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There most certainly are B.S. degrees in history. There are also > 0 historians here, > 0 experts here, be they degree- or tenure-holding. Some of us don’t prac
by bobwaycott 9y ago
There most certainly are B.S. degrees in history. There are also > 0 historians here, > 0 experts here, be they degree- or tenure-holding. Some of us don’t practice because we turned our history degrees into tech careers. Some of us have other interests outside history. Some of us think history includes tech. Some of us have interests outside tech, and that includes history.
- criley2 9y agoAnd some of us use multi-purpose websites like reddit to talk about our wide interests, while keeping Hacker News, started by the Silicon Valley tech-company incubator YCombinator intentionally for SV tech news and discussion, more in-line with the entire point. Again, the reddification of hacker news is its demise. You will always get better history discussion on reddit.com/r/askhistorians, a community full of verified historians, than Hacker News, a community of mainly programmers and those involved with modern tech industry. Specialization works. Diluting this website will destroy it, just as it destroyed reddit prior to subreddits.
- Chris2048 9y agoThat's a lot of unquantified weasels.