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I'm in "nerd culture". If it's too brittle to fit the needs of people in it, to hell with it. Change or die. I'm reminded of Grigori Perelman's critique of mat

I'm in "nerd culture". If it's too brittle to fit the needs of people in it, to hell with it. Change or die. I'm reminded of Grigori Perelman's critique of mathematicians: "But almost all of them are conformists." "It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated." If anyone of us is a nerd and can't improve their own culture, GTFO. And take your "dongles" and Big Bang Theory goofiness with you. No special privileges for those who simply preceded others temporally. Dinosaur.

leereeves 12y ago
> Change or die. Change or be killed, at your hands, it sounds like. Can you blame people for fighting back against that?
sgift 12y ago
Or "nerd culture" could eliminate you and all the others trying to force change. There's no evidence that you are anything but a oxygen waster, so why should it hold back when you attack first?
dang 12y ago
> Dinosaur. Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.