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A comment on Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group. Parent comment

Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by usefulcat on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:21PM (#19401912)
Only among people (as here) who have much greater than average tech knowledge, and probably a far more nuanced understanding of the various possible meanings of "hacker".

Elsewhere, the words "hacker" and "hacking" have an almost universally negative connotation.

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Re:Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group by romwell on Friday March 15, 2019 @02:18PM (#19402583)
>Only among people (as here) who have much greater than average tech knowledge

Which might be the whole point of this piece:

>But the political balance allows him to appeal to both main strands of political thought in Silicon Valley – a key source of campaign money and cultural influence.

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