Unrelated to crypto but I've noticed the libertarian nerds of Cryptonomicon at the time seemed like likable quirky characters. Now that it's a huge and grating

Unrelated to crypto but I've noticed the libertarian nerds of Cryptonomicon at the time seemed like likable quirky characters. Now that it's a huge and grating subset of the population, it doesn't reread well for liberals, the modern day main character was almost too annoying to read about for me.