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The fact that someone of his ability can take an intern's wages to do this, and for that long, shows the incredible altruism in tech.
by another-dave 9y ago
The fact that someone of his ability can take an intern's wages to do this, and for that long, shows the incredible altruism in tech.
- wiz21c 9y agoThat shows his own personal altruism. I'm afraid that in tech, like in any other domain, altruism in gifted people is something rare (just because altruism is rare plus being gifted is rare). Now, everybody is doing his share, most of us are a bit altruist and a bit gifted in a way or in another. It's a question of scale.
- LolWolf 9y agoI'd argue that P(altruism | largely gifted) > P(altruism), but that being said, I completely agree with your statement. It's still a minimal amount of people in general (and with some good economic reasons, too).
- gilrain 9y agoThe broad altruism in tech that has allowed this situation, and which still underfunds the projects' modest needs? Yes, astonishing generosity.
- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoIt's almost like the "I got mine, buzz off" attitude is prevalent in not just the cartoon caricatures of <insert opposing political team here> but is prevalent in society as a whole.
- mmirate 9y agoEven further, it's almost like that attitude is the Nash equilibrium of human life. (And if it is, then we cannot expect rational people to deviate from it without significant imposition of force upon them.)
- another-dave 9y agoI meant of Koch in this case — the fact that he's getting a raw deal surely even more so emphasises his generosity, rather than undermining it.
- Bartweiss 9y agoFrom the article, we get "while the U.S. spends more than $50 billion per year on spying and intelligence, pennies go to Internet security". It is wild to me that US intelligence is sincerely scared of their sources "going dark". I've never gotten over just how asymmetric the conflict is, and how much first-class privacy software gets written for little or no money.