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

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Post by 27hours »

guelo wrote: post #373
immigraway wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is fear-mongering. The Trump administration has said nothing to indicate it will seek to cut research funding, and much to suggest that it seeks to increase it (e.g. a Mars program).

Trump's early budget proposal includes huge cuts to research budgets at NOAA, NASA, EPA, US Geological Survey, Interior Department and the Department of Energy. There's a reason scientists are freaking out and are planning a march on washington https://www.marchforscience.com/

How does cutting funding for non-producing government agencies listed above affect the phd students and research being done at colleges? Care to explain?

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

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Post by edblarney »

ddebernardy wrote: post #118

In light of recent events [0], there's a non-zero chance that some founders out there would rather avoid going to the US at all - if only to protest with their wallet. It might be more sensible to open a second incubator in the EU. Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, Barcelona, there are plenty of options. (London is a good choice on paper too but pray tell what'll happen after Brexit.) [0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/new…

"If only to protest with their wallet."

Except that 'the wallet' is in the US, not somewhere else.

I say this even as a Canadian. The money is not here.

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

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Post by edblarney »

grigory wrote: post #202
rocky1138 wrote: post #123

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Why not Waterloo? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/kitchener-waterloo...

Having spent a few years in KW, I have a feeling it might be difficult to convince people to move there.

This is a stark reality.

For a Canadian, Waterloo might be ok.

For most Americans, it would be like moving to Alaska.

I tried to hire into Waterloo, and for Americans, Canada in general is a really tough sell.

We brought in some Americans, most of them kept their homes in wherever.

We hired a bunch and let them live wherever, they flew in every few weeks.

It was far less than ideal.

That said, it might be better than many places in the US - but this is where California has such a massive advantage.

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

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Post by adamiscool8 »

acchow wrote: post #653
cperciva wrote: post #602

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Ski in the morning and play beach volleyball in the afternoon? What month of the year? Whistler-blackcomb tops out at only 8000ft. March or April. We've had an exceptionally harsh winter this year (snow on the ground in Vancouver for weeks on end -- happens about once a decade) but usually around now people are admiring the cherry blossoms on their way to the beach. Whistler/Blackcomb has a perfectly skiable alpine t…

Ok, but even in May average high in Vancouver is 16.7C, average low of 8.8C. That's hardly beach volleyball weather. I'm skeptical of the claim that people ski in the morning and play beach volleyball in the afternoon...maybe one or two lucky days a year? These are exactly the temperatures tons of people in this thread are saying is cold when referring to San Francisco. They actually correspond with March in SF.

When people arrive in Vancouver, we rewire their hypothalamus with wildly lower expectations for what constitutes "amazing weather".

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

fixxer wrote: post #512
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #508

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Only in the US could middle of the road Keynesian economics with a touch of social liberalism be called "far left" Good grief.

The flip side of that sentiment is calling fascism on anyone who thinks sanctuary cities are bullshit. The lunacy is bipartisan.

Your US 2 party system is busted to the extreme, and in other G7 countries your Democratic party would barely be considered "left" let alone "far left", so yeah, pretty lunatic.

As for sanctuary cities, when your state is sitting on territory that was formerly part of Mexico, its major cities still carrying Spanish names, its labour force overwhelmingly dominated by Latinos, it doesn't seem crazy at all to question the rationale of the US immigration system and borders and try to accomodate to the realities of the actual real world demographics.

Not to mention from my understanding sanctuary cities have their origin with the migrant fallout created by the central American wars that the United States was directly involved in.

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Post by 27hours »

mikeash wrote: post #183
ruleabidinguser wrote: post #162

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Which countries do people suspect might be banned? I don't really expect any more than already have been.

Given that this was the administration's attempt to implement a ban on Muslims entering the country, I'd expect it to be expanded to more predominantly Muslim countries if the courts don't completely smack it down and the administration survives long enough. And beyond that, who knows? When insane people are in power, anything is possible. Maybe some big attack is carried out by a radicalized Muslim from France or Sw…

May be he knows something which you don't or are purposefully trying to look away from. Look at these below, that is what he is trying to avoid. People's lives and our country are more important than few startups.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/20/trump-may-have-be... (Look at the Facebook post by police officer from Sweden)

http://www.truthjustice.net/politics/immigrant-crime-rates-i...

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/21/ten-topics-sweden...

http://www.zerohedge.com/search/apachesolr_search/police%20o... (Long list here)

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Post by thinkloop »

acchow wrote: post #537
curiousfiddler wrote: post #448

If you don't provide opportunity and a good civil environment to brilliant/enterprising people, they will find a way elsewhere. And once Vancouver or any other city starts working for them, Silicon Valley will lose its exclusivity. The thing to note here is that this response from YC is not a political one, but a response that came out of market demand; it is pretty significant if it works out.

How will Vancouver improve its weather? California has a powerful draw...

Canada has lower corporate tax, liberal startup grants, greater income mobility, higher qol, health care, safer, more tolerance - but it's an itsy bitsy tad cold, no one goes.

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Post by jacquesm »

muninn_ wrote: post #656
jacquesm wrote: post #198

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> Excluding thermonuclear war, if things get annoying enough we'll just elect a democrat next year and restore the political arena that people believe is best. Most likely not next year.

The way Trump has been acting? We'll see.

No. We won't. It's a constitutional impossibility for the American government to 'fall' outside of a revolution. The only thing that will happen is that two years from now there will be elections but not for president. I consider the fact that the government can't fall to be a bug in the US political system but it's not even the biggest one.

For all the reverence the 'founding fathers' get they could have done a much better job setting things up. America got rid of royalty, then brought it back in by electing them, and not in a ceremonial function either. It's a huge problem (that, and the 'two party system').

Technically the two party system could change but things are set up in such a way that no third party will ever gather enough votes even if you were to say pit two un-electables against each other.

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Post by allendoerfer »

acchow wrote: post #580
mck- wrote: post #576

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Weather here is amazing! Vancouver has such a bad rep when it comes to rain, but honestly it's not that bad. Here's what it's really like: Between May and October, basically half of the year, you'll have very comfortable T-shirt weather, and blue skies I'd say 70% of the time! Between December and March it's gloomy, but you'll have awesome snow in the mountains, just 30 min from downtown :) from our office we can see…

Ski in the morning and play beach volleyball in the afternoon? What month of the year? Whistler-blackcomb tops out at only 8000ft. Vancouver gets 1900 hours of sunlight a year. That's not a lot. Compare to Seattle (which is considered gloomy) at 2170 hours and SF at 3000 hours.

> Vancouver gets 1900 hours of sunlight a year. That's not a lot. Compare to Seattle (which is considered gloomy) at 2170 hours and SF at 3000 hours.

Are you talking about sunlight or sunshine? I think these are different. The city where I live gets apparently between 1500 and 1800 hours of sunshine, is a bit South of Vancouver (but in Europe) and not particularly known for not being sunny. So the amount of sunshine could actually increase for immigrants, not coming from California.

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Post by interlocutor »

curiousfiddler wrote: post #448

If you don't provide opportunity and a good civil environment to brilliant/enterprising people, they will find a way elsewhere. And once Vancouver or any other city starts working for them, Silicon Valley will lose its exclusivity. The thing to note here is that this response from YC is not a political one, but a response that came out of market demand; it is pretty significant if it works out.

Microsoft and Amazon already station employees who can't get a US work visa in Vancouver, Canada: https://www.quora.com/I-am-placed-in-Microsoft-US-and-am-una...
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