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> a Great Man of History Really depends on how many of these awards you’re handing out. My guess is of all the people in the world who have been born in the pa
by paulcole 5y ago
> a Great Man of History
Really depends on how many of these awards you’re handing out. My guess is of all the people in the world who have been born in the past century, he’d be “ranked” somewhere in the ones-of-millions? Maybe if you’re being super generous you could make a case for him in the hundreds-of-thousands?
- spfzero 5y agoI guess you can name each of the hundreds of thousands that ranked higher than Linus then. Sure, in a century there are lots of people making contributions positive enough to make a similar impact. Maybe a few thousand, not hundreds of thousands or millions.
- paulcole 5y agoI can’t name them. The same as you can’t name the few thousand ahead of him on your list. My estimate was based on the facts that the world is a big place, 100 years is a long time, and that people on HN are likely to GREATLY overvalue the contribution of a technologist.