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This is an incredibly lame piece. The best I can find to say for it is that he spelt Myhrvold's name right. Otherwise it is crummy rant. He couldn't even do
by petegrif 15y ago
This is an incredibly lame piece. The best I can find to say for it is that he spelt Myhrvold's name right. Otherwise it is crummy rant. He couldn't even do research a 4th grader would find simple - look up his target in Wikipedia and take the trouble to read enough to find out that M is indeed smart so he doesn't have to take the word of others for it.
The first para in Wikipedia would give him a clue.
"Myhrvold attended Mirman School,[6] and began college at age 14.[7] He studied mathematics, geophysics, and space physics at UCLA (BSc, Masters). He was awarded a Hertz Foundation Fellowship for graduate study and he chose to study at Princeton University, where he earned a master's degree in mathematical economics and completed a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics by age 23. He also attended Santa Monica College. For one year, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking, studying cosmology, quantum field theory in curved space time and quantum theories of gravitation."
So if this is his level of research why on earth would anyone in their right minds who is not already a patent hater take this chump seriously?
- RockyMcNuts 15y agoYou can invent some stuff and earn some decent patents and still be a patent troll. You can be a genius and still have an anti-innovation business model. Stronger patents on every little technique you can use on the Internet, held by people like Myrhvold, aren't very likely to help hackers at startups. Those startup hackers who have real innovation that needs IP protection, don't need help from patent trolls.
- petegrif 15y agoI don't understand what, if any, point you are really making here.
- RockyMcNuts 15y ago1) The fact Myhrvold is brilliant is beside the point 2) if Kedrosky looked up Myhrvold's credentials in Wikipedia instead of hearing from people who knew him first-hand, Kedrosky would still be taking other people's word for his brilliance