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whose career ? Name one.
by BrainInAJar 10y ago
whose career ? Name one.
- Shoop 10y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
- BrainInAJar 10y agoStill has a job, just not the same job. Same can't be said for Adria.
- dsfyu404ed 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott
- BrainInAJar 10y agoDude continuously harasses a woman well after being told to stop, then having his account suspended. That's not "I said the wrong thing", that's criminal harassment.
- jackmott 10y agoScott Aaronson had some pretty tough times for doing absolutely nothing.
- BrainInAJar 10y agoThen he got a promotion, and now leads an institute at UT
- j_s 10y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419071 I don't have more time to figure out the guy's name but his HN username is mr-hank: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
- beevai142 10y agoRichards got fired and got loads of death threats and racist messages, because of a single tweet. The guy got off easier with just being fired.
- busterarm 10y agoI didn't know that this was a competition. Also someone else getting worse makes this okay? Two wrongs make it right?
- BrainInAJar 10y agoThe dudebros also got new jobs. Richards did not.
- imron 10y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-hung-out-to-dry-interview-mary-collins https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-hun...
- BrainInAJar 10y agowas reinstated, is a professor of immunology at the same university.
- imron 10y agoDo you have a source for that? All I can find (from Wikipedia) is that he was forced to resign from three positions he held, and that he was reappointed to one. There's another article from a news source I don't particularly trust saying he was offered a new position in Japan. Either way, even if he's doing fine now it was months of upheaval and a dedicated witch-hunt over comments that were taken completely out of context.
- idanoeman 10y agoIf you have to ask this question, I'd say you're either not paying attention or being willfully ignorant of the tightrope-walking act men have to perform these days to not get lynched by internet mobs.