Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
by txcwpalpha on Friday March 15, 2019 @12:48PM
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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.
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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group
by bitxbitxbitcoin on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:26PM
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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.