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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by babarock on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:22PM (#5862783) 

    His lack of education is relevant because when you have at least some understanding of the depth of complex systems, it becomes very hard to imagine that a self-taught person has enough knowledge to speak competently about multiple such systems.
This is so wrong it's not even funny. If Peter Norvig can say "One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree" [1], then surely you can admit that your statement is wrong.

[1]: http://norvig.com/21-days.html

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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by jessedhillon on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:28PM (#5862840)
I'm sorry that you understood my statement to be of the form "no such person exists, such that..." when in fact I was expressing a conclusion about the typical (perhaps stereotyped) person with this background.
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Re:The Smears Against Edward Snowden Have Begun by Anderkent on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @12:34PM (#5862900)
The point is that whether a typical person understands that kind of system is irrelevant. He's already highly atypical by virtue of working for the NSA and being a whistle-blower.
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