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Thought you were joking at first, how can an entire state be without power? But seems you're right, how the hell does that happen in a first-world country? Tried to access some dashboards that are supposed to show some data, but not sure if I can't access it because I'm not in the US/Texas or if it's down as well (because they don't have power?) - https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards - https://www.ercot.com/g…
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ERCOT doesn't do power delivery, you wouldn't see how many people are without power by checking out ERCOT. You would want to look at one of the several power delivery companies, such as Oncor. https://stormcenter.oncor.com/ They show 7,073 customers affected by outages out of 3,835,901 customers served. That's 0.18% of customers affected. Texas-New Mexico Power is another power delivery company in Texas. https://www.…
Thank you, that oncor website seems to be available to me. I was browsing around some news article that seemed to echo the same sentiment, tried to access the source data myself and couldn't, so made an assumption. That was an error on my part and I'm sorry for that. Thank you for providing a better source that seems accessible worldwide.
You shared lies and slandered a state suggesting its a third world country based on false data.
Pasting this in dev console will give you a quick and dirty rundown. It sorts locations by points. [...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)).map(a => a.join(' - ')) As of this post, California is leading, followed by other places w/ large tech hubs (Germany, UK, Canada, NY, Washington)
This is begging for a console.table console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)))
console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => ({place: el.textContent.trim(), score: parseInt(el.nextSibling.textContent)})).sort((a, b) => b.score - a.score))I'm sure there are many Indians on HN, but they probably reside somewhere in the US.
I think of Silicon Valley not so much as a geographic region any more, but rather a way of working, that has been exported all over the world now.
I believe one of the reasons Seattle emerged as the second tech juggernaut city, versus another random metro in the US, is that it shares the same western US culture as Silicon Valley and therefore could adopt Silicon Valley's methods unmodified and expect similar results. In other parts of the world, and even in e.g. the eastern US, the impedance mismatch between the Silicon Valley way of working and the socio-cultural milieu are pretty visible.
HN is definitely not SV only, but I often observe discussions where folks involved write something country-specific, do not state where they live, and assume implicitly everyone in discussion lives in the same country, they understand the context, and the way things work in their country is the only possible way.
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That’s nice in theory and likely a factor over some areas. The primary differentiator is a culture of local access to VC funding. It explains both the timeline and geographic distribution.
The concentration of VC funding didn't happen before the local tech companies. It happened because of the local tech companies.
Shockley was the spark that set SV on fire (not HP). By chance he ended up in the SV area, moving from New Jersey to Mountain View because his ill mother lived in Palo Alto. Beckman Instruments provided the capital for Shockley to start his company, which led to Fairchild (also formed by outside capital) and off it went.
Those companies would not have existed without the venture capital that made them possible. Shockley was not going to bootstrap his company, and the traitorous eight were similarly not going to leave without significant financial support courtesy of Fairchild Camera.