Re:Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)
by mnemonicsloth on Sunday May 10, 2009 @03:46AM
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I know there is a very strong anti-academic current here on HN...
You know. Really? How? What's the basis for your claim?
I confess I'm having a hard time giving you the benefit of the doubt here.
Three of YCombinator's founders have PhD's from Harvard. A number of other users are graduate students, professors, or researchers in industry, and I've never noticed any animus toward them. A significant fraction of the submissions to this site deal with new research, and generally cast it in a positive light. Doesn't all this suggest HN would be more than ordinarily sympathetic to academics, not less?
You know. Really? How? What's the basis for your claim?
I confess I'm having a hard time giving you the benefit of the doubt here.
Three of YCombinator's founders have PhD's from Harvard. A number of other users are graduate students, professors, or researchers in industry, and I've never noticed any animus toward them. A significant fraction of the submissions to this site deal with new research, and generally cast it in a positive light. Doesn't all this suggest HN would be more than ordinarily sympathetic to academics, not less?