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Comment by prezjordan | Hacker News Reader

I wanted to enjoy this post, but I couldn't help but wonder what was plagiarized[0] this time around. Perhaps it was a stupid mistake back then, but tough to look past it.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/2huw34/what_its_...

EDIT: Looks like a lot of it. Sigh.

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Doing a reverse google image search seems like he googled for lots of train trips and combined photos from various sources. He's a great marketer, but bad photographer.

* http://landscapevoice.com/the-california-zephyr-trip-recap/

* http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/08/16/i-survived-the-lake-s...

A number of the images are direct copies from the first link (ie: sleeper car pictures)

The Lakeshore limited image was awkwardly cropped (to remove watermark) from the second link. Side by side: https://i.imgur.com/hu9viqf.png

The dining car photo came from: http://www.baune.info/train.html

Another dining car photo came from: https://akronrrclub.wordpress.com/tag/cleveland-amtrak-stati...

The Emeryville station came from: http://subwaynut.com/california/amtrak/emeryville/emeryville...

Ha, I wanted to say something like, "what a shame that this guy can't escape this infamy", but sure enough, 5 or 6 of those images are the same. Pretty confusing to me, because it seems like he did the trip and presumably could have used his own images – what's the point of this?

He also posted this to Medium, so hopefully they can do something about it. https://blog.growth.supply/across-the-usa-by-train-for-just-...

I went ahead and wrote to the author of the post you linked, and also reported the post on Medium.

EDIT: The author of the post you linked above got back to me. These photos were used without her permission.

It's gone :)

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/11230907

If you're interested in reporting him to UC Berkeley for plagiarism and generally conduct unbecoming of a Berkeley student, here is the link:

http://sa.berkeley.edu/conduct/report

He's not a Berkeley student anymore. He graduated two years ago. Slightly ashamed I went to the same school as he did but I suppose he's just a lazy blogger trying to document his trips. Overall a harmless guy.

I would consider it harmless if he took down the images and issued an apology instead of blocking left and right.

He's a thief.

Strangely the article about trains had a big ad for the article about Singapore Airlines at the bottom. I had a hard time remembering if this was the guy who originated that content or ripped it off. Thanks for the refresher...it's surprising this guy seems to be proud of the content he stole, even now.

Yup it's the same dude that ripped it off

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