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Email and ask

The email address responded with an automated message saying they are no longer checking the inbox. It directed me to submit my query at their contact for instead: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/contact/write-to-us

I submitted this message, feel free to copy the same text and submit yourself also:

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I recently became aware that the Living Computers Museum, which was created by Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder), is shutting down. As someone in the technology industry, I find that very sad! The museum was really magical. I'm wondering if the Gates Foundation can step up and save the museum from closing?

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/seattles-living-computers-muse...

Thank you for your consideration

Shana Tarbell, Chief Operating Officer: shana.tarbell@gatesfoundation.org

Kim Webber, Senior Program Officer: kim.webber@gatesfoundation.org

Jennifer Alcorn, Deputy Director, Giving Opportunities & Gates Philanthropy Partners: jennifer.alcorn@gatesfoundation.org

Amy K. Carter, Director, Community Engagement: amy.carter@gatesfoundation.org

Jillian Foote, Senior Program Officer, CEO External Engagement: jillian.foote@gatesfoundation.org

Presumably billg is reading this thread already.

> Presumably billg is reading this thread already.

I would assume he's not wasting his time with HN. He's rich enough and well-known enough that I'd think he'd be able to get superior versions of everything HN can provide.

I mean, if you have billg money, I guess you could have a couple ex-FAAMG software developers on payroll just so you could call them up at any hour of the day and have them give you uninformed hot-takes about an article you found online and just forwarded them, and need them to tell you something based on the headline without actually reading the article, but that seems a bit weird. I don't even have Snoop Dogg money to pay someone to roll joints for me though, so what do I know about having billg-levels of money.

“Hello, Phil? Yeah, doing fine, look, I need 200 takes on React, 50 of them actually having nothing to do with it, 100 that are just flames, 40 that are deeply stupid, and 10 that are at least informed and a bit insighthful, but not really that interesting or valuable. Please just jumble them up rather than sorting them by quality or usefulness, I want to have to waste a bunch of time and emotional energy finding the good ones. Great, thanks.”

So far this is not my HN experience. But there are many things one can spend time with. Reading web site might not interest all I admit.

the hn experience wouldn't be complete with only uninformed hot takes; it also requires that they argue with everything you say and then accuse you of being disingenuous

There's a better place to hear software industry insiders' take on the dec-10?

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