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Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three)

Posted by samzenpus on from the small-steps dept.

jfruh writes Last weekend, Tim Berners-Lee said that the UK needs more members of parliament who can code. Well, the most recent U.S. congressional election has obliged him on this side of the Atlantic: the number of coders in Congress has tripled, with the downside being that their numbers have gone from one to three.

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  1. Re:IQ of congress by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Was just gonna say this. I know a guy who can do all kinds of coding and believes that both evolution and climate change are not real. Another who thinks the moon landing was a hoax. Apart from these tinfoil-hatters, I also know some coders who are massive douchebags and even idiots.

    Ability to code is no guarantee of good intelligence or character.

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  2. Re:IQ of congress by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Addendum: Now that I think of it, if I had to choose between a politician who was a coder and one who wasn't a coder with no other information, I'd vote for the non-coder. Too high a percentage of the coders I know (or know of) are conspiracy nuts and/or egomaniac manchildren.

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  3. Re:Well that's a start... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If China was smart they would implement exactly what the US has ended up with: divide their One Party into two barely distinguishable "front" parties to give the illusion of choice, while the real System churns happily away in the background. No other country could complain, because it's basically what happens everywhere, but it would get rid of the "one party state" image problem.

    real dissent is squashed out everywhere