I agree that we should be skeptical of the idea that we should judge people in their 30s based on things they did in their teens... but I'm a "high talent adult developer" who had a modem in the '90s and didn't do anything anywhere near as shitty when I was that age.

I dunno. People change a lot as they grow up. But it says something that he was committing computer crimes as a teenager. And now he's participating in the dismantling of a democracy. So I feel like his current actions do actually reflect the crap he pulled as a teen.

> and didn't do anything anywhere near as shitty when I was that age.

Being honest could you even have done it at 15, hard to be virtuous about not doing something you're not capable of.

I used to boast about hacking stuff to my friends at that age, couldn't actually do it though, wasn't smart enough was just teenage bravado.

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