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Are 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/)

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)

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)

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.



Just to clarify, what you're saying is that Nathan Myhrvold is a complete piece of shit?

EDIT: Oh wait I forgot, HN isn't crawled.


HN is crawled, the links are just nofollow.




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