The problem is that there's not really much more important going on in the world than the US self-deconstructing.
Many other things pale in comparison because the "other things that were important" were greatly facilitated by the US hegemony that's well on its way to burning to the ground.
All intellectual pursuit will be negatively affected.
tech has always been political. the difference is most people on HN are on the side of the Feds/profiteers now. hate to see that even more.
"This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."
Tech grew since the inception of HN, we went through quite different generations of people, and nowadays tech seems to be the one of the most political industries given its power, reach, and wealth.
It's impossible to disconnect from that, it's wishful thinking to expect a place attracting people from this industry to not have political content being discussed.
It's tech who got political, not HN, I hate to see it too, I'd prefer to be living in the era where creating things was the main purpose of our careers but that ship has sailed, the ground shifted under our feet.
The only reasonable grown-up thing to do is to accept the new status quo and deal with it, either by resisting or accepting that bygone era is done, it's no more.
Yeah that may be true. But one can only ask who wins from all the polarisation. Co-workers at odds, friends at odds, even family members at odds. Tech is(was?) intended to be our "happy place".
BLKNSLVR|11 months ago
Many other things pale in comparison because the "other things that were important" were greatly facilitated by the US hegemony that's well on its way to burning to the ground.
All intellectual pursuit will be negatively affected.
text0404|11 months ago
"This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals."
https://phrack.org/issues/7/3
ttyprintk|11 months ago
tim333|11 months ago
piva00|11 months ago
It's impossible to disconnect from that, it's wishful thinking to expect a place attracting people from this industry to not have political content being discussed.
It's tech who got political, not HN, I hate to see it too, I'd prefer to be living in the era where creating things was the main purpose of our careers but that ship has sailed, the ground shifted under our feet.
The only reasonable grown-up thing to do is to accept the new status quo and deal with it, either by resisting or accepting that bygone era is done, it's no more.
fintechie|11 months ago
BLKNSLVR|11 months ago