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This is a tangential point, but that quote is idiotic. I've called most of my best friends assholes (and much more vulgar expletives), never in a serious manner. If anything, it comes off as self-deprecating:

> "That client thinks I can do X, Y, and Z and not completely fuck it up. What an absolute idiot."

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I don't think that quote is so un-serious, Zuckerburg is literally and rather specifically offering his friend private information of the users of Facebook, and ending with calling them "dumb fucks".

To the extent that I am learned about Zuckerburg in his earlier days of Facebook by having read various biographical accounts, I can pretty confidently say that the seriousness of his offer and the seriousness in his calling Facebook users "dumb fucks" goes well with the rest of his persona and doings.

But anyway, this is getting pretty off-topic so I'm stopping here.

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