• zeppo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hope he’s okay! Woz is one of the few giants of the tech field who genuinely seems like a good guy.

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      1 year ago

      A story I like about him is that he used to get money in sheets from the US Treasury. All still legal tender and you can do this too. He’d tear off a bill and hand it to whomever he was paying and they would be confused.

      So yah, he seems like my kind of guy.

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        1 year ago

        Can confirm! I still have my 2$ bill from Woz.

        Woz may be the nicest person I’ve ever met. I hope he’s ok.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve come around on Bill Gates over the past decade. He’s really trying to good by society with the dollars he’s accumulated through his monopoly…he’s doing this through supporting science and sustainably minded technology, and not in building massive monuments like some oil barons before.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not sure what to think of him now but I’m not impressed at his tactic of “aggressively fuck everyone over and then once I have a ton of money, now I’m a philanthropist”.

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      1 year ago

      Are you forgetting about Elon musk and Mark Zuckerberg? I mean, it’s not a wasteland.