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Re:A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a ... by FpUser on Sunday November 24, 2024 @01:34AM (#42226286)
>" And most of us on HN have a healthy, deeply internalized sense of morality."

Really. I's say sense of delusion. I think that ratio of assholes to normal is about the same in highly educated vs your regular factory workers.

>"I really hope some of us will branch out into politics or other power-positions in those institutions, and start knocking people's heads together."

Sure. PhD in physics, that's all it takes for politicians to fix everything. This is delirium

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Re:A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a ... by XorNot on Sunday November 24, 2024 @04:49AM (#42226988)
The short version is: people get really stupid once they go outside their field of expertise.
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Re:A century later, a taped message solves the mystery of a ... by rightbyte on Sunday November 24, 2024 @05:53AM (#42227200)
Among academics programmers might have the worst asshole ratio of all. Is there any group that is even close?

Maybe there being so much money in programming changed that a bit. It seems like it was worse when people become programmers out of interest mainly.

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