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Re:FSF wants to replace "the" pronoun in Linux Kernel by the... by jaxbot on Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:36AM (#7453469)
>The traditional binary foundation of 1s and 0s is deeply problematic: 1 is inherently phallic and thus misogynistic

Thanks for the link, this is golden trolling :p

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Re:FSF wants to replace "the" pronoun in Linux Kernel by the... by DanBC on Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:54AM (#7453544)
This was also in (I think) a Neal Stephenson book. Possibly Cryptonomicon.
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