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by taeric 4947 days ago
The fact that you had to use the No True Scotsman* definition for hackers as your argument really does not endear it to me.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

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> The fact that you had to use the No True Scotsman* definition for hackers as your argument really does not endear it to me.

Please read what I wrote more carefully.

I said it was entirely plausible that good hackers vote up articles like this, because good hackers have varied interests that include things like politics.

Most of my argument focuses, in any case, on the difference between the "getting people excited" vs "describing something fascinating" types of articles.

Wearing your fingers down...