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1798 points jerryX | 8 comments | 30 Nov 18 05:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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CalChris ◴[30 Nov 18 06:40 UTC] No.18567228[source]▶
Regina Dugan is a former head of DARPA as well as ATAP. She has an impressive resume. Why would she do something like this? For a not particularly important patent, LED popup books? It seems bizarre.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_E._Dugan

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logifail ◴[30 Nov 18 08:17 UTC] No.18567565[source]▶
>> She has an impressive resume.

>> Why would she do something like $badthing?

Am I the only one wondering why anyone would think a person's resume should be any kind of predictor of good or bad behaviour?

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geezerjay ◴[30 Nov 18 08:36 UTC] No.18567636[source]▶
You're not the only one wondering that.

In fact, one way to get an impressive resume is to railroad others and use people as stepping stones to your way to the top.

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markdown ◴[30 Nov 18 09:04 UTC] No.18567755[source]▶
Thomas Edison had a great resume.
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Retric ◴[30 Nov 18 09:30 UTC] No.18567849[source]▶
He also ‘railroad others and use people as stepping stones to your way to the top‘ so that’s not a counter argument.
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Beskz ◴[30 Nov 18 09:41 UTC] No.18567911[source]▶
I think the argument was that he did precisely that. Yet history paints him as a great inventor (he was, and filed a lot of patents), and most people likely think of him as a "good/nice guy" which he may or may not have been.
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1. Retric ◴[30 Nov 18 10:03 UTC] No.18568006[source]▶
Yea, I realized that might be the case after posting. But, it’s an ambiguous statement in context.
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2. Ensorceled ◴[30 Nov 18 10:48 UTC] No.18568169[source]▶
Thomas Edison is notorious for doing this, so it isn’t that ambiguous.
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3. novia ◴[30 Nov 18 12:57 UTC] No.18568719[source]▶
Hi, hello, I'm a person who didn't know, so the clarification was valuable to me.
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4. mixmastamyk ◴[30 Nov 18 17:53 UTC] No.18570890{3}[source]▶
For others, just about every bio of Nikola Tesla describes how poorly he was treated by Edison. Interesting reading.
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5. DonHopkins ◴[30 Nov 18 20:33 UTC] No.18572373{4}[source]▶
Electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant, says a lot more about you as a human being than the person you're trying to discredit by electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant.

https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-torture...

https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant

NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo

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6. Retric ◴[30 Nov 18 20:57 UTC] No.18572547{5}[source]▶
I don't disagree with the larger point but:

"The war of the currents (sometimes called battle of the currents) was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

Electrocuting an Elephant seems to have occurred a decade after the war of currents January 17, 1903.

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7. DonHopkins ◴[30 Nov 18 21:05 UTC] No.18572612{6}[source]▶
So he had even less justification for electrocuting the elephant than trying to discredit Tesla, and he was even older and should have known better. That makes him an even worse human being in my book. Don't fuck with elephants!
8. antidesitter ◴[02 Dec 18 06:52 UTC] No.18581178{5}[source]▶
Edison was not responsible for Topsy's death. That is a myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)#Association_w...

http://edison.rutgers.edu/topsy.htm