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Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

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wrs · 1790799936 · focus · HN ↗
I’m a CMU SCS alum (actually I predate SCS being a full school). Please, someone make me feel better about this. They’re renaming the school after this person.
1. alephnerd · 1790800911 · focus · HN ↗
  Yes and?
  You went to a school who's founder was a robber baron (Carnegie) who deployed the army to put down a strike [0] and who's other founder (Mellon) caused the Great Depression [1] and whose family funded Trump 2 [2].
  Alternatively, be happy CMU has more capital to continue to build programs.
  Edit: can't reply
  > To be fair, the Trumper is a different Mellon
  It's the same family and Timothy Mellon is a direct descendent and heir of Andrew Mellon's
  [0] - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
  [1] - <a href="https://time.com/archive/6757394/the-cabinet-death-of-mellon/" rel="nofollow">https://time.com/archive/6757394/the-cabinet-death-of-mellon...
  [2] - <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9eed9g3vlyo" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9eed9g3vlyo
  1. t0mpr1c3 · 1790804115 · focus · HN ↗
    That's watermelon under the bridge.
    Honeydew you even realise, the Trumper is some useless offspring from the 3rd or 4th degeneration. Like, the Tiffany Trump of Mellons. A petty pilferer among robber aristocracy. He probably never locked out a workforce in his whole life.

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