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Bill Gates gives Ted talk proposing new global team to quickly prevent epidemics

4 points by MilnerRoute 5y ago

1970-01-01 5y ago
Why is HN regurgitating from Slashdot? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=slashdot.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=slashdot.org
- Minor49er 5y ago
  The people submitting the stories are probably also Slashdot readers who found them to be interesting and wanted to share them here as well
  - 1970-01-01 5y ago
    Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - MilnerRoute 5y ago
      In this case that "original source" was audio-only -- a 15-minute video. I thought there was something unique and useful in the typed-out summation of the whole 15 minutes.
McLaren_Ferrari 5y ago
Bill Gates should resign, re-name and re-brand the foundation and bring in a trustee who can sell this stuff to the public. It has to be a guy who can build a cult of personality around him. The stuff that the Gates Foundation is doing is unprecedented but they should separate the part where Gates deploys his own money for health (which he should oversee), and the part where political change on a global basis has to be implemented such as the one proposed in this video. "The GERM team would work under the WHO" . Okay good luck trying to convince people to accept that, and especially with Gates' subzero stage presence and charisma. All of the non-grant type stuff should be sold to the public by a charismatic guy with a huge cult of personality around him, a skilled politician because this is essentially politics . It's an arms race of cults out there, nice initiatives are getting eaten alive by those who scream and indoctrinate people the most, hence nice initiatives should stop playing nice and start going on the attack.
sharken 5y ago
At the rate of about one epidemic every hundred years or so, time and money would be better spent coming up with solutions for the environment. Cement with less of a CO2 footprint would be one example. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844

4 points by MilnerRoute 5y ago

1970-01-01 5y ago

Why is HN regurgitating from Slashdot? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=slashdot.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=slashdot.org

Minor49er 5y ago
The people submitting the stories are probably also Slashdot readers who found them to be interesting and wanted to share them here as well
- 1970-01-01 5y ago
  Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - MilnerRoute 5y ago
    In this case that "original source" was audio-only -- a 15-minute video. I thought there was something unique and useful in the typed-out summation of the whole 15 minutes.

McLaren_Ferrari 5y ago

Bill Gates should resign, re-name and re-brand the foundation and bring in a trustee who can sell this stuff to the public. It has to be a guy who can build a cult of personality around him. The stuff that the Gates Foundation is doing is unprecedented but they should separate the part where Gates deploys his own money for health (which he should oversee), and the part where political change on a global basis has to be implemented such as the one proposed in this video. "The GERM team would work under the WHO" . Okay good luck trying to convince people to accept that, and especially with Gates' subzero stage presence and charisma. All of the non-grant type stuff should be sold to the public by a charismatic guy with a huge cult of personality around him, a skilled politician because this is essentially politics . It's an arms race of cults out there, nice initiatives are getting eaten alive by those who scream and indoctrinate people the most, hence nice initiatives should stop playing nice and start going on the attack.

sharken 5y ago

At the rate of about one epidemic every hundred years or so, time and money would be better spent coming up with solutions for the environment. Cement with less of a CO2 footprint would be one example. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844