I'd guess it will be a harder sell to get software developers in Europe, Australia, NZ, etc. to move to the US.
I'm actually more inclined to move to the US now that Trump has won the presidency. It works both ways, you know.
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Re: Ask HN: POTUS Donald Trump; What this means to Silicon Valley
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Why would he? He's a hardcore Libertarian. His core philosophy is "do good for myself and the world will be better". The only way he'll help anyone else is if their interests happened to be aligned with his. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the guy (barring recent endorsements) but you have to understand where his philosophical basis is.
What you are describing is not libertarianism. Sounds like you are implying he follows ayn rands philosophies. Not the same thing
That's why I use the capital L libertarian. The Ayn Randian type.
Re: Ask HN: POTUS Donald Trump; What this means to Silicon Valley
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would he? He's a hardcore Libertarian. His core philosophy is "do good for myself and the world will be better". The only way he'll help anyone else is if their interests happened to be aligned with his. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of the guy (barring recent endorsements) but you have to understand where his philosophical basis is.
What you are describing is not libertarianism. Sounds like you are implying he follows ayn rands philosophies. Not the same thing
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The UK is part of the west. He's talking about the face of corruption from Russia's point of view.
I'm not actually. It was a reference towards the belief of many but not most that most of the west is dominated by a special political class that strikes underhand and immoral deals which they justify through the claim that they were democratically elected despite not having been elected for anything resembling those actions (often completely ignoring things they were elected for) and despite the process through whic…
Not obvious that Clinton would be better? It is certainly obvious to economists that taxing the increased economic welfare from trade and using it to help workers whose industries move is better than restricting trade. It is obvious to scientists that speeding up the movement from fossil fuels is better for managing Earth's climate than trying to bring back coal. It is obvious to criminologists that community policing is better for managing crime than stop and frisk and adversarial policing. It is obvious to sociologists that allowing gays to marry as they please increases their well-being and allowing women to control their pregnancies decreases poverty and crime. I can't find a single reason why Clinton would be worse.
Re: Ask HN: POTUS Donald Trump; What this means to Silicon Valley
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What you are describing is not libertarianism. Sounds like you are implying he follows ayn rands philosophies. Not the same thing
That's why I use the capital L libertarian. The Ayn Randian type.
Ayn Rand explicitly disavowed libertarianism, both big "L" and small "l". Her political/moral philosophy was Objectivism [0].
The primary focus of libertarianism is the promotion of individual liberty and non-aggression, leaving the individual to become as big (or small) of a philanthropist as she/he wishes, and never being viewed as a lesser libertarian because of their altruism, or lack thereof (in fact, many libertarians I know are very generous people).
Objectivism, on the other hand, specifically condemns altruism and philanthropy, and deems those who engage in altruism to be "bad" people. This is consistent with how Ayn Rand lived her life.
I don't know whether your phrase describing Thiel, "do good for myself and the world will be better", is accurate or not as a description of his personal philosophy (it does make some sense he would follow Rand instead of libertarian philosophy, given his recent activities both political and entreprenerial). But I am quite sure that the phrase is characteristic of Objectivism and not libertarianism (l | L).
Please don't confuse Ayn Rand with libertarianism. Many libertarians despise her writings, back then as in now (and she despised libertarians/Libertarians).
Re: Ask HN: POTUS Donald Trump; What this means to Silicon Valley
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That's actually more than here in France :(
I think this is because of France's progressive income tax rates. In Russia we still have flat scale.
That wouldn't account for all of it, I believe.
E.g. I am making around 35k Euro/annually, before taxes. That is with 15 years of experience, with a university degree & a PHD in comp. science. And that is not at all rare if you are not in finances or machine learning (or whatever is the fad du jour at the moment) where the salaries are very high. But even there 50-70k+ are not that common. And, of course, my living costs are likely quite a bit higher than yours (well, perhaps except for large cities like Moscow).
UK is similar unless you are working for the London City bankers - I have been interviewing few years ago for a position with a big company there and they have actually offered me even less than what I am making now after taking into account higher costs of living in the UK.
Actually the French taxes aren't that high, the killer are the extra expenses that the employer has to pay for each employee - social & health insurance, various solidarity contributions, etc. I am costing my employer about 2x as much as what I am actually taking home. From that I still have to pay taxes, which are about one and a half of my monthly salary in total (the French pay taxes themselves for the previous year, unlike most of Europe where the tax is deducted from salary already and you only get a return if you paid too much).
Re: Ask HN: POTUS Donald Trump; What this means to Silicon Valley
#148With the GOP controlling both Congress and the Presidency, and a luddite POTUS, encryption, digital privacy, and net neutrality are all in danger.
How are these things in danger NOW? Did you sleep through the whole Snowden incident, and everything Assange published in the past decade? Trump can’t take away what you don’t already have.
We've certainly lost some of these things, but we're about to lose all the rest.
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Wow, hah! Aims pointopoint microwave link at NZ (if only... they don't work that far away :P)
Too much signal loss from pointing your antenna at the ground, I'm afraid.
It took me a while to get this (the fact that I won't be able to set up on a mountain high enough); you unfortunately make a really good point.
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Actually it will be easier. I was very worried about a Clinton, but with Trump I hope for more legality and fairness in the processes. And the visa caps may get raised, so less cheap workers will flood the quotas, and more good devs will have a chance. The Trump bashing in Europe was evil though. As they preferred to have another criminal presidency, with enough leverage on them to blackmail them on everything. As it…
So you elected a politically inexperienced criminal instead. Brilliant.
as opposed to the politically experienced criminal?