Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for universal flu vaccine

Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by hsavit1 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:36AM (#16947819)

this is obscene. he deserves a prize.... for what? microsoft? ruthlessly monopolizing the market in the 90s? having a fortune?

It's so disturbing to see people bow down to the billionaire class and think that they earned their wealth through normal, good guy means.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by verylittlemeat on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:48AM (#16947874)

I think this is a fair criticism.

Gates is exceptionally rich in the purest sense of exceptional. He's been the richest person on earth almost every year for over a decade.

When you're at that level you have to wonder what is really left to do but cultivate your legacy? Gates had developed a persona in the business world that did not bode well for a positive obituary. The Gates Foundation doesn't strike me so much as admirable as logical.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by kyberias on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:35PM (#16948672)

Dude, he's been the richest person for over _two decades_ almost every year starting from year 1995.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by verylittlemeat on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:54PM (#16948757)

There were years where he wasn't #1 I just was covering my bases by not trying to oversell it and get hit with some gotcha.

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Re:Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for univer... by lifeformed on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:26PM (#16948636)

> he deserves a prize.... for what?

For the Gates Foundation?

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