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25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

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Re: 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

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post #87

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Now you've expanded the definition of political so much I simply don't care if something is political or not, the word has lost all meaning. You've also completely avoid my question, do you want the majority of the world who don't think society should accept homosexuality to be voicing their opinions more?

> You've also completely avoid my question I didn't understand it tbh, and I still don't... I don't consider all opinions to have equal value but I do value people being able to express opinions that I disagree with. That doesn't mean someone should be voicing opinions about e.g. homosexuality in a place where it has no relevance (Typical context: a github issue discussion). In those contexts I just expect everyone t…

> I didn't understand it tbh, and I still don't...

The point is to highlight your hypocrisy. You say you want influential people to be more overtly political but you really only want people you agree with to be more overtly political.

> That doesn't mean someone should be voicing opinions about e.g. homosexuality in a place where it has no relevance (Typical context: a github issue discussion)

This was my point all along, it seems like you do agree that there is such a thing as being apolitical. So why is context only important now? Why is this political position out of context on a GitHub discussion but in context for a football player or someone doing backflips on a bike?

Re: 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

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post #133

A meta issue here... > Nancy and I and our three daughters are all doing well. Our eldest, Zoe, who was 11 when Marc and I started Red Hat, is expecting her second child—meaning I'm a grandparent. First off, I don’t give a damn about the interviewer’s family, Red Hat founder or not. Not sure why it’s included in the article. But you know who does? Identity thieves. I feel like Young should be more aware of the issues…

You're going to have to learn to deal with some editorialization. That's part of life and reading articles on the internet You're an anonymous observer to two peoples' conversation, who clearly have a history that spans decades. Stay in your lane.

Re: 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

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post #108
post #104

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Looks like you're right. Ice hockey is the national _winter_ sport of Canada while lacrosse is the _summer_ sport.

OT: you could fix the intended italics in your comment by using ' ' instead of '_'. > Looks like you're right. Ice hockey is the national winter sport of Canada while lacrosse is the summer sport. See here for the formatting options supported: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Too late to edit now, but thanks. :)

Re: 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

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post #133

A meta issue here... > Nancy and I and our three daughters are all doing well. Our eldest, Zoe, who was 11 when Marc and I started Red Hat, is expecting her second child—meaning I'm a grandparent. First off, I don’t give a damn about the interviewer’s family, Red Hat founder or not. Not sure why it’s included in the article. But you know who does? Identity thieves. I feel like Young should be more aware of the issues…

You're going to have to learn to deal with some editorialization. That's part of life and reading articles on the internet You're an anonymous observer to two peoples' conversation, who clearly have a history that spans decades. Stay in your lane.

> Stay in your lane.

Meaning what?

Re: 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

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post #130
post #44

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> Sigh. Are you posting this Twitter meme seriously or is it a joke? It doesn't even stand up to light intellectual scrutiny. Actually, far from a Twitter meme, it's a millennia long empirical observation. It's only the disconnect from power of today's citizen that make them thing they can be uninvolved with politics (and that this doesn't send a political message and have political impact). The very definition of a…

> The very definition of a citizen was one who was active in politics (the inverse being someone preoccupied with their own private matters, an "idiotis" in Ancient Greek, and the etymology for "idiot"). Um, OK... but not everything is a political act. It's just a ridiculous meme I see now and again.

Yeah, it's not literally really about everything (e.g. taking a shit) being political, it's about how all kinds of stances are political (even a stance like "I don't care about politics, I focus on my own personal stuff" has political implications).

Re: 25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds

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post #116

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Snobs? I have an XPS after previously being a ThinkPad fan, the XPS was much more expensive.

ooo, I was just about to choose thinkpad over xps mainly because of the keyboard. Does XPS have any advantage?

Price. That's literally it.
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