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

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Post by bbarn »

dragonwriter wrote: post #480
mehaveaccount wrote: post #214

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Calexit would allow California to bring in anyone they want though, and SF wouldn't have to worry about the US immigration policy screwing up it's tech scene. I'm looking forward to the Calexit proposition vote.

> Calexit would allow California to bring in anyone they want though In the same way that secession allowed the Confederacy to do that. The US has no equivalent of the EU's Article 50, and until it does, "Calexit" means a war that California is in no position to win.

Well, the thing about laws, is if a state decides it isn't bound by them and secedes, who enforces them? I can't see any soldier being willing to go to war with California. We've been taught the horror of civil war since we were in grade school. This generation is also much more open to new ideas in the world than those of the past. If California seceded, it would meet very little physical resistance I suspect.

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Post by svsjc »

We need technologies which will make location unimportant.

With virtual reality, 4k HD conferencing and network bandwidth which can support both.

California taxes and real estate prices in SV will make more businesses move to Texas and other states where there is little or no income taxes.

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Post by bbarn »

komali2 wrote: post #284
mehaveaccount wrote: post #214

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Calexit would allow California to bring in anyone they want though, and SF wouldn't have to worry about the US immigration policy screwing up it's tech scene. I'm looking forward to the Calexit proposition vote.

The obvious question is will the US government allow one of its most profitable states to leave? Highly doubtful. Great way to start another civil war, though!

The better question is would the rest of the world allow the remaining US to do a damn thing about it? The US itself has a history of supporting states that leave other states in civil wars.

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Post by muhfuhkuh »

muninn_ wrote: post #683
jacquesm wrote: post #668

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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…

It's not impossible to impeach somebody.

It's like people don't remember that there was a president that called a press conference, spoke to the people, put on a jacket, got in a helicopter, and flew away from the White House forever.

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Post by dragonwriter »

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.

Sanctuary cities are absolutely protected under the Constitutional doctrine of anti-commandeering; a direct and obvious and firmly established application of the Tenth Amendment.

The Federal government has to enforce its own laws. The States may voluntarily assist, but the Federal government has no authority to mandate that states, or subdivisions thereof, enforce federal laws.

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Post by dragonwriter »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #665
fixxer wrote: post #512

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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 t…

> and in other G7 countries your Democratic party would barely be considered "left" let alone "far left", so yeah, pretty lunatic.

True, the Democratic Party is basically a coalition where the two main factions are the dominant center-right neoliberal faction (the "Third Way" that reached its peak under Bill Clinton and his since lost some ground in the party while still remaining dominant, if barely so) and the secondary center-left progressive faction.

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Post by titanomachy »

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.

People definitely play beach volleyball in Vancouver in May. Maybe they are just insane. But some days are much warmer than 17C, and when it's sunny the air temperature doesn't matter that much.

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Post by wbl »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The fact that SF buildings are poorly insulated doesn't help.

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Post by wapz »

pascalxus wrote: post #498
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.

But, this could also be quite positive for the bay area. By reducing the number of jobs, It might finally provide the housing relief the bay area so desperately needs.

Truthfully, I think it will just spread more in the bay area. You have all the talent concentrated and you have people commuting far each way. Companies can just start popping up in concord, vallejo, and gilroy (just random examples. I have no clue how much real estate cost there) because it would be easy to get talent from the bay area and might shorten commute for some.

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Post by robotpony »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #159
sremani wrote: post #12

May be this is a dumb question, I will ask it anyway, Tijuana Mexico is about 500 miles from Bay Area, where as Vancouver Canada is 1000 miles. Que Canada?

Other than the language barrier? I imagine its terrible crime problem is a mark against it as well. It had 100+ more murders than often-cited Chicago last year with 1/3rd the population of Chicago! Also at $15,000 GDP per capita, its not exactly a wealthy place. Vancouver chimes it at 3x that and had all of one murder last year.

Vancouver had more like 12 murders last year (http://vancouver.ca/police/Planning/2016YED.pdf).
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