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I second the nomination of The Dread Pirate Roberts.
Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year
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#521. Elon Musk
2. Satoshi Nakamoto
3. Edward Snowden
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#53Edward Snowden.
Lot's of Elon Musk's though. Let's vote him as Person of the Century.
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#54POY: the nucleus group of Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden, and someone we should not forget to thank, Assange. Where, pray tell, would we be without them?
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#55Aaron Swartz
Edward Snowden
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#56Re: Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
On the flip side, getting a job working at the NSA and smuggling out hundreds of Top Secret documents, talking to a bunch of reporters across the globe to orchestrate a controlled release of the information, all while seeking asylum and evading capture is a pretty neat hack.
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#58Elon Musk.
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#59Snowden isn't real, a 'Facebook Ghost Profile' is.
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#60Elon Musk for sure.