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> He tried to fit in the german hacker culture, but everyone knew he was a fraud.

Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture...

> he tried to recruit young people on the mailing list into shady jobs with promises of easy money

Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!

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>Meanwhile readers of "HackerNews" and all the self-proclaimed "Hackers" at YC start-ups and all the trendy new "Growth Hackers" of course have much more in common with the CCC and hacker culture...

Please do a Ctrl+f again, I'm sure you wont find anything about HN or Start-Ups in my post.

>Like every entrepreneur at venture backed start-ups, right?!

Dunno, guess some startups are shady, guess some don't. Can we please talk about Kimble now? You're derailing the topic here.

Not really, he's trying to show that in the context of HN and startups kimble was doing what a lot of people do here, just using a different medium

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