Current Events > Mark Zuckerberg vs. The Winklevoss Twins

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You are forced to spend 8 hours a day for a year with either Mark Zuckerberg or the Winklevoss Twins. At the end of the year, you will be rewarded with $10 million. If you fail to do this, you will be rewarded with $0.

Mark Zuckerberg:


Winklevoss Twins:



Who do you choose?
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idk who the twins are and mark zuckerberg seems okay enough so him


wait im thinking of jessie eisenberg
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Zuckerberg. Those guys look like the biggest tools.
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

idk who the twins are and mark zuckerberg seems okay enough so him

The original founders of facebook (originally called ConnectU) before they brought on Mark Zuckerberg to help them write the code. Zuckerberg ended up lying and telling them that he was working on their project, but in reality he just copied it and launched his own competing version without telling them. That's why he had to end up giving them $60 million or something.


foreveraIone posted...

Zuckerberg. Those guys look like the biggest tools.

They do look like tools, but Zuckerberg has actually proven himself to be one of the biggest ones ever.
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I'll take the friendlier looking tool over the ones that look like Donald Trump jr.
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you know what, they look like max head room so ill go with the twins
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I'll spend 8 hours with one tool over 8 hours with two.
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stone posted...

I'll spend 8 hours with one tool over 8 hours with two.

Hmm that is an interesting way of thinking of it
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Remember, Zuckerberg fetishizes Asian women and married one because of this fetish.
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The Social Network is a fantastic movie btw. Those who don't know who the Winklevoss twins are and their relationship to Zuckerberg definitely need to watch.

Sativa_Rose posted...

The original founders of facebook (originally called ConnectU) before they brought on Mark Zuckerberg to help them write the code. Zuckerberg ended up lying and telling them that he was working on their project, but in reality he just copied it and launched his own competing version without telling them. That's why he had to end up giving them $60 million or something.

isn't their similar controversies with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? It seems a sad and unfortunate trend when these huge billionaire CEOs all basically stole code unethically and illegally and turned it into giant corporations.
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darkphoenix181 posted...

Sativa_Rose posted...

The original founders of facebook (originally called ConnectU) before they brought on Mark Zuckerberg to help them write the code. Zuckerberg ended up lying and telling them that he was working on their project, but in reality he just copied it and launched his own competing version without telling them. That's why he had to end up giving them $60 million or something.

isn't their similar controversies with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? It seems a sad and unfortunate trend when these huge billionaire CEOs all basically stole code unethically and illegally and turned it into giant corporations.

Not really. Gates never stole anything. The issue is that he payed only 50,000 dollars for the OS that made him a billionaire. But the guy who made the OS plagiarized much of it from a Norwegian American programmer, so who cares anyway.
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Ammonitida posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

Sativa_Rose posted...

The original founders of facebook (originally called ConnectU) before they brought on Mark Zuckerberg to help them write the code. Zuckerberg ended up lying and telling them that he was working on their project, but in reality he just copied it and launched his own competing version without telling them. That's why he had to end up giving them $60 million or something.

isn't their similar controversies with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? It seems a sad and unfortunate trend when these huge billionaire CEOs all basically stole code unethically and illegally and turned it into giant corporations.

Not really. Gates never stole anything. The issue is that he payed only 50,000 dollars for the OS that made him a billionaire. But the guy who made the OS plagiarized much of it from a Norwegian American programmer, so who cares anyway.

I recall a story of an original programmer who took them to court and he type in something and it spit back things proving it was his code that Microsoft had no idea was in the code
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if facebook was your idea, you would've invented facebook
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-RetroActive- posted...

if facebook was your idea, you would've invented facebook

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I couldn't spend a second with Zuckerberg without wanting to punch his asshole face.

XT3M3 posted...

-RetroActive- posted...

if facebook was your idea, you would've invented facebook

well I was like 11 when they made it so I wasn't really thinking on that level at the time
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darkphoenix181 posted...

Ammonitida posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

Sativa_Rose posted...

The original founders of facebook (originally called ConnectU) before they brought on Mark Zuckerberg to help them write the code. Zuckerberg ended up lying and telling them that he was working on their project, but in reality he just copied it and launched his own competing version without telling them. That's why he had to end up giving them $60 million or something.

isn't their similar controversies with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? It seems a sad and unfortunate trend when these huge billionaire CEOs all basically stole code unethically and illegally and turned it into giant corporations.

Not really. Gates never stole anything. The issue is that he payed only 50,000 dollars for the OS that made him a billionaire. But the guy who made the OS plagiarized much of it from a Norwegian American programmer, so who cares anyway.

I recall a story of an original programmer who took them to court and he type in something and it spit back things proving it was his code that Microsoft had no idea was in the code

Never heard of that one before.
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The Twins
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Ammonitida posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

Ammonitida posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

Sativa_Rose posted...

The original founders of facebook (originally called ConnectU) before they brought on Mark Zuckerberg to help them write the code. Zuckerberg ended up lying and telling them that he was working on their project, but in reality he just copied it and launched his own competing version without telling them. That's why he had to end up giving them $60 million or something.

isn't their similar controversies with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? It seems a sad and unfortunate trend when these huge billionaire CEOs all basically stole code unethically and illegally and turned it into giant corporations.

Not really. Gates never stole anything. The issue is that he payed only 50,000 dollars for the OS that made him a billionaire. But the guy who made the OS plagiarized much of it from a Norwegian American programmer, so who cares anyway.

I recall a story of an original programmer who took them to court and he type in something and it spit back things proving it was his code that Microsoft had no idea was in the code

Never heard of that one before.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/100000-prize-if-you-can-find-the-secret-command-in-dos

there is contest to find it

The conclusion? Still no sign of copying of source code. And no evidence to support a long-running rumor that there is a secret command in MS-DOS that can be called to print out a copyright notice in Gary Kildall’s name.

However, Zeidman did find that at least 22 system calls, the commands used to request an action, like sending text to a printer or reading from a hard disk, had the same function number and function. That, he says, might have meant that Kildall “might have had a copyright claim for the system calls that it could have litigated against Microsoft. On the other hand, there is a good chance Microsoft could have beaten such litigation by claiming it was a ‘fair use.’ ”

Meanwhile, Zeidman has had a lot of pushback since his original article was published, in part because it turned out he had an open consulting contract with Microsoft at the time. (He reports that it was an old and inactive contract and he has since severed all ties.) So he’s putting up $200,000 in prize money, $100,000 for anyone who can use “accepted forensic techniques” to prove the copying, and another $100,000 for anyone who can find that secret Kildall copyright function.

https://www.wired.com/2012/08/ms-dos-examined-for-thef/
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