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

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Post by uiri »

rdl wrote: post #686
Eridrus wrote: post #175

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I feel like YC, with it's long record would have an easier time attracting capital than an individual startup.

Canadian YC alums alone would be more than sufficient to provide the capital for this, if necessary.

I don't think that it has anything to do with there not being enough capital available in Canada but rather the risk tolerance of most Canadian investors.

I wouldn't be surprised if those YC alumni were hesitant to make more bets on the startup roulette wheel. I'm not saying that venture capital/angel investing is gambling per se but most Canadians, even past startup founders, probably see it that way.

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Post by ZoeZoeBee »

mantas wrote: post #741
acchow wrote: post #653

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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.

16c is almost tshirt weather in northern europe, which is about same latitude as Vancouver. This would pass as a colder summer day too. No rain = beach :) Everybody's perspective is different...

60 Farenheit is not T-Shirt Weather, it certainly is not beach weather, that's cold for a high. As far as the latitude that's fairly irrelevant thanks to the Atlantic Drift, Great Britain is at the same latitude as Southern Alaska though their climate is quite different

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Post by muninn_ »

JamilD wrote: post #776
muninn_ wrote: post #766

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Sure and I love that those people (highly skilled immigrants) are working for American companies. But so what? That doesn't demonstrate that the US doesn't have enough talent. It just shows that some people from out of the country were working on something. Maybe if the situation was different then that paper could be exclusively written be Americans. The majority of the worlds most intelligent people reside elsewher…

Let me end off by saying there's a difference between being "fine" and "exceptional". If you're content with the former, then that's okay, no problem there -- cutting off immigration will be okay. America will survive, there won't be an apocalypse. Like Japan right now -- it's got mediocre companies with a mediocre economy. Many papers are written exclusively by Americans, but they're often not the best. That's what…

Yeah so you're agreeing with what I said earlier. It's not desirable by any means, but not the end of the world. That's all I wanted to point out lol.

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Post by jpttsn »

mikeash wrote: post #777
jpttsn wrote: post #747

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Not at all, but I don't trust Rudy Giuliani. There seems to be agreement that this administration lies in a new and blatant way. I want to stop taking their word for things across the board. Part of that is not trusting their admissions of "guilt", the same way that I don't trust their admissions of "innocence".

They do sometimes tell the truth. Their animosity towards Muslims seems to be real, not a lie. There seems to be no other adequate explanation for the travel ban (the people who would push it as a rational security measure would also have been smarter about it) so I think this is a case where they can be believed.

I think the travel ban could serve any number of non-obvious political purposes. A show of power? A distraction from less unusual political changes? A way to get press (albeit negative)? A way to decrease overall immigration? Security theater?

Airline stewards want me to turn off my cellphone. I can't think of a good reason, but that doesn't mean I'll believe the reason they state, when it makes no sense.

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Post by aaron-lebo »

rljy wrote: post #778
aaron-lebo wrote: post #765

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The US obviously isn't perfect. It has a very sordid past. It's just that it's sordid past isn't any worse than others (this is a human problem) and at its best it does stand for something - continual progress. You are also absolutely incorrect on numbers of Native Americans or blacks killed vs the Nazi actions. The Nazis killed tens of millions systematically, not even counting incidental casualties. The Native Amer…

I'll start with the following quote: """ Himmler - "Reduce Deaths at all Costs" Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Concentration Camps issued orders on December 28, 1942, that "The death rate in the concentration camps must be reduced at all costs" (Reitlinger, "The Final Solution"). The camps had been hit with a deadly typhus epidemic that spread by fleas and body lice. Stomach pain, high fever, emaciation and death can…

What's he point of Himmler's quote? He wanted to reduce deaths in a system in which the end goal was extermination?

I agree with you that there are instances where Europeans wiped out natives and even where that was the mindset. The fact remains that the majority of Native Americans did not die due to systematic extermination. It is indisputable.

The US had done bad things, but every single culture in the world has done evil things. That is human nature. Many native tribes engaged in torture and regular warfare of their own. The only thing we can do is learn from it and the only way to do it is being objective about history, not engaging in exaggeration.

Can you get more genocidal than that? Can you find a Hitler quote, from before the start of WWII that comes close to that?

Mein Kampf?

Hopefully when Trump does not become Hitler 2.0 you will admit you were wrong.

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Post by startupdiscuss »

smsm42 wrote: post #623
startupdiscuss wrote: post #522

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This is just misinformation. There are many jews living and working in Dubai. It is true that Israeli passports are not allowed. But that is the point of multiple sites. Perhaps Cambodia would have been a better choice.

> it is true that Israeli passports are not allowed So not misinformation. And not only Israeli passports but any having Israeli citizenship even if they use another passport, and anybody who has Israeli stamp in their passport, isn't it?

One is a country, and the other is a religion.

No, the "stamp rule" was never a rule, and it has long since been clarified that stamps are fine. Please do some googling before you get into disputes.

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Post by ghaff »

throwaway743824 wrote: post #771
hueving wrote: post #657

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>That's just an example that i find interesting enough, that quite a few US companies tried to solve, but still have a long way to go. Because it's not a technical problem. Nobody cares about the ability to pay with their phone in the US when a credit card works so well and doesn't have a battery that dies. Android and Apple pay work perfectly fine but almost nobody in my tech circles feels the urge to use them, let…

Spoken as the incumbent. Of course it's a technical problem, as least as much as other SV companies. Hard tech hasn't been the edge for SV for many decades and it's getting even less important today. All the big companies has tried to tackle payments, but with lackluster results. What's "perfectly fine" for the US isn't in most of the rest of the world. Some of the more prominent startups in the UK, Germany and Swede…

It's almost as if different places have different cultures, social norms, and ways of doing things. Nah. That couldn't be it.

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #780
kafkaesq wrote: post #469

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The thing to note here is that this response from YC is not a political one, Indeed. It wasn't formulated as political -- but the intrinsically the move does have significant political import (as a form of "voting with one's feet", as it were). Which has the potential to send signals that signs, slogans and marches (alone) cannot.

A large reason many people are pushing back against globalism is _because_ of this thinking -- capitalism is blind to political movements, quality of life for its people, or growing inequality. All that matters is the bottom line. If it's cheaper to do it elsewhere, it will move there. But if this leads to yet continued wealth inequality while the laborers work for less in worse conditions, is it a good thing that it…

The problem is that it is the US that has been forcing this down on other countries for decades if not centuries. And the US society benefited a lot from this.

Read up on the Perry expedition.

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Post by __derek__ »

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.

> 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

At base, this is an expression of YC's disagreement with the Administration's positions on immigration. It's saying that the imposition of even more onerous visa restrictions is misguided because it prevents from entering people who would make valuable contributions to American society. That is political.

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Post by randiantech »

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.

I would believe this is not political if YC would have done this in the past. Its not that Visa issues to enter US is something brought by Trump administration. In any case, I celebrate the decision.
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