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santoshalper on June 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oded Wins the Knuth Prize

Disliking a system and even publicly arguing against it, while still participating in it, is not hypocrisy, it is pragmatism.

It would be hypocrisy if he started giving out his own award.

mfukar on June 23, 2017 [–]

Some would even argue that you can't meaningfully criticise a system without experience in it.

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