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calmbonsaiyesterday at 8:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

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TruffleLabsyesterday at 8:20 PM

For clarity, he has a master's degree, not a Ph.D.

Via NYTime Nov. 16, 1998 article "Compressed Data; Stanford Gave Writer A Start, but Not a Ph.D." -

"The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that Mr. Stephens had not been a professor at Stanford University and had not earned a doctorate there, as he had claimed."

"A university spokeswoman said that Mr. Stephens had worked as a teaching assistant and earned only a master's degree."

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/16/business/compressed-data-...

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tomhowtoday at 4:16 AM

Can HN be a bit better than to sneer about transgressions that go back nearly three decades and had no real victims? I would have hoped so.