Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities • Hacker News Board

Re: Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities

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Post by jimjansen » Tue, Nov 06, 2018, 4:45 PM UTC

spookthesunset wrote: post #181

yourbandsucks wrote: post #173

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Choosing based on culture wars is buying into the bullshit. Gay marriage, for example, is federally protected. We need to fix the culture divide in this country. Let's work from places where we agree rather than searching for disagreement. Lots of states are near the tipping point if we could only speak to each other honestly.

> Choosing based on culture wars is buying into the bullshit. It is absolutely not bullshit. I would flat out refuse to relocate to a red state. In the high tech industry, I'm not alone. Setting up shop in a deep red state is not a good way to attract world class talent from across the globe. > Gay marriage, for example, is federally protected. Small comfort when you are gay and wish to find a safe place to hang out…

>In my opinion this is not gonna happen any time soon.

Certainly not when there's so many people like you with bizarre black and white visions of the world.

Re: Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities

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Post by stevenwoo » Tue, Nov 06, 2018, 8:07 PM UTC

bradchris wrote: post #61

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Ft. Worth, right next door, is not though. I don't see this happening, by the way. Abbott is up by 15-20 points in the polls this year. And Texas is just different, culturally, than these other states. You can have your LGBTQ anti-discrimination and TX still remain red, BTW. They're not mutually exclusive.

Fort Worth is the largest non-Democratic city in all of the US, yes, but if you also look at every election you can see it too is turning bluer and bluer. Also, the government race is not a good indicator. Lupe Valdez has made mistake after mistake in her campaign — I’m liberal, and even I wasn’t enthusiastic about voting for her. She’s doing so bad that she’s polling less than the percentage of registered Democrats…

Voter suppression is surprisingly open, there were two cases just this morning of poll workers verbally abusing black voters in Austin and Houston to discourage them from voting. The generation raised with segregation has a few decades left to influence things. Also Texas might be the hardest place in the United States to register for new voters - so even demographic changes could take decades to work there way through.

Re: Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities

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Post by saghm » Wed, Nov 07, 2018, 2:11 AM UTC

jeffbax wrote: post #230

saghm wrote: post #165

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Similarly, Massachusetts currently has a Republican governor, and it's certainly not a red state

Who surprisingly has the highest approval rating in the country, even higher than Warren.

From my experience living in Massachusetts, it's not all that surprising! There are plenty of Republicans in Massachusetts who are successful politically; they just tend not to be as conservative as Republicans from other parts of the country.

Re: Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities

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Post by mxuribe » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 6:27 PM UTC

philsnow wrote: post #87

mxuribe wrote: post #69

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Sure, some business have multiple "HQs"...in that they split where some of their major divisions are "headquartered". For example, maybe the original HQ in Seattle is where Jeff B. sits, but maybe the crystal city HQ (if that's one of them) is where AWS - as a business/major division - is "headquartered", etc. Oh, and i would venture a guess that they likely will name them something like HQ1, HQ-East-1, HQ-West-1, HQ…

with certain AMZN HQ services[0] only available in HQ1 / HQ-NorthWest-1 [0] like AMZN GetPromoted or AMZN WorkOnTheProjectYouWant

My dayjob employer is currently kicking off a 150-year project to validate whether the AMZN GetPromoted service is worthwhile to eventually implement internally. But, alas, already there are project delays. ;-)