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krobertson on Feb 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Silicon Valley geeks have their own ‘Fight Club’. ...

Though I was facepalmed through the entire video... it does lend itself to one question:

If you could geek fight anyone in history who would it be? :)

I'm torn between 1960s Gordon Moore or RMS (any decade).

rbanffy on Feb 10, 2011 | [–]

Bill Gates, but he would probably be hiding brass knuckles or a knife.

knieveltech on Feb 10, 2011 | [–]

ESR, definitely.

billswift on Feb 10, 2011 | [–]

He'd hand you your ass. I'm a serious martial artist and I wouldn't want to fight him (outside of training). http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=318

knieveltech on Feb 11, 2011 | | [–]

You're assuming I wouldn't park a bus on him as an opening move.

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