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A comment on Dostoevsky on the dangers of science.

Re:Dostoevsky on the dangers of science by mtw on Monday October 13, 2008 @11:36AM (#331111)
is this criticizing hackers and/or programmers?
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Re:Dostoevsky on the dangers of science by biohacker42 on Monday October 13, 2008 @12:21PM (#331171)
I am not sure it is so much criticizing as much as it is simply describing.

Being passionate about something to the exclusion of every thing else is a common human folly.

That something being knowledge is common for us hackers.

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Re:Dostoevsky on the dangers of science by mtw on Monday October 13, 2008 @08:51PM (#331782)
the excerpt uses very grim words for something which is just "describing".

that said, I agree with your last 2 sentences

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