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by gerash 2524 days ago
You'd imagine a professor in Psychology from Harvard would not hold a grudge for seven years over Google warning users about his hacked website and "tarnishing" his reputation. Apparently not.
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Some random dude on hackernews claims that Epstein's motivation is based on a 7 year grudge, and you just believe it.
Had you done a quick search you'd find his Wikipedia page along with several references.
> would not hold a grudge for seven years ...

Why not?

He had a poor experience with them some time ago, and Googles behaviour in the last 7 years has been abysmal and seems to be getting far worse. eg likely re-inforcing his opinion.

Not really seeing why he'd "forgive" an entity with those circumstances.

If Google had instead changed for the better, maybe you'd have a point. :)

You're just talking in abstract terms. Let's be grounded in facts. His initial "poor experience" was that his website was hacked in 2012 and Google warned its users about visiting it.
> You're just talking in abstract terms.

Sure. But you are too. You seem surprised someone would hold a grudge for 7 years against a bad actor.

Personally, I don't find it surprising at all.