27 year old creator of Ethereum is a billionaire

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where did i rate cacs?

ducking reality is not fixing shyt. look at literacy rates and graduation rates. getting a grant like he got is possible for anyone that puts forth the same amount of effort.

you know how people get grants right? present proof of concept or plan, whatever to demonstrate you meet the requirements for a particular grant. they have grant writing workshops you can source for guidance. all this information is free and out there... IF YOU LOOK FOR IT.

and yes he literally got that grant for being smart that was his merit. you made it about race :pachaha:

"black kids are lazy dummies "is your projection. we don't care enough about education was my actual statement. everything else is inferred.

be triggered or face reality, dancing around it is not changing shyt.

how many young brehs do you know that have hobbies in the education field?



I aint reading all that shyt. You not me said "our youth are not focused on education at alllllllll" not me.
As if all white kids are focused and all black kids aint. I was gonna read more but I can tell by the way you phrase shyt, you a Eurocac :camby:
 

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I aint reading all that shyt. You not me said "our youth are not focused on education at alllllllll" not me.
As if all white kids are focused and all black kids aint. I was gonna read more but I can tell by the way you phrase shyt, you a Eurocac :camby:
say less

:pachaha:

stew in bitterness because of factual statements brehs

now i'm a eurocac :bryan:

BLACK YOUTH DON'T CARE ABOUT EDUCATION. if this offends you then you not based in reality.
 
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Just like when Bill Gates was used as a benchmark of success. Just work hard.

Never mentioned all of the programs and elite schools that offered their labs to him.
Yes! This one blew my mind when Malcom Gladwell explained it in his book “Outliers”. Bill was smart and put that programming work as an adolescent , no doubt about it but he had early access to computers when 99.8% of people in the United States did not.
 
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say less

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stew in bitterness because of factual statements brehs

now i'm a eurocac :bryan:

BLACK YOUTH DON'T CARE ABOUT EDUCATION. if this offends you then you not based in reality.


Ahh your a Canadian, makes sense. Keep making them white supremacist blanket talking points and acting like a maniacal comic book villain. I don’t have the time or energy :hubie:
 

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Ahh your a Canadian, makes sense. Keep making them white supremacist blanket talking points and acting like a maniacal comic book villain. I don’t have the time or energy :hubie:
you one of them dudes that lets his emotions reign supreme and tries to reign in Black people by questioning their Blackness when they speak on reality. all because you heard some shyt that offends you.. not because it isn't true but because it actually is. nothing supremacist here. tuck your feelings in.
 

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you one of them dudes that lets his emotions reign supreme and tries to reign in Black people by questioning their Blackness when they speak on reality. all because you heard some shyt that offends you.. not because it isn't true but because it actually is. nothing supremacist here. tuck your feelings in.

Nah I’m one of those dudes who don’t go back and forth online with cacs who think they are smarter than everyone else. It’s a an exercise in futility. Enjoy your day
 

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The logical fallacy you are engaged in is circular reasoning. We're telling you that these people got to their positions in life due to very specific advantages they had. You're suggesting, "That's bullshyt, none of you could have done that." And when we ask you how you know that, you reply, "Cause you didn't!" Thereby avoiding the entire question of whether or not specific advantages put people in their position and circling right back to your starting assumption without logically defending it at all.

Ok to illustrate my very simple point to you further.

Answer this question: If you could fly, would you?

What your saying is basically like saying you could fly but you need very specific conditions, wind direction, sunlight, mental preparation etc, etc

You keep adding silly qualifications onto something that some people just get intuitively and do. These people would be successful no matter what. Bill Gates got it. You didn’t. It’s really that simple
 

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shyt so motivating brehs. I'm trying to learn how to build some dapps so I can get some of this crypto money.

Trying to retire my entire family to somewhere out in Africa.
 

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you had arthur hayes but you know how it goes when we play by their rules and win...

The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin Billionaire Arthur Hayes

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Holy shyt, I went to Wharton with this dude. Dude graduated in my class
 

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Holy shyt, I went to Wharton with this dude. Dude graduated in my class
:ohhh: wtf is this article

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all of us arguing in circles about a hypothetical breh

check this out

That was hardly an aberration. Barclays, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, ING, Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Standard Chartered have all paid fines for conduct that has included money laundering, sanctions violations, and massive tax fraud. In the world of high finance, charging corporate officers in their individual capacity is rare. “You can Google ‘JPMorgan’ and ‘fraud’ and look at what comes up,” Hartej Singh Sawhney suggested. “Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs—they have pleaded guilty to fraud. And yet none of their sentences or fines are nearly as bad as what we’re looking at for Arthur.”

