Let’s savor this one more time: Bill Gates walked into the meeting “riding high” because he acquired patents for malaria treatments. Reality beats satire every time.
Who was "him" that Bill says was fucked?
Presumably whoever was in charge of .NET? Weird writing around that.
The podcast source transcript has more context. Apparently "him" was whoever was in charge of MSBNx, an unrelated, Bayesian Network thing, which Bill Gates was also obsessed with.
That sounds really evil, esp. if you already have low expectations and it's not like I'm going to defend ol'Bill, but...
Do we know what he used the patents for?
Acquiring patent sounds like you want to use it as a gold mine by manufacturing the product for "best" price, which is pretty heinous, especially when it's in conflict with saving lives. But in principle it could be the opposite. One could, entirely for altruistic reasons acquire a patent from someone with the intent to make the cure more affordable.
I mean, I don't like Bill but let's be honest, he's no RFK Jr.
Considering they pressured the AstraZenica vaccine to not be open source I am biased against believing it was alturism.
Fair point, I don't know the details of Bill Gates philanthropy
That was really a fantastic read!
If someone around you looks down on Indian developers, you can remind them that Windows became remotely usable thanks to AI… That is, “Actually Indians.”
Is that statement supposed to help Indians?
I think it's playing on the joke that many ai companies will just lie about the ai and contract the work to actual Indians
Powershell (and nushell) is great. The concept of piping and manipulating objects instead of text is so comfortable. Having types is also great.
Administrating Windows would be a nightmare without it.
If only I didn't need to create an account to read this post.
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