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I'm not hearing much argument for why I might be wrong, other than pearl clutching, tone policing and guilt by association


Nobody's clutching pearls or tone policing.

Your arguments aren't unique by a long shot; you're simply witnessing two seperate people who have been discussing technical matters since pre-WWW Usenet days observing there are hackers who have been making those arguments for 40+ years.

I can't speak for Don but for my part they got dull 35+ years back.

I'm sure you can find a rebuttal or reinforcement, whichever you need, elsewhere.


All of a sudden it seems the commenters have started name-calling and stereotyping the poster (realjhol) without any evidence or links to dispute his statements. Maybe replying in good faith would be a more helpful discussion, with links to support/deny his arguments?


I've read his posting history. It's quite clear what kind of a person he is, especially from the patterns and subjects of all his heavily downvoted and flagged posts. As if that wasn't already obvious from his recent sexist posts. But go read them yourself and carry the water for his bigotry if you like, it'll just say a lot about yourself too. Like Elon Musk and his flashing "X", some people just desperately want you to know they're assholes.




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