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by entendre 4571 days ago
I used to go tour Williamsburg as a child. I used to love the shot towers and the tricorns and the proximity to the beach. I used to love the ferrier and the the legislators and the town harlot. I had been to jamestown and I had been to my own family's homestead which predated Williamsburg and their delicious recreation of a duck potpie. I respected Jamestown and I like to think even as a child I knew the recreation for what it was, the type of people who'd be there and yes, I too, would rather be wearing a uniform and protecting ponies on assiteague but creative anachronism at jamestown pays better because more people want to visit pocohontas than get yelled at for swimming with horses.

I guess my point is hackers are like ren faire workers these days. the problems are and have always been people not who works for them.