Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by StreamBright on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:02PM
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Wikipedia almost always classify every billionaire as philanthropist for no good reason. The only exception is Bill Gates who is trying to make this world a better place.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by sah2ed on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:16PM
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> The only exception is Bill Gates who is trying to make this world a better place.
Bill Gates certainly isn't the first to play the philanthropy card after a ruthless spell in business. There was John Rockefeller before him.
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by randyrand on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:21PM
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Honestly, I feel like if you're a billionaire its hard to not be a philanthropist.
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by Ascetik on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:17PM
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>The only exception is Bill Gates who is trying to make this world a better place.
I hardly call being a eugenicist "making the world a better place". The Nazis tried it too. They also thought they were "trying to make the world a better place". Bill Gates is a notorius eugenicist.
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by StreamBright on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:05PM
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I was referring to:
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Mal...
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by ryanburk on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:23PM
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is there any source on this?
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by majewsky on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:05PM
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In other words, you couldn't find a trustworthy source and therefore want to have us do the work for you?
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by Ascetik on Friday July 28, 2017 @05:38PM
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Are you kidding me? Did you see how many articles there are in that search result? Over 30 at the very least. What I was implying by giving the link was, there is overwhelming evidence, not that I'm lazy, but that people who ask "for a source" are often too damn lazy to even type into a search engine. I might as well have sent a LMGTFY link. I would expect a little more intellectual effort out of ycombinator readers, but I suppose that's how it goes these days. Everyone wants a hand out.
Isn't this site basically run by programmers? Ya'll can't type into a search engine though? I mean really?
Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person
by majewsky on Saturday July 29, 2017 @02:18AM
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Of course there are articles. Of course I could read them. But I could not judge them since I'm not knowledgeable in the subject. For example, I don't know the affiliations of the sources involved, so I cannot judge if they just want to throw some shit at Gates over a decades-long personal feud or something.