As usual, the Onion nails it...
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Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Student debt is harder to discharge than other debts. You cant even discharge it through bankruptcy. One reason this was done was to reduce interest rates.
> You cant even discharge it through bankruptcy. And why do you think that is? Once you get an "education", you can't exactly have another company repossess that from you. Not being able to remove your student debt by going through bankruptcy is a positive thing .
> Once you get an "education", you can't exactly have another company repossess that from you.
That's true of all unsecured debt (hence, “unsecured”), not a special feature of education debt that justifies treatment different than general unsecured debt.
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#223Hope all you want, but a good half+ of the HQ2 hires will be minorities. Not a lot of minorities want to live in a deep south or Texas region due to racism, stand-your-ground, etc. Same thing for gays. If you want to hope for diverse knowledge businesses opening in Dallas, perhaps start with pushing for equality. I can think of a thousand examples, but here is the latest: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/us/dallas-…
As a trans woman who has lived in Dallas all her life, I agree.
There is a lot I love about Dallas, but with the state government trying to shove bathroom bills down our throats (the only reason it failed last time was because Joe Straus was a hero and sacrificed his career), I can't stay here. I've been considering a move to Las Vegas for some time now, and I'm getting closer to pulling the trigger on it.
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
But they won't be. Can you imagine Amazon hiring 25k employees for just one project like Alexa? Also, the whole point of the new offices is to aid recruitment. Limiting particular offices to just one skillset goes totally against that. No, these offices will be smaller than the Seattle HQ, but at half the size, you can expect them to be quite diverse. They will not be a "single project" office.
Actually, there's already ~10k people working on Alexa
Manual QA is a bitch.
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#225> Long Island City is a mixed-use community where arts and industry intersect It's mostly empty warehouses, housing projects, and luxury condos. There's very little in terms of culture or even basic needs, like grocery stores. > Long Island City has some of the best transit access in New York City, with 8 subway lines, 13 bus lines, commuter rail, a bike-sharing service, and ferries serving the area Realistically it'…
I am not sure I agree with this assessment. Where are Amazon employees going to live? Probably not out on Queens Boulevard on the 7/E/F/M/R so they'll be taking the train in the opposite direction. If they live on Long Island, they can take LIRR to Hunterspoint Ave (infrequent service, but demand can change that). If they live in New Jersey or in MNR territory, they'll take the train to Manhattan and then take the su…
Deja Vu all over again
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#226Knew that they wouldn't pick Toronto - Trump would have blown a gasket
Toronto wasn't chosen because Toronto wasn't competitive. People that live in Toronto talk about how they're underpaid and how their tech sector pales in comparison to major US cities. Even many Waterloo CS graduates have a "US or bust" type mentality because of the labor market disparities. Amazon would be foolish to choose a location in Canada due to a their healthcare system and immigration situation. Healthcare i…
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#227Wouldn't you call two new offices that are smaller than the headquarters "satellite offices"? It really does feel like Amazon successfully played a lot of municipalities against each other to try and extract the biggest concessions, knowing all along that it didn't make sense to try and hire 50000 people in a decade in any one location. I know that's how the game is played, but it's still feels a little disingenuous.
It feels like false advertising to me, and I'm surprised that people aren't making much noise about it. When Amazon first announced HQ2 they said that it would "be a full equal to our current campus in Seattle". I'm not sure how this can still be true given that it's half the size.
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#228Unless I'm misreading this, it looks like Nashville got the best deal > Amazon will receive performance-based direct incentives of up to $102 million based on the company creating 5,000 jobs with an average wage of over $150,000 in Nashville. This is a pretty big deal for Nashville, and costing them only $12,000 per job is a pretty big win.
Nashville makes sense for anyone doing distribution. Great airport with tons of planes, pilots, distribution center workers already there for the largest couriers. Also because you can reach 60% of Americans by road in 1-2 days and efficient hub and spoke distribution for air freight.
Fedex uses Memphis as their distribution hub, so Amazon is taking a similar path it seems.
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#229> Long Island City is a mixed-use community where arts and industry intersect It's mostly empty warehouses, housing projects, and luxury condos. There's very little in terms of culture or even basic needs, like grocery stores. > Long Island City has some of the best transit access in New York City, with 8 subway lines, 13 bus lines, commuter rail, a bike-sharing service, and ferries serving the area Realistically it'…
> housing projects
I have spent a ton of time in LiC and as far as I can tell, there are none. Chelsea where Google is, has more housing projects. Housing projects aren't really an issue, but clearly you are trolling or clueless.
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#230> Long Island City is a mixed-use community where arts and industry intersect It's mostly empty warehouses, housing projects, and luxury condos. There's very little in terms of culture or even basic needs, like grocery stores. > Long Island City has some of the best transit access in New York City, with 8 subway lines, 13 bus lines, commuter rail, a bike-sharing service, and ferries serving the area Realistically it'…
> housing projects I have spent a ton of time in LiC and as far as I can tell, there are none. Chelsea where Google is, has more housing projects. Housing projects aren't really an issue, but clearly you are trolling or clueless.
It's home to Queensbridge the largest housing project in the city.