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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", sykesix asked the members: "What do you do if you arrive early at movie besides go to the snack bar?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: ajm101 ✶  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Popular Billionaires
Date: 04/03/25 6:38 PM
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Depending on your career you may have already seen this talk by Bryan Cantrell, formerly of Sun Microsystems and then of Oracle. I may have even posted it here or one of the former boards at some point

He infamously gave the advice, "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison" YouTube: LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos (USENIX) which might be the funniest few minutes of content ever produce about Ellison and Oracle. I am exercising a lot of self-restraint to not block quote large portions of the talk here, but encourage watching from 35:00-39:50 (maybe with headphones and away from tender ears). The rest is great if you are a fan of Solar, OpenSolaris, or Illuminos and the history and politics of the projects, but I realize that is a more limited audience.

With greater familiarity with the public, I think it would be a neck and neck race to the bottom with Ellison and one other strong contender.
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This community has written 22,499 posts about Berkshire Hathaway. The article-length ones it recommended most:
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