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It turns out the arrogant shitting on the rest of the planet by authoritarian techies in the Bay Area has some mild consequences about a dozen orders of magnitu

It turns out the arrogant shitting on the rest of the planet by authoritarian techies in the Bay Area has some mild consequences about a dozen orders of magnitude less than the shit it has sprayed on everyone else. If "Flyover Country" has ever been in your vocabulary for a nanosecond, you deserve all that's being heaped on you and 1,000,000x more. You can't abuse humanity, tell them it's for their own good, and then whine when there's a slight bit of blowback against your arrogance and attempt to control and micromanage everybody's lives through technology.

Der_Einzige 4y ago
1. I was born in "flyover country", I know what the great plains looks like and understand their economic struggles. 2. Again, huggingface open source meetup was the OPPOSITE of authoritarian tech bros. It's literally the people trying to democratize and keep this stuff available to the masses. This post here is the resentment I'm talking about. The reality is that the average HF event attendee has done far more to help "flyover states" than most SF tech workers. They should be treated as such, not scorned like they're part of a "techno authoritarian future". The techno authoritarians are OpenAI and their cronies. If nuance isn't possible from non tech bros who resent tech bros, maybe there is a reason why the world is leaving them behind.
- baremetal 4y ago
  Between pandemics, inflation, food scarcity.. I'm not sure the world is leaving non tech bros behind. And I am a tech bro who moved to rural and bought the farm in 2020. I support you HF guys though. Also if you want to get into clubs in SF, at least when I use to party there extensively in the 00's you either: A) Go to a rave style club that lets anyone in or B) You wear nice "preppy" clothes. With a fresh haircut. I've been turned away from clubs for not having a button down shirt on. Dress code is a real thing.
dang 4y ago
Can you please keep this sort of flamewar fodder off this site? We don't want tribes bashing each other and calling each other names here—none of it has anything to do with intellectual curiosity, which is what HN is supposed to be for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note that they ask you not to call names or fulminate.

Der_Einzige 4y ago

1. I was born in "flyover country", I know what the great plains looks like and understand their economic struggles. 2. Again, huggingface open source meetup was the OPPOSITE of authoritarian tech bros. It's literally the people trying to democratize and keep this stuff available to the masses. This post here is the resentment I'm talking about. The reality is that the average HF event attendee has done far more to help "flyover states" than most SF tech workers. They should be treated as such, not scorned like they're part of a "techno authoritarian future". The techno authoritarians are OpenAI and their cronies. If nuance isn't possible from non tech bros who resent tech bros, maybe there is a reason why the world is leaving them behind.

baremetal 4y ago
Between pandemics, inflation, food scarcity.. I'm not sure the world is leaving non tech bros behind. And I am a tech bro who moved to rural and bought the farm in 2020. I support you HF guys though. Also if you want to get into clubs in SF, at least when I use to party there extensively in the 00's you either: A) Go to a rave style club that lets anyone in or B) You wear nice "preppy" clothes. With a fresh haircut. I've been turned away from clubs for not having a button down shirt on. Dress code is a real thing.

dang 4y ago

Can you please keep this sort of flamewar fodder off this site? We don't want tribes bashing each other and calling each other names here—none of it has anything to do with intellectual curiosity, which is what HN is supposed to be for. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note that they ask you not to call names or fulminate.