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Re:Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004) by anon4711 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:57PM (#12859200)
A person can be smart in one domain and stupid in another, so much is clear (think Grothendieck in maths and politics)

But a person cannot be both respectable and disrespectable at the same time, I find, although I'm afraid now we might be disagreeing rather about words than ideas. Respectability, to me, is a compliment to somebody's set of values.

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Re:Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004) by omginternets on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:47PM (#12866214)
I agree, but the point was rather about censorship.

I find it troubling that we should censor (explicitly or otherwise) someone on accounts of his respectability. I find this especially true when the source of disrespectability stems from an unrelated topic.

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