> This guy who invents awesome working chemicals that are tragically bad for people on a worldwide scale Cars and fridges bad, is pretty much HN at it's core.

> This guy who invents awesome working chemicals that are tragically bad for people on a worldwide scale Cars and fridges bad, is pretty much HN at it's core. These saved millions, probably billions of lives (depending on how you measure it) Thomas Midgley Jr work making these more efficient means he is an amazing human being that helped humanity saving many many lives. I guess people need something to justify pushing code around that does nothing?