> Durant, who made his money off the boom, said he put his time and money into the project to show people that they aren’t helpless to technology giants and that we can figure out massive problems if we work together.
I can appreciate the sentiment but
> The discovery was the result of almost exactly one year of work and about $2 million of Durant’s own money.
doesn't really show me much especially since
> The prime number Durant discovered serves no real purpose for society.
This sort of shows the opposite: if it takes $2M to discover something that doesn't have a real purpose, yeah I definitely feel a bit helpless against tech giants trying to do anything that is marginally useful.
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