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Wasnt his only connection fcking a legal Russian teen and getting STDs from that? (And consequently getting blackmailed for that) While he's a shit person for that (taking advantage of sexual trafficking victims is despicable), I'm not sure I'd be comfortable to use that term - but maybe I'm just not informed enough?
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Any given year congress could pass something letting farmland owned before X date be passed to your children without taxes. I've seen lots of congressmen telling sob stories about a constituent losing the 8-figure family farm due to taxes. Gates owns the farmland personally, not in the foundation. But it could just be diversifying assets. Lots of tech billionaires buy up lots of land.
He’s donated something like $100 billion already… there’s no chance he’s buying farmland as an inheritance tax dodge.
Missed opportunity to call this a "Phil-Anthropic" partnership. The word doesn't appear once in TFA. Highly disappointed. Seeing some of the comments here speculating about ulterior motives, I'd like to say there are probably none other than the usual (goodwill, publicity, taxes, etc.) A little known aspect of the Gates Foundation finances, their problem really isn't getting more money. Their biggest problem is spend…
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Not the OP, but I suspect it's because of Bill Gates' recent scandals involving Jeffrey Epstein. Specifically with Bill Gates spiking his wife's food with antibiotics to cover up the fact that he got an STD from a Russian prostitute.
I’d much rather have someone spike my food with antibiotics than anything else.
Is 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.
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> but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's. By offering it for "free" as part of the OS. Which they could only do because they never intended to pay the developers who wrote it. In a classic Microsoft move they fucked over their competition, their partners and the entire ecosystem for well over a decade.
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.
Netscape 4.x crashed every 20 minutes. Mozilla (before Firefox) was barely usable. Chrome was no where to be seen yet.
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He spent most of that effort undermining proven solutions and propping up his own investments which have a poor record so this is not out of character.
Let's also not forget his wife divorcing him over his Epstein partying.
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Wasnt his only connection fcking a legal Russian teen and getting STDs from that? (And consequently getting blackmailed for that) While he's a shit person for that (taking advantage of sexual trafficking victims is despicable), I'm not sure I'd be comfortable to use that term - but maybe I'm just not informed enough?
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Ed Zitron is a terrible source, he is so staunchly anti AI that he is effectively blind. Once in a while he'll be right by pure chance, but I wouldn't rely on any of it.
Eh, this is an ad-hominem. Ed being anti-AI does not adress the validity of his arguments. I think he misses the mark when he insists on AI being useless. It is useful, although far from what the people hyping AI claim. But when he delves in the numbers, his arguments are very solid (and I am still to see someone counter him on that).