants choose an old-school method to animate the movie. That gives the "information at your fingertip" a new meaning ;)

Love the MGS alert sound at the beginning.

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Not having a Reddit account, this makes me want to create one and ask Gates if he's going to protect us from the power of the cloud . By "us" I mean "people who don't really trust the cloud".

It takes like 2 seconds to make one. You don't even have to give them an email address! :)

But I would lose my status of a social outcast if I used service as popular as Reddit :)

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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I am curious what Bill Gates (or anyone who doesn't necessarily have an immediate profit making venture to promote i.e an actor) hopes to achieve with an AMA? I can't imagine they are very much fun after the first dozen questions. Promoting philanthropy to a wider audience? Bringing the spotlight on a specific cause? Its awesome that someone as busy and important as Bill Gates is willing to take the time to do this w…

His foundation makes a big "profit" by getting rid of these [1] myths. By "profit" I mean lives saved and/or enhanced. What better way of getting rid of myths than publicity?

[1] http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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Is this his library in the background? http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg edit: Apparently so, and here's his reading recommendations from 2013 (w/ same library in background): http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013 and more: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books <- lots of reviews here

Am I the only one who noticed the Weather for dummies? I wonder why he was interested on it.

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There are always thousands of questions by the time you get there. Do his assistants check everyone of them and summarize?

I've done an AMA that was pretty popular, it's not that hard to keep up actually. You start with the top voted comment, reply, go to the next, etc. Then you reload the page and do it again. It helps if you have gold because then you can highlight the stuff that is new since you last loaded the page, which helps you find the questions faster. The trick for the user is to have a good enough question to get it voted to…

Always wondered how that worked for the person answering

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Is this his library in the background? http://i.imgur.com/iqvPs7N.jpg edit: Apparently so, and here's his reading recommendations from 2013 (w/ same library in background): http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Personal/Best-Books-2013 and more: http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books <- lots of reviews here

Am I the only one who noticed the Weather for dummies? I wonder why he was interested on it.

Weather control, obviously.

Re: Bill Gates: AMA on Reddit

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For those that aren't aware, check out the "/r/tabled" subreddit [1].

From the official description: "a subreddit for tables of recent threads from places such as... /r/IAmA, /r/InternetAMA, /r/AMA, /r/AskReddit, /r/AskScience"

It makes things nice to read.

Of course, Bill Gates' new AMA will not be "tabled" yet, but as an example (and in case you missed it), here is his AMA from February 2013 [2].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/18d2n6

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