alt Hacker NewsIf someone purposely dug up emails you wrote 19 years ago, I'm sure they'd find some of your "dumber takes" as well.
I'm not sure what the purpose of revisiting this is beyond provoking a flamewar on a slow Sunday.
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tptacek • today at 6:56 PM
I mean, I agree there. We all have dumb takes! I hear roughly once a month about my old "I don't think Dual EC is a backdoor, it's too dumb and obvious for anyone to actually use it" take.
bawolff • today at 7:14 PM
Probably people are responding less to the dumbness of the take and more the arrogance of the tone combined with the dumbness of the take. Everyone has dumb takes, not everyone is an asshole while giving their dumb takes.
Regardless i do agree with you though, not sure what the point of digging up ancient skeletons is.
> If someone purposely dug up emails you wrote 19 years ago, I'm sure they'd find some of your "dumber takes" as well.
"Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will find something in them which will hang him."
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