^^ this deserves a thread tbh
 

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Let’s now turn to the history of Bill Gates. His story is almost as well known as the Beatles’. Brilliant, young math whiz discovers computer programming. Drops out of Harvard. Starts a little computer company called Microsoft with his friends. Through sheer brilliance and ambition and guts builds it into the giant of the software world. That’s the broad outline. Let’s dig a little bit deeper. Gates’s father was a wealthy lawyer in Seattle, and his mother was the daughter of a well-to-do banker. As a child Bill was precocious and easily bored by his studies. So his parents took him out of public school and, at the beginning of seventh grade, sent him to Lakeside, a private school that catered to Seattle’s elite families. Midway through Gates’s second year at Lakeside, the school started a computer club. “The Mothers’ Club at school did a rummage sale every year, and there was always the question of what the money would go to,” Gates remembers. “Some went to the summer program, where inner-city kids would come up to the campus. Some of it would go for teachers. That year, they put three thousand dollars into a computer terminal down in this funny little room that we subsequently took control of. It was kind of an amazing thing.” It was an “amazing thing,” of course, because this was 1968. Most colleges didn’t have computer clubs in the 1960s. Even more remarkable was the kind of computer Lakeside bought. The school didn’t have its students learn programming by the laborious computer-card system, like virtually everyone else was doing in the 1960s. Instead, Lakeside installed what was called an ASR-33 Teletype, which was a time-sharing terminal with a direct link to a mainframe computer in downtown Seattle. “The whole idea of timesharing only got invented in nineteen sixty-five,” Gates continued. “Someone was pretty forward-looking.” Bill Joy got an extraordinary, early opportunity to learn programming on a time-share system as a freshman in college, in 1971. Bill Gates got to do real-time programming as an eighth grader in 1968. From that moment forward, Gates lived in the computer room. He and a number of others began to teach themselves how to use this strange new device. Buying time on the mainframe computer the ASR was hooked up to was, of course, expensive—even for a wealthy institution like Lakeside—and it wasn’t long before the $3,000 put up by the Mothers’ Club ran out. The parents raised more money. The students spent it. Then a group of programmers at the University of Washington formed an outfit called Computer Center Corporation (or C-Cubed), which leased computer time to local companies. As luck would have it, one of the founders of the firm— Monique Rona—had a son at Lakeside, a year ahead of Gates. Would the Lakeside computer club, Rona wondered, like to test out the company’s software programs on the weekends in exchange for free programming time? Absolutely! After school, Gates took the bus to the C-Cubed offices and programmed long into the evening. C-Cubed eventually went bankrupt, so Gates and his friends began hanging around the computer center at the University of Washington. Before long, they latched onto an outfit called ISI (Information Sciences Inc.), which agreed to let them have free computer time in exchange for working on a piece of software that could be used to automate company payrolls. In one seven-month period in 1971, Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week. “It was my obsession,” Gates says of his early high school years. “I skipped athletics. I went up there at night. We were programming on weekends. It would be a rare week that we wouldn’t get twenty or thirty hours in. There was a period where Paul Allen and I got in trouble for stealing a bunch of passwords and crashing the system. We got kicked out. I didn’t get to use the computer the whole summer. This is when I was fifteen and sixteen. Then I found out Paul had found a computer that was free at the University of Washington. They had these machines in the medical center and the physics department. They were on a twenty-four-hour schedule, but with this big slack period, so that between three and six in the morning they never scheduled anything.” Gates laughed. “I’d leave at night, after my bedtime. I could walk up to the University of Washington from my house. Or I’d take the bus. That’s why I’m always so generous to the University of Washington, because they let me steal so much computer time.” (Years later, Gates’s mother said, “We always wondered why it was so hard for him to get up in the morning.”) One of the founders of ISI, Bud Pembroke, then got a call from the technology company TRW, which had just signed a contract to set up a computer system at the huge Bonneville Power station in southern Washington State. TRW desperately needed programmers familiar with the particular software the power station used. In these early days of the computer revolution, programmers with that kind of specialized experience were hard to find. But Pembroke knew exactly whom to call: those high school kids from Lakeside who had been running up thousands of hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe. Gates was now in his senior year, and somehow he managed to convince his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project. There he spent the spring writing code, supervised by a man named John Norton, who Gates says taught him as much about programming as almost anyone he’d ever met. Those five years, from eighth grade through the end of high school, were Bill Gates’s Hamburg, and by any measure, he was presented with an even more extraordinary series of opportunities than Bill Joy. Opportunity number one was that Gates got sent to Lakeside. How many high schools in the world had access to a time-sharing terminal in 1968? Opportunity number two was that the mothers of Lakeside had enough money to pay for the school’s computer fees. Number three was that, when that money ran out, one of the parents happened to work at C-Cubed, which happened to need someone to check its code on the weekends, and which also happened not to care if weekends turned into weeknights. Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just happened to need someone to work on its payroll software. Number five was that Gates happened to live within walking distance of the University of Washington. Number six was that the university happened to have free computer time between three and six in the morning. Number seven was that TRW happened to call Bud Pembroke. Number eight was that the best programmers Pembroke knew for that particular problem happened to be two high school kids. And number nine was that Lakeside was willing to let those kids spend their spring term miles away, writing code. And what did virtually all of those opportunities have in common? They gave Bill Gates extra time to practice. By the time Gates dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year to try his hand at his own software company, he’d been programming practically nonstop for seven consecutive years. He was way past ten thousand hours. How many teenagers in the world had the kind of experience Gates had? “If there were fifty in the world, I’d be stunned,” he says. “There was C-Cubed and the payroll stuff we did, then TRW—all those things came together. I had a better exposure to software development at a young age than I think anyone did in that period of time, and all because of an incredibly lucky series of events.”

