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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by dmos62 on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:40PM (#19401355)
> historically hackers have been phenomenally bad people to give any kind of real power to

Do you have any examples?

Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by txcwpalpha on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:48PM (#19401484)
Paul Leroux comes to mind. It also really depends on who you consider to be a "hacker". To some people, Zuckerberg fits the description (though he is a different type of hacker, moreso the "hacker" of "Hacker News"), and I think most would agree he would be a terrible politician.
Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by bitxbitxbitcoin on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:26PM (#19406023)
Was Leroux given power or did he take it, though? I'd posit that there may be differences between hackers that are given power and "power hungry" hackers that crave/seek/take power. There are then further differences between those power hungry hackers that only operate legally and those that are willing to do illegal things. I guess I'm just trying to say that Beto doesn't seem to be trying to take power the way that Leroux did so the comparison may not be as valid.
Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by busterarm on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:44PM (#19401431)
The laundry list of drama, infighting, bullying, sexual assaults, forcing people to take drugs, stealing research, etc., probably wouldn't have any context to an outsider.

And most of what happens to people in this community occurs behind their backs.

Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by stevenwoo on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:44PM (#19401432)
The guy behind The Daily Stormer, Andrew Auernheimer?
Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by hi5eyes on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:42PM (#19401400)
hackers generally dont like rules, as a start. the ethos for most is not really in line with positions of authority
Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by AceyMan on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:52PM (#19401534)
To my mind, Mark Zuckerberg fits here. (He wasn't "given" power, but the end result is much the same.)
Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by dvtrn on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:54PM (#19401563)
(He wasn't "given" power, but the end result is much the same.)

"slowly amassed", perhaps?