Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> So if you know what a Polish reversed list is, you should also be 
>> familiar with various political figures? How does that work?
> 
>   Do you know how Bill Gates is?

Surely you don't even need to know what a computer is to have heard of 
the richest man on Earth.

> Do you know who Steve Jobs is?

No.

> Do you know who Donald Knuth is?

I'm told he's this legendary computer programmer. (I only know this 
because of TeX.)

>   You should know who Richard Stallman is.

Um... any reason?

Isn't that like saying if you know how a magnet works, you should know 
who Tesla is?

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