Sorry, are they just conducting interviews in Van or actually running a cohort there?
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
#722If 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.
So all in all it's a good thing for everyone but Silicon Valley, suddenly bright people will stop clumbin in SF but start working, paying taxes and spending their money back home. They will not need to move to a different country and keep their social net, etc.
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#723Great founders and technologists are an amazing asset to US, we'd be lucky to have them.
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#724If 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.
Been hearing this since late nineties about how inability to get visas is going to be the death of US tech industry. Absolutely nothing has changed since h1b visa was initially implemented, its almost exactly the same when as it was conceived. And yet U.S tech industry is not dead.
In the late 90's working remotely wasn't a thing for most of us.
Nowadays it is pretty common in any major corporation, and has opened the door for offshoring all sorts of projects.
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#725A friend of mine runs a large, well known webdev agency in India and is attending a conference in Arizona in April. His friend was planning to come as well - he owns a US based business, has a US bank account, pays US taxes, has purchased airfare, hotel, and conference tickets. He was denied a US visa because "attending a conference is not a good enough reason". My friend with the agency who has a visa is concerned h…
What's the conference? (Arizona webdev here)
PressNomics
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#726If 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.
So all in all it's a good thing for everyone but Silicon Valley, suddenly bright people will stop clumbin in SF but start working, paying taxes and spending their money back home. They will not need to move to a different country and keep their social net, etc.
This was the illusory hope of many of us in the beginning of the IT revolution. Work from anywhere, connected with everybody and the equal distribution of wealth.
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#727May 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?
Going to 'Diet USA' is likely more seamless and convenient. I lived in Canada for several years and I honestly think that's a good description for it, you cannot really tell whether you are in Michigan or Ontario if you don't look at the road signs.
I'm a Canadian who lived and worked in the US for six years, and my impression on returning home is that Canada is the country you'd get if you took the U.S. and removed the extremes of wealth and poverty.
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#728Earlier quoted context omitted.
> International borders fall under federal jurisdiction, so I don't think your point is as strong as you think, Sanctuary cities don't change anything about international borders or who can enter the country, because international borders are federal issues with federal staff. Sanctuary cities refuse to make their local staff spend time and money reporting on immigration status every time they issue a parking ticket.…
I think you have a valid point. I do, however, think sanctuary cities (which are so fuzzily defined legally...) create an incentive for illegal immigration. It sends a message that one need only get through the border to make it permanent. My family immigrated legally. They should too. If states choose not to enforce federal law, I think they need to clearly establish a legal position as to why.
There is one, it's called the anti-commandeering doctrine (no idea what this site is but it covers the background) http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/12/28/states-dont-have-...
Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
#729Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might not mean war if the country itself has given up on sticking it out. Maybe it'll be an ugly divorce instead.
It would be a war within California. The Central Valley isn't going to willingly leave the U.S. to be ruled by what they see as liberal coastal elites with no counterweight. And because of that (and the leverage the central government would have because of that), there'll be no peaceful divorce of California from the Union.
The simple solution is to let the eastern part of California stay in the union. The western part suceeds.
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#730Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Blackcomb is open until late may, and then also has a summer season. (glacier)
Vancouver does get a lot of concentrated rain, but summers are sunnier than most cities in North America. 90% of that 1900 hours is between June and September.