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Fair enough. A juice machine will not automate farming. But is not SV also the home of companies like Google, Apple, etc., that make real, cutting edge stuff?
by ghettoimp 9y ago
Fair enough. A juice machine will not automate farming.
But is not SV also the home of companies like Google, Apple, etc., that make real, cutting edge stuff? (And lots of unsexy companies doing boring work too, nevertheless with real customers).
I think it’s fine to give credit to farmers and the insights they have. But SV has a great deal of unique skills, and casting them as somehow unable to solve real problems seems, to me, quite unrealistic.
- Fins 9y agoI am trying to think of anything worthwhile Apple had ever delivered that was actually their idea, but somehow fail... Sure, there are companies that make real, cutting edge stuff in SV. As there are in other places. But SV has far more noise that just would not even appear any any saner part of the world. Although I would really question whether Apple does (or ever did) anything cutting edge that wasn't... eh... borrowed from somebody else. But really, what unique skills does SV have? Chutzpah isn't a skill, after all.