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YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by snovv_crash »

kibwen wrote: post #379
immigraway wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Current changes proposed to US immigration policy would cost the country a small number of high-skilled individuals from the Middle East (a few thousand) and a large supply of agricultural workers from Latin America (~10 million). It's a small impact on the overall competitiveness of the US, hardly equivalent to the Nazi brain-drain.

I (U.S. citizen) personally know highly-skilled software engineers who emigrated to the U.S. from Anglosphere countries to work at U.S. companies, who have since resigned and gone back to their home countries explicitly because of Trump's election. These aren't Middle-Easterners or illegal immigrants, these are white people for whom a $200k salary wasn't enough to convince them to endure a rising tide of nationalism.…

Anecdote: I'm a US citizen working in Europe, but I'm not going back to the US until I know with better certainty where the country is going.

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by neptunespear »

ng12 wrote: post #369
neptunespear wrote: post #358

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$600 CAD/month for a bedroom in a house that's close to frequent transit and in a low-crime area isn't hard to find if you don't have your heart set on living right in downtown Vancouver. I am not going to pay $2200/month to live in gangland-torn East Menlo Park.

Do you still live in the 1980's? Belle Haven is not gangland.

The area bordered by US 101, Willow Road and the Union Pacific tracks is an exception. However, the rest of EMP makes Vancouver's Downtown Eastside or even the neighbourhood of Whalley in Surrey look like the most peaceful, crime-free utopia that has ever existed. At least we don't have Nortenos and Surenos blowing each others' heads off like in adjacent East Palo Alto.

Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by chongli »

jimmyk wrote: post #352
trcollinson wrote: post #309

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You make an interesting appeal. I am not sure what you are trying to prove by saying that the poster will "get" it if they just talk to cops, ambulance drivers, and immigration officers. I would assume that you are trying to say they will find that immigrants commit crime (the original poster is speaking to a cop), they get hurt more often (the original poster is speaking to an ambulance driver), and they, now I am r…

>These will all be true regardless of the immigrants status and background. Are you seriously suggesting that immigrants of all backgrounds are equally likely to be beneficial to this country?

I think the point that is really crying out to be made is that college campuses and the backs of ambulances/squad cars are two very biased sets of places to attempt to collect a representative sample of the immigrant population.

In fact, if you were to collect samples of natural born American citizens in the same two sets of places you'd reach the exact same biased conclusions about Americans.

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Post by mcphage »

pizzetta wrote: post #375
nostrademons wrote: post #271

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It did, however, dramatically help the U.S. We got the atom bomb, moon landings, computer, and many other inventions out of European immigrants who fled the Nazis. The U.S. had a strong science program before the war, but its superpower status afterwards was just as much because we got all the brightest minds in Europe as because we bombed everyone else into rubble. I could see Australia, New Zealand, or Canada simil…

It's interesting you bring up warmongering when it looks like some in the opposition party are concerned about the US receding from interventionism and seeking more effort from the other NATO countries. That the US is becoming more isolationist --which would seem to contradict the US becoming more interventionist.

> That the US is becoming more isolationist --which would seem to contradict the US becoming more interventionist.

Trump wants to beef up our military spending—what do you think he's going to do with all that extra hardware?

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Post by neptunespear »

cperciva wrote: post #382

I'm a couple hours late to this thread, but speaking as a long-time member of the HN community and Vancouverite: Welcome! I'm happy to assist YC and/or founders with anything requiring local experience or a local presence. Send me an email.

If you're Colin Percival, I know you from Reddit. You're /u/perciva, right? SFU Senate member, an /r/simonfraser mod.

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Post by bluedino »

bdamm wrote: post #310
chillacy wrote: post #300

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I can confirm based on my Texan friend who voted for Trump that when he sees so many foreign students, he thinks of the potential American students that were "displaced" by them. I put displaced in quotes because it's not true that they could all be backfilled by americans (there are only so many people who graduate with an undergrad degree in EE or Physics each year).

It's a shame American primary education can't turn out enough educated Americans to fill the gap.

Not enough parents aren't pushing the kids to succeed and go on. The schools aren't the problem.

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Post by dragonwriter »

degenerate wrote: post #286
komali2 wrote: post #253

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As a Texan it boggled my mind to hear people complain about immigration. Walk into UT, A&M, UH engineering departments, half the students are Chinese or Russian or Indian. In the grad programs it's even more. That means their best talent is here , paying US taxes, contributing to US companies, making the US more powerful, all the while contributing almost nothing to their home countries. How is that a bad thing! I do…

You might want to take a step outside the academic setting every once in a while. Chat with a cop, ambulance driver, or immigration officer from a sanctuary city if you really want to "get" it. It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry, not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

> Chat with a cop, ambulance driver, or immigration officer from a sanctuary city if you really want to "get" it.

Cities don't have immigration officers (especially sanctuary cities, which are cities that refuse to have their law enforcement act as immigration enforcers for the federal government.)

And local law enforcement is usually the biggest proponent of sanctuary city policies, because their job is made vastly more difficult when immigrant communities see them as immigration enforcers; cooperation with law enforcement in those communities (and not just by undocumented immigrants or even just non-citizens in those communities) drops radically when they are sending in that light.

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Post by pizzetta »

mcphage wrote: post #404
pizzetta wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's interesting you bring up warmongering when it looks like some in the opposition party are concerned about the US receding from interventionism and seeking more effort from the other NATO countries. That the US is becoming more isolationist --which would seem to contradict the US becoming more interventionist.

> That the US is becoming more isolationist --which would seem to contradict the US becoming more interventionist. Trump wants to beef up our military spending—what do you think he's going to do with all that extra hardware?

Modernization? Do you think it's likely he'll be more interventionist than the Obama years? It's hard to imagine that, but of course it's possible, the question is is it likely?

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Post by dang »

GuiA wrote: post #40

The lead the US has had in science/engineering/technology over the past 70+ years is in no small part due to the massive brain drain from Europe, and the rest of the world, due to fascist regimes. If the US's new shiny fascist regime keeps progressing at this pace, you can bet that things will reverse quickly. Good bye, world leading startups, nobel prizes, top universities, etc. These things can happen faster than o…

Would you mind not taking HN threads straight into political flamewar? The mess you set off is totally not in the spirit of this site, and the problems can be traced back to how you posted. Comments on HN need to get more civil and substantive, not less, as the topic gets more divisive.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13830700 and marked it off-topic.

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