You mean mentioning someone's qualifications in order to inform a conversation, like you just did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32781073 https://ne

You mean mentioning someone's qualifications in order to inform a conversation, like you just did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32781073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32781073? Jennifer Widom has a PhD in computer science from Cornell, btw. I don't see how they are comparable in any way.