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This thread is already full of silly archetypes and over generalizations not borne out by the reality. With that in mind: When you say drug using, “curious hacker mentality” all I can think of is Eric Raymond and the implication that this wizard of fetchmail is just too smart to work with the boring likes of von Neumann, Turing and Shannon, Tao, etc.

> Not being able to partake in THC consumption EVER

The all caps tickles me. I don’t think this is a huge sacrifice outside some limited circles. Some of the smartest people are ethical vegetarians.