Bill Gates, famous climate activist? Mmm.
The problem with AI is that no one has gotten around to asking it how to solve climate change. Once we do, it'll all be ok
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The MA hate is real and well deserved but there actually was a period of time where IE was the browser of choice for all the right reasons. People forget that part, but Microsoft has really made good products when they want to.
Plus IE got the box model right in the first place. It really was a good browser and had an interesting design with COM / MSHTML for embedding. The problem really was that it stagnated and had no real competition until Chrome (even though Firefox was slowly gaining traction) Plus during this time there was little competition on the desktop market in general. iPhone and smart phones, and the Apple resurgence, was yet…
Yep, the IE 6 era felt like it lasted forever. It was a solid browser, relatively stable and fast (compared to Netscape, at least.) IE was also the main browser on Mac OS X for the first couple of releases!
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No idea why these comments keep getting downvoted. The Epstein connection and what he did to Melinda has destroyed any credibility he once had among the general public.
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#117Is anyone keeping track of all these “partnerships” and “investments” in one place? This is all turning into a ton of what looks like PR fodder that appears to go nowhere.
Ed Zitron[1] has a lot of articles and podcast episodes on these deals. The nice thing about it is that he occasionally revisits the old announcements to check what happened with them. Apparently a lot of these deals just evaporate after prolonged contact with reality. [1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/
That guy needs to chill down. You listen to it and then after the umpteenth episode you just turn it off. He enjoys his own voice very MUCH. And he repeats the same thing again and again and again, and it is very tiring.
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#118Evil & Evil unite. To explain: first, they did not pay proper taxes, in particular the older Evil here. But even more importantly, in the USA a foundation can own patents, among other things. They need to give out a certain % on a yearly basis, but basically it is a corporation.
Gates is probably the least evil person I can think of. The truly decrepit evil lies in the halls of our government now.
You must know a lot of shitty people or just aggressively bought into his not-so-recent PR switch. Maybe both.
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What purpose does a statement like this serve? Like most, I’d much rather my food not be spiked at all.
The purpose is overlooking a great man’s great achievements with some piddling nonsense no one cares about.
What "great" thing has Bill Gates ever done? He's engaged in predatory business practices, released utterly shite products and is most famous for being an Epstein guy. Obviously a lot of people care judging by the amount of (now flagged) comments about it in this thread.
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Would you please stop posting flamewar comments and otherwise breaking the site guidelines? You did a ton of it here, and it's not what this site is for.
(No, I'm not defending whatever egregious crimes you're commenting about. HN is just not for this type of commenting, and feeding trolls and then responding with further outrage to the troll you just fed is a leading form of what we don't want here.)
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Edit: besides the above, it looks like your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We ban that sort of account - see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... I don't want to ban you if you'd please fix this, that would be good.