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0 pointscoolj12y ago0 comments

Should you judged by the views and actions of others who self-identify as "hackers"? If the label includes people with a wide range of fundamentally incompatible views, it's not very useful to use as a yard stick. It looks a lot like guilt by association.

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lmm12y ago

> Should you judged by the views and actions of others who self-identify as "hackers"?

Yes

> It looks a lot like guilt by association.

Your political affiliation is your own choice, so it doesn't seem to have that unfairness.

yummyfajitas12y ago

So it's fair to judge Democrats as guilty by association in this case?

(Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Marisa Mayer, Eric Schmidt and Steve Jobs all self-identify as "Democrat", not "[Ll]ibertarian". The president of Adobe is on Obama's PMAB. I can't find info on the others with 3 minutes of googling.)

lmm12y ago

Sure, although I'm not sure the hypocrisy line is terribly effective here. A bunch of people who think regulations are necessary to stop corporations exploiting their workers turn out to run corporations that exploit workers? Well, yeah, isn't that exactly what you'd expect?

dllthomas12y ago

Most association is your own choice.

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lmm12y ago

> Should you judged by the views and actions of others who self-identify as "hackers"?

Yes

> It looks a lot like guilt by association.

Your political affiliation is your own choice, so it doesn't seem to have that unfairness.

yummyfajitas12y ago

So it's fair to judge Democrats as guilty by association in this case?

lmm12y ago

dllthomas12y ago

Most association is your own choice.

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