Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]

Post by twic » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 12:54 PM UTC

mikro2nd wrote: post #333

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Your comment reminds me of this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/zackkanter/status/130493861651941... The cognitive dissonance humans are capable of is amazing. To actually say “We would never allow that in our town.” in the pejorative while flying back from a trip specifically meant to learn how to be like another town . If you’re not going to act on an author’s central point, don’t try to do any of the other parts…

>The recipe for success of Silicon Valley... You seem to have left out "Tons of government money funding early electronics and aerospace development"... a bootstrap factor that should not be forgotten.

Post by Digory » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC

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Beware. A friend signed a ludicrous non-compete as a consultant which disallowed him from working with any company the company had approached . Was layed off, got legal advice: his lawyer told him not to fight it :( He changed industries.

In my limited experience with lawyers, they always advise conservatism. That's not to say they're always wrong. But they don't have much incentive to say, "Go for it!" Even if you're 95% chance likely to have things work out okay, what would the lawyer get in that situation? Nothing. And in the 5% of cases they'd be excoriated for giving their client bad advice.

Post by HappySweeney » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 1:12 PM UTC

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And further compounding the issue, in a specific part of France, they will give you shit for even trying to speak French. It doesn’t matter if you have good vocabulary and decent grammar / pronunciation, they still will refuse to speak to you or worse insult you for even trying. This certainly isn’t an issue in all of France, just one specific area that I’ll avoid naming to not offend folks from there.

Having been to most corners of France so far, I cannot confirm this. I can confirm so, that French have a tendency to not like speaking English at the very beginning of a conversation. They do appreciate so, if foreigners try speaking French. Some even all of a sudden can speak English.

Post by kyawzazaw » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

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> But then we lead into #2, your comments on the recipe for success. Among your central points, literally placed in the center, is "great weather". That can't be copied. You have the weather you have. What should the other 99.999% of the world do? Well, the weather probably is a comparatively small factor, but nonreplicable geographic factors are actually a major factor in the success of most economic hubs, including…

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder though. Way too hot, hazardous weather, impossible to get around (crazy traffic congestions, no useful public transporation, bicycling being suicidal), have to go to Home Depot to get real Coca Cola. Overall quite "meh".

Post by fakedang » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 1:37 PM UTC

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I don't understand why there is no Silicon Valley in Europe then

I believe Europe can create its own SV by following the USA's route: the Europe's equivalent of DoD (which has access to unlimited funds, tens of trillions of euros), needs to come up with a grand multi-decade project and invest into companies that are going to work on related sub-projects. For USA it was the worldwide surveillance system, but for Europe it may be something else, like ITER (but on a bigger scale) or…