Ask HN: Were Newton alive today, for which big tech co would he have worked?

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For those of you thinking "He would have gone solo" recall that he did work for the Mint. So he was not against selling out. So, Newtown 2025, to whom would he have sold out?

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I took a European History class. Here's what I have in my notes.

Keppler friendly; Galileo charismatic and popular with "wicked" sense of sarcasm; Newton unpopular as lecturer at Cambridge and possessive of his discoveries (end of his life trying to convict Liebniz of plagiarism)... Newton spent more of his life doing numerological bible investigations than the law of gravity (which he finished at age 23).

So... MyPillow?

Probably Apple—he’d be drawn to the logo, get hit on the head by it, and try to explain gravity all over again just trying to understand their Terms & Conditions.

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