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Re: Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript

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Post by brianmckenzie »

vlad wrote: post #6
mattjaynes wrote: post #2

"The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity."

I want to touch on apathy. That's so true. When I ran for Student Body President at 18, people said I couldn't do it. Then, when I did become Student Body President at 19 (it was a big two-year school my parents made me attend), everybody else in Student Government said there would be too much apathy in the student body to have a student-run newspaper. Also, students said a chess club wouldn't happen. Finally, admini…

That was pretty good, but Steve Pavlina IS a nutjob with a bunch of affiliate programs. Just sayin'

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Post by zurla »

was I the only one a bit disappointed by this speech?

Steve Jobs and company set the bar pretty high I suppose, but this speech wasn't that great, and many people have made these same points much better. And I'm not sure that he justified his assumption that inequality is necessarily an evil. this isn't about exactly the same thing, i admit, but doesn't paul graham have an essay about inequality in a society being a good thing, a sign of a healthy economy, or something like that?

oh, and i could picture the audience shifting uncomfortably at his jokes about trying to score chicks at radcliffe.

Re: Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript

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Post by budu3 »

zurla wrote: post #13

was I the only one a bit disappointed by this speech? Steve Jobs and company set the bar pretty high I suppose, but this speech wasn't that great, and many people have made these same points much better. And I'm not sure that he justified his assumption that inequality is necessarily an evil. this isn't about exactly the same thing, i admit, but doesn't paul graham have an essay about inequality in a society being a…

Inequality, a sign of a good economy? Are you kidding me?

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Post by zurla »

budu3 wrote: post #14
zurla wrote: post #13

was I the only one a bit disappointed by this speech? Steve Jobs and company set the bar pretty high I suppose, but this speech wasn't that great, and many people have made these same points much better. And I'm not sure that he justified his assumption that inequality is necessarily an evil. this isn't about exactly the same thing, i admit, but doesn't paul graham have an essay about inequality in a society being a…

Inequality, a sign of a good economy? Are you kidding me?

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Re: Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript

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Post by shankys »

budu3 wrote: post #14
zurla wrote: post #13

was I the only one a bit disappointed by this speech? Steve Jobs and company set the bar pretty high I suppose, but this speech wasn't that great, and many people have made these same points much better. And I'm not sure that he justified his assumption that inequality is necessarily an evil. this isn't about exactly the same thing, i admit, but doesn't paul graham have an essay about inequality in a society being a…

Inequality, a sign of a good economy? Are you kidding me?

See http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

Re: Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript

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Post by ced »

zurla wrote: post #13

was I the only one a bit disappointed by this speech? Steve Jobs and company set the bar pretty high I suppose, but this speech wasn't that great, and many people have made these same points much better. And I'm not sure that he justified his assumption that inequality is necessarily an evil. this isn't about exactly the same thing, i admit, but doesn't paul graham have an essay about inequality in a society being a…

Inequality within an economy where everyone has equal opportunity might be optimal, but that's nothing like the state of the world we're in.

Re: Bill Gates Harvard Commencement Transcript

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Post by pg »

budu3 wrote: post #19
shankys wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html

The link is broken or it's not pointing to the essay.

I fixed it.

(The period was getting incorporated into the url; if you turn urls into links, it's not straightforward to say where they end.)

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