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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 run4yourlives2 »

rocky1138 wrote: post #123
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…

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

Nothing wrong with KW, but compared to Vancouver?

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Post by chetanahuja »

icantdrive55 wrote: post #611
galdosdi wrote: post #598

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If the bay area continues its absurd aversion to adding housing or transportation, some other cities are definitely going to eventually pick off all the jobs till the bay area looks like Detroit or 1970s New York. You can stay #1 just by already being #1, exploiting the chicken-and-egg problem, for a while, but not forever.

San Francisco provided good jobs way before the tech revolution. I would bet they had better union jobs before tech moved in. You could always live in the outlying areas to commute, and not spend all your money on rent. Tech bosses decided they liked San Francisco, and the rich enclaves like Marin County. They decided to set up shop, and hire like no tomorrow. I have never seen more money just thrown away, except in…

> Tech bosses decided they liked San Francisco, and the rich enclaves like Marin County.

What sort of delusional rant is this? Marin county is now the hotbed of tech startups?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

jonny_eh wrote: post #627
nickparker wrote: post #610

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This is only true if you're right up on the Peninsula. The South Bay area where YC is located is gorgeous for a huge fraction of the year, and the East bay is at least far less cold than downtown SF.

Even the Peninsula (e.g. San Mateo or Redwood City) is significantly better weather wise compared to SF.

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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 timthelion »

ddebernardy wrote: post #609
Mythanar wrote: post #190

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Dublin? Sure. Amsterdam - if you believe you can grow decent startup scene in location with 52% income taxes and 1.2% wealth tax and 21% VAT, I have a bridge to sell you. Silicon Valley happened before the tax madness, and there is now net wealth outflow to lower-tax locations.

An one who lives in Hungary at the moment, I'd trade this country for Amsterdam any day from a tax standpoint - but admittedly wouldn't go there either way because their extreme right wingers are on par with Jobbik. It's a matter of reference points I suppose. Surely the land of Donald Trump is somehow better? Or not... /troll

I'm confused, are you claiming that Amsterdam has more right wingers than Hungary? Perhaps this is a case of media distortion. My Czech and English language media tells me that Hungary is currently the 4th Reich.

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

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Post by timthelion »

throw_away_777 wrote: post #350
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…

US citizens pay taxes, contribute to US companies and make the US more powerful. US citizens also contribute a higher percentage of their income to local communities than immigrants do. It is a myth that their is an infinite supply of jobs, and that supply/demand somehow doesn't apply to immigration. You aren't really making an argument either.

If your supply/demand argument works, then why is rural Europe suffering from long term unemployment when European cities long-term have more open positions than unemployed? Why is it, that in southern siberia, where there is massive mining and forestry industry, there is also massive unemployment and people move cross continent to Moscow to find work, despite the fact that Moscow has almost no real industry.

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Post by timthelion »

nradov wrote: post #524
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…

Some of the major postwar US innovations — particularly in the space program — came not from European immigrants who fled the Nazis but rather from German immigrants who were the Nazis. US intelligence services brought them here through Operation Paperclip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

It just goes to show that Aryans might really be smarter...

But that's still no excuse for genocide, segregation, and treating people like shit.

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Post by acchow »

swsieber wrote: post #707
acchow wrote: post #649

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I'm 95% sure that's not how the earth's orbit works. Sure, further from the equator makes your days shorter in the winter, but they're longer during the summer. It's awash.

It is a wash, but judging from the comments the heavy rains/gloom come in the winter... so it could be a real explaination.

Actually, just the opposite. If most of the cloud cover/gloomy weather happened in the winter, then much of the clouds would be at night...which wouldn't dramatically reduce your sunshine hours.

If the gloominess happened during long days, you'd really see a drop in mean sunshine hours.

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

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Post by K0SM0S »

miraj wrote: post #83
chollida1 wrote: post #8

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The Canadian visa might sound appealing at first blush but won't help for ycombinator founders as far as I know. To be eligible you need to have funding from a canadian venture fund, see below. I guess ycombinator could setup a Canadian fund and apply for the funding eligibility, but with the principles being mostly American and living in the US, I'm guessing it would be a very tough sell. http://www.cic.gc.ca/englis…

actually Canada just announced another visa pilot program for temporary workers i.e. "Global Talent": "Canada to make skilled-worker permits easier to get in wake of U.S. delays" https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canada-t...

They're moving damn fast about it. Protests and Moby's posts are one thing, but when an administration/state gets involved, and more importantly when money is put on the table, you can tell things are happening. I don't how far this'll go, but I wouldn't be surprised if some places relatively 'close' to SF/Bay (say from Vancouver to perhaps Mexico) became sort of a surburb for less-demanding offices (think: grade A workers/projects in SF/Bay, everything else remotely to save costs and troubles with US immigration).
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