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Re: Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

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Post by opinion-is-bad »

California farmer, mostly pistachio and almonds. The farm has been in the family for four generations now and we hope to continue that.

I found HN while I worked at Google on self-driving cars from 2014-2018. At least two postings on HN have been direct material impact to me: the first about an autonomous tractor we might be experimenting with soon, and the second about water restrictions in CA that fortunately did not end up impacting us, but caused us to come up with some interesting water contingencies.

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Post by leroman »

Eikon wrote: post #7
newbamboo wrote: post #2

Everything is tech. And tech is nothing. For instance Google is an ad business. The web, aside from ads, is publishing. I propose we drop the construct altogether. It had its place back when personal computers were novel, but the contemporary historian writes code. Unless you mean software engineering, but much of that is now plumbing and project management.

> but the contemporary historian writes code. What?

I think he means something like the WayBackMachine (http://web.archive.org/) etc..

Re: Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

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Post by nusaru »

8eye wrote: post #17
999900000999 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in the same boat. I found Reddit to be one of the most hateful communities online. Checkout the Herman Cain award sub if you want proof. In my 20s I wasted a ton of time arguing about politics and even my own life on that site. While 9/10 times I'd find someone fun, the 1/10 was spent absorbing pure vitriol. Ultimately no one cares about what I think or how I choose to live my life. No normal person will spend al…

def have to agree on this one, reddit is selective about what toxicity they allow and which ones they do not. it’s become the platform of hypocrisy. way too toxic than what it use to be, aaron swartz (co-founder of reddit who died in a us federal prison) would be crying in his grave

Aaron Swartz did not die in prison. He committed suicide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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Post by mattowen_uk »

opinion-is-bad wrote: post #21

California farmer, mostly pistachio and almonds. The farm has been in the family for four generations now and we hope to continue that. I found HN while I worked at Google on self-driving cars from 2014-2018. At least two postings on HN have been direct material impact to me: the first about an autonomous tractor we might be experimenting with soon, and the second about water restrictions in CA that fortunately did n…

I've just watched season 3 of the legal drama 'Goliath' starring Billy Bob Thornton, which was ALL about almond farmers in California trying to get water. Really good show, totally recommend it.

Re: Ask HN: Non-tech professionals on HN?

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Post by Godel_unicode »

sammyq wrote: post #5
ARandomerDude wrote: post #4

Philosophy and theology student here, former military. I have a passion for history and dabble in Latin. I'm here because I pay for my masters and academic hobbies in other fields with my tech day job. I believe in the Renaissance model of trying to understand and succeed in many fields.

How do you pay for school, I’m interested in more classical majors as well but schooling is expensive.

>... I pay for my masters and academic hobbies in other fields with my tech day job.
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