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There isn't a (proven) financial incentive for Snowden, yet he's classified as a traitor anyway. Even here on Hacker News, a community of people with an intelli
by bad_user 11y ago
There isn't a (proven) financial incentive for Snowden, yet he's classified as a traitor anyway. Even here on Hacker News, a community of people with an intelligence over average, I've seen opinions that Snowden seeking asylum in Russia is fishy, in spite of the fact that he had no other option. Here we have Snowden living the life of a refugee and being hunted by the most competent intelligence agencies on earth, probably for the rest of his life and we are still discussing ulterior motives, even here on HN.
So what difference would a $100,000 incentive would make in the public opinion? Mostly none. But to the whistleblower, it doesn't make one rich, but it can be enough to escape a country and seek asylum somewhere.
- qwerty-- 11y ago"Even here on Hacker News, a community of people with an intelligence over average..." Really? intelligent in which topic? You are really demeaning others. Just because you are super techie/coder doesn't make you intelligent in other issues.
- bad_user 11y agoI was referring to IQ and while I personally never agreed to its validity, I use it anyway because a lot of people do, but let me change that statement ... it's undeniable that here on HN we've got a large concentration of people very familiar with mathematical logic, relational algebra, discrete maths, the good stuff, so we should be able to detect the truthiness of certain statements when facts are involved, since that's what most of us do in our daily jobs, whereas other people rely more on instinct and feelings which can cloud their judgement. Therefore I found it odd to see people on HN classifying the acts of Snowden to be of a bad nature, without hearing arguments more solid than his asylum in Russia. Of course, everybody is entitled to their own opinion.