2 Apr
2012
2 Apr
'12
6:41 p.m.
On 02/04/12 8:29 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 04/02/2012 07:38 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
The side benefit is reputation laundering. But I don't think guilt or a
conscience was anything he was burdened with, or he'd never have got
where he is.
Very true; as this isn't a merit-based society. He was a damn good
programmer "back in the day", though; pity he didn't stick to that.
Yep. He would have done society a world of good, relatively speaking, if
he'd rotted in a cubicle.
--Toby
>> I wonder how much progress Bill Gates has made
on the mathematical
>> problem he pointed out in his book, of factoring very large prime
>> numbers.
>
> The only large numbers he is interested in are dollars.
And of course in donating an extremely large portion of those dollars to
good causes.
http://www.moneyhowmuch.com/2010/05/if-you-had-bill-gates-money-how-much-of…
including $10 Billion over 10 years for vaccines
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/29/us-davos-vaccines-idUSTRE60S3K420…
Guilt is a difficult thing to deal with, but it's easily assuaged when
you've got that much money.
-Dave