When I was younger I used to be much more influentiable, now you just can't change my mind, I made it up for good thank you.

And it pays off in cases like this, I'll be talking with someone about a topic like the seriousness of a vulnerability, they disagree, that's fine no need to convince me, you won't. And then it turns out they're left-leaning abolitionists who are against the idea of jails.

Many such cases, on the other hand I'll be disagreeing with someone on business strategy, and two lines later they reveal that they think taxation is theft. I can rest easy and ignore them.

> now you just can't change my mind, I made it up for good thank you

Respectfully, that’s not a very “hacker” way of seeing the world. Hackers learn from their mistakes and adapt. (Just like this software company is doing.)