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Finnish-American software engineer, he started the Linux kernel in 1991 and created Git in 2005; his technical leadership and open development made these projects central to digital infrastructure.
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Linus Torvalds leans further toward irreligious than 79% of the 444 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion is where Linus Torvalds stands furthest from the rest.
On Power, Linus Torvalds sits practically at the catalog median.
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Model of government in which decisions are made by experts and technical, scientific criteria, entrusting engineers, economists, and scientists with the rational and efficient management of the state and the economy.
Political stance that judges proposals by the practical results they produce rather than fidelity to an ideological dogma, combining market measures, regulation, and social policy according to evidence and each problem's context.
Centrism taken to its limit: it refuses any leaning on principle and seeks exact equidistance between every pole, from economics to morality, treating each political axis as a balance point to be preserved.
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Anarcho-ConservatismLibertarian42%
British independent scientist, Lovelock formulated the Gaia hypothesis, which sees Earth as a self-regulating system, warned about global warming, broke with environmentalism by defending nuclear power and predicted in “Novacene” that cyborgs would succeed humanity.
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A European semi-presidential republic, France combines a strong republican and secular tradition, a robust welfare state, a mixed economy, and a prominent diplomatic, cultural, and military role in the European Union and the world.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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