in gates netflix doc review
this wired journalist is not really rocking with that 10,000 + luck thing
either thinks gates was an alien
'Inside Bill's Brain' Calls BS on Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Theory

y'all be the judge
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in gates netflix doc review
this wired journalist is not really rocking with that 10,000 + luck thing
either thinks gates was an alien
'Inside Bill's Brain' Calls BS on Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Theory

y'all be the judge
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Gates says that Gladwell was correct, and if the Wired guy thinks Gates is a genius then how can he claim he's right and Gates is wrong? :sas2:


I don't understand the journalist's argument here. It seems to be, "Bill Gates is a genius and therefore THAT has to explain why he created Microsoft." That's a poor argument, first of all because it's merely correlation (nothing in the article shows how Gates employed genius to build the company), and second of all because there's plenty of people who fit the "genius" mode depicted in the Wired article but who obviously never become Bill Gates.

And he's overrelying on Gladwell's 10,000 hour figure. Gladwell's argument wasn't that Gates got 10,000 hours of programming experience and then - boom, Microsoft happens. His argument was that Gates got 10,000 hours of programming experience at the exact right time and place and age in a way that no one else was getting at the time and had the intellect to take advantage of that. Gates was a smart guy, but there were 10,000+ people in America who were just as smart as Gates. However, there were probably less than 100 sixth-graders in the entire country in 1968 who had rich corporate parents who got him computer access at an elite private school so he could fukk around with programs almost daily from the age of 13. I'd be almost certain that there were ZERO black kids in the entire country getting that level of computer programming tutelage. fukk, I went to school in the 1990s and I didn't get the chance to do that shyt until 9th grade.

Gates's intelligence is somewhat rare, but his opportunities were much rarer.

It's ironic that Wired's big example is Gates acing the test to get into an exclusive private school that his parents were pushing him to go to. That does demonstrate that he was highly intelligent in 6th grade (which neither Gladwell nor me would ever deny), and also that he had parents who were setting him up with every opportunity possible from a young age. Doesn't even begin to disprove the notion that those opportunities were vital to starting microsoft.



I'm also annoyed at Wired's focus on Gates's charity work as an example of his supposed intellect. As I've written about a lot here, those of us who work in the international development/health/education communities have a lot of problems with Gates's work. Development experts think his development interventions are crap. Education experts think his education interventions are crap. Health experts think his health interventions are crap. I've dropped a bunch of links on why that is, and the feelings are almost universal among the people I know, and strongest among the ones I trust the most. Gates does charity like someone who is very highly embedded in technology and corporate culture, and who has a very high opinion of his own understanding, but who has never taken the time to fully understand the fields he is engaging in and thus makes massive errors that substantially reduce the positive impact of his work.

Which, to me, goes to show that as critical as his early exposure to programming was to his ability to end up dominating the computer industry, his late entrance into the health/education/development sectors and well-developed arrogance before he entered them has hamstringed his ability to truly understand those fields.
 
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