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Comment by mothsonasloth | Hacker News Reader

This is the problem with the internet now, profile pics, egotistical bio summaries and emojis.

It was more fun when it was anonymous and the person you were talking to could have been a 43 year old neo nazi with blue hair, but their code or stuff was good, so you didn't have that getting in the way of you.

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How does that apply to the story?

The PR author has their location in their Github profile. Had they not filled this part, the maintainer probably would have just merged the PR.

Is that bad to share that info?

And that aside, what about the name?

Going this direction seems like a very strange aside to a situation where the law is clearly bonkers...

You asked how the comment that "it is the problem with detailed bio" related to the story. I'm not saying it's bad or not, people are free to share what they want, but had the PR author not done that, the PR would have been merged, that's all.

Not sure what you mean about the name.

I think his name might give his background away.

I see. I don't know if the exact policy the maintainer is referring to is only for "people from Israel" or "jewish people in general". If the former, the contributor could be jewish without living in Israel.

"It was more fun when I didn't know I was working with Nazis" is an extraordinarily bad take.

He clearly said it was more fun not knowing the personal details of whoever he was working with online, not that he was ever literally working with Nazis.

Quite the misrepresentation of the comment

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