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Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' by jacknews on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:03AM (#18459730)
Agreed, hands-on experience does not equate to understanding. Should architects necessarily be skilled bricklayers, etc? Let alone housing-policy advisors.

And as others have pointed out, politicians are not known to be the most careful users of computers, so perhaps he is rather wise to abstain.

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Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' by Kaveren on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:16AM (#18459853)
For the architect metaphor to work out he'd need to be a programmer, which I doubt because he'd likely mention that if he was. Also hard to be a programmer if you've never used a computer.
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Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' by aquadrop on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:55AM (#18460227)
What he's saying applying to architect is "Never been in the building"

For finance minster: "What's a bank?"

For science minister: "I don't need to be able to read, staff can read for me"

For healthcare minister: "Homeopathy all the way, forget everything else".

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