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Relatedly, Myhrvold did actually make a really genuinely huge contribution to cuisine with his gigantic ubercookbook Modernist Cuisine, and so it makes me sad t
by ecuzzillo 15y ago
Relatedly, Myhrvold did actually make a really genuinely huge contribution to cuisine with his gigantic ubercookbook Modernist Cuisine, and so it makes me sad that he turns out to be a bloodsucking asshole by trade.
- tptacek 15y agoDidn't Myrhrvold have a spectacular amount of money prior to founding IV? "Complete T-Rex skeletons in my foyer" money? I don't like IV, but I feel like Myrhrvold probably does believe in what he's doing.
- georgemcbay 15y agoHe may actually believe he's doing the world a great service, but surely you don't believe that just because someone is fantastically wealthy relative to the average person means they automatically stop doing things for the money? At some point it becomes more like watching your Hacker News karma go up than it has to do with having a real impact in your life, but that doesn't mean the wealthy stop caring about it. In other words... well, sure Myrhvold is wealthy... but he's not Helú, Gates or Buffet wealthy. He's just a chump compared to those guys.
- ecuzzillo 15y agoYes, he was billionaire-ish from Microsoft, and I imagine he does believe in what he's doing, so I guess he's not intentionally a bloodsucking asshole, but I don't know that that makes it that much better.
- georgemcbay 15y agoHe's done a lot of great things in software as well, but that doesn't change the fact that his stance on patents is wrong and economically destructive.