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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 justin66 »

adventured wrote: post #745
justin66 wrote: post #651

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Well, the relevant comparison is to the San Francisco Bay Area...

It's not even remotely close. Vancouver: 160+ rainy days per year San Francisco: ~50-60 would be typical (with 250+ sunny days per year). It had 66 rainy days last year for example. And just 42 in 2013.

I moved out to San Francisco during a historic El Nino season so I'm sure my perception is a little warped, but I'd note that you're providing a lot more detail about one than the other, and no citations. Not that any of this matters.

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Post by discombobulate »

redditmigrant wrote: post #752
discombobulate wrote: post #153

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Have all Muslims been banned from the US? I thought it was only a set of countries draw up by Obama. Edit: Words are hard! Edit2: Yes, downvote me & upvote the hyperbole. Welcome to the post-fact world. All Muslims are banned. Trump is Hitler. The stock market's going to crash. Anyone right of Obama is racist scum who should lose their job. Etc.

Whats the rationale for banning even one? Were there any actual threats? There were certainly no attacks by immigrants/refugees from those countries. According to you we should wait for things to reach peak bigotry before reacting. Would you have the same "oh no big deal" reaction if a single Christian country was banned mainly for being christian?

I don't think it's necessary to exaggerate the facts of the matter to argue against the policy.

If anything, a falsehood weakens the position of the person making the argument. It's easier to defend the truth. It's more robust.

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

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Post by biafra »

jpttsn wrote: post #784
mikeash wrote: post #777

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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.

The reason they usually do not tell you is that cell networks on the ground do not handle phones well that are visible in too many wide spread out cell towers.

If planes were in danger because of turned on phones they would check for them much more thoroughly and also check lugagge for turned on phones.

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Post by bermanoid »

esrauch wrote: post #620
pragone wrote: post #594

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I did grow up on the east coast, and have, so far, lived my whole life here. I would never describe the summers as "hellish" nor the winters as "ball-shriveling". I thoroughly enjoy the tremendous variety through all the seasons. I would say there isn't "1 week of pleasant weather", but rather, a year of tremendously varying, enjoyable weather. But, of course, that's sort of the point - to each their own.

I think he meant NY or New England when he said East Coast. North Carolina doesn't fit that pattern of having consistent 0°F to 105°F range every year.

Yep, I did. Should have been a bit more specific.

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Post by ZoeZoeBee »

brianwawok wrote: post #647
samfisher83 wrote: post #601

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SF weather isn't that great. It cold and foggy. Socal has much better weather, but it isn't silicon valley.

I laugh at your cold weather and point to Chicago

5 months out of the year the average high in Chicago is above 70, SF only in September. I'll take 4 months of cold to 12 months of never warm

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Post by kolbe »

komali2 wrote: post #518
kolbe wrote: post #501

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I'm sure Cali would be able to leave, they just wouldn't be able to take their assets with them.

Outside oil and crops, California assets are people, yea? Engineers.

sure. you keep the engineers, we'll add all of the stock owned by Californian's in US companies to the Fed's balance sheet. We'll keep the infrastructure and apply tolls liberally. Obviously National Park/Forrest and even state parks will stay. You can visit for a fee, of course.

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

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Post by kafkaesq »

cscurmudgeon wrote: post #799
TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #792

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Is the problem that the US has been doing it? I would argue that, with the internet, massively increased global communication, and a massively different economy from 1853 when the Perry expedition occurred, the problem isn't that the US used to do it long ago when imperialism was the norm, but rather that this form of globalist capitalism is becoming the norm worldwide, to the detriment of the lower and middle classe…

There are winners and losers but overall economists agree free trade is good. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/tafjeduce/v_3a34_3ay_3a2... In any trade system, there will be losers.

Do they, now? From the abstract we only read that (according to the authors) there is some kind of consensus:

Consensus is particularly strong for propositions of free international trade and capital flows.

But as to what that consensus (in particular, as to whether the effects of free trade are "good", "bad", or "mixed") -- we would need to dig into the full text of the article, which is available only to subscribers.

And anyway that "consensus" was from 2003, and a lot has shifted in the universe since then -- particularly in regard to the question of whether free trade is still a pretty neat idea, or not.

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Post by throwaway743824 »

ghaff wrote: post #797
throwaway743824 wrote: post #793

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I don't see how that is adding anything to the discussion. If you want to be the leader you actually have to lead. You have to be the one that figures out "the future" and have the solution people didn't know they wanted before other people do. The "perks" of mobile payments should be fairly obvious to anyone who has experienced it, I suspect you and the parent just aren't one of those people. No one is going to stop…

My (admittedly snarky) point was that there are clear differences between countries in their preferences for payment systems that can't be chalked up to "dysfunctional infrastructure." And it's not a US vs. rest of world thing. Even across Europe there are clear differences in cash vs. debit card vs. credit card vs. etc. acceptance. And stored value cards (for use outside of transit systems) seems mostly to be an Asi…

Something like WeChat really isn't like cards though. It's more like cash, cards and bank transfers in one. Like if most everyone would accept Paypal for everything without fees and it was integrated everywhere (web, store, phone, chat etc).

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

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Post by cscurmudgeon »

kafkaesq wrote: post #808
cscurmudgeon wrote: post #799

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There are winners and losers but overall economists agree free trade is good. http://econpapers.repec.org/article/tafjeduce/v_3a34_3ay_3a2... In any trade system, there will be losers.

Do they, now? From the abstract we only read that (according to the authors) there is some kind of consensus: Consensus is particularly strong for propositions of free international trade and capital flows. But as to what that consensus (in particular, as to whether the effects of free trade are "good", "bad", or "mixed") -- we would need to dig into the full text of the article, which is available only to subscriber…

Do you have better more recent studies? Will gladly take it.
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