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Re: Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year

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Post by subsrim » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 1:47 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year

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Post by jaboutboul » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 1:50 PM UTC

It's a toss up between Snowden and Elon Musk. While I do believe Elon Musk will change the world we live in tomorrow, Snowden has dramatically changed our perception of the world we live in today.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year

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Post by user24 » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 1:50 PM UTC

gtt wrote: post #27

samweinberg wrote: post #9

Satoshi couldn't be person of the year, he hasn't been heard from since '10! /s

And there is a chance he is not person.

That didn't stop TIME magazine in 2011 ("The Protestor"), or 2006 ("You").

Re: Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year

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Post by Udo » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 1:51 PM UTC

insickness wrote: post #39

Udo wrote: post #16

Elon Musk - SpaceX and Tesla have been on HN pretty consistently this year, and it's an inspiring option, too. Snowden is not a bad choice, especially since he'll probably be snubbed by the Times in favor of the politically safe Miley Cyrus, but he's not really in tech. Satoshi Nakamoto should have been the HN POY last year (or next year once BTC goes really mainstream).

How can you say Snowden is not "in tech"? He revealed the entire global internet to be something different than we thought it was. It is political but that doesn't mean it's not technology.

There's no question that the information he leaked concerns technology, but at the same time it's clear this is a throughly political problem. So that's how I can say that Snowden is not in tech, because he's not and the whole NSA storyline is only incidentally about tech. Believe me, I'm as pissed off about the whole affair as anyone, but this is a world stage event and I was thinking a HN POY could be, at least in principle, "one of our own", as poorly defined as that concept might be.