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When you talk about IV, use the name Nathan Myhrvold. Hell, they have a picture of him right there. One of the best measures we have against Mr. Myhrvold -- gi
by chasing 13y ago
When you talk about IV, use the name Nathan Myhrvold. Hell, they have a picture of him right there.
One of the best measures we have against Mr. Myhrvold -- given that he seems interested in portraying himself as a public genius of some sort -- is to drag his name through the mud over this. He's not the guy who studied with Stephen Hawking. He's not the guy who wrote the molecular gastronomy tome. He's the very, very rich guy who wants to drag down the entire tech industry to get even richer.
- dyscrete 13y agoSome people have no shame.
- jonlucc 13y agoJust for clarification, is it a different guy entirely, or is he just exposing a much darker side?
- chasing 13y agoSame guy. He likes to turn up in places like the recent Freakonomics book and the Colbert Report to show off his brilliance. But his actual day job is this nonsense.
- midas007 13y agoSo a glorified crowbar-wielding thug that says: "Pay your protection fees or else we're heading to the kangaroo courts of East Texas."
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- Steko 13y agoNathan Myhrvold is a hero, bolding hacking the legal system and showing where it's vulnerabilities are so Congress can step in an-- oh who am I kidding he's pretty much the worst. Nathan a proper astroturfing is going to cost you 10% of your revenue, I'm willing to edit this comment in your favor if you want to do this the easy way.
- primitivesuave 13y agoAre you sure we're talking about the same Nathan Myhrvold? Because the Nathan Myhrvold that I know is often referred to as a visionary technology and business leader. (http://www.nathanmyhrvold.com/ http://www.nathanmyhrvold.com/) Certainly not the Nathan Myhrvold who is a professional jack-of-all-trades. After leaving Microsoft in 1999, he's been a world barbecue champion, a wildlife photographer, a chef, a contributor to SETI, and a volcano explorer. (http://www.ted.com/speakers/nathan_myhrvold http://www.ted.com/speakers/nathan_myhrvold) You can't possibly be talking about the Nathan Myhrvold who proposed that we pump sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere from helium balloons to solve global warming, despite experts saying that it would reverse all the work we've done in the last 30 years to get sulfur dioxide out of the atmosphere. (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/20/fzgps.01.html http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/20/fzgps.01.html) Although Google would make an industry outsider think differently, it's pretty much common knowledge within the tech industry that the guy is a complete piece of shit.
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- archagon 13y agoI just wish his molecular gastronomy tome wasn't so awesome, so that I didn't have so much cognitive dissonance about the guy.