Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
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Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#2Just a stones throw away from Washington DC, imagine that. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that Amazon is in talks to do billions of dollars worth of work with the DOD and that the location choice of the second headquarters might have a lot to do with that.
Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#3Been looking to buy a house in the Northern Virginia area for about five years now, but the prices have climbed almost linearly, and never slowed down. If Amazon does settle here, I'll probably continue renting until I can GTFO. Microsoft also bought a large plot of land around Loudon county, on which they plan to build a campus.
If this area is to become the next Seattle, I have no interest in being here.
Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#4Just a stones throw away from Washington DC, imagine that. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that Amazon is in talks to do billions of dollars worth of work with the DOD and that the location choice of the second headquarters might have a lot to do with that.
Yeah, congratulations to everyone who called it ages ago or pointed out that a CEO is going to put HQ2 near an already established home.
Good work on 6+ months of press and making cities embarrass themselves for what seemed obvious from the start.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/news/a...
Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#5Just a stones throw away from Washington DC, imagine that. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that Amazon is in talks to do billions of dollars worth of work with the DOD and that the location choice of the second headquarters might have a lot to do with that.
Also, Bezos’s interests in Blue Origin and the Washington Post. Oh, and he has a mansion in DC: https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/04/22/inside-jeff-bezos-d...
Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#6I find the logic in the article pretty funny.
> [T]he best way to make it is you collect as much data as you can, you immerse yourself in that data, but then [throw all that data away and decide based on personal whim]
Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#7That's going to drive up house prices nicely, in an already expensive area to live.
Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#8I find the logic in the article pretty funny. > [T]he best way to make it is you collect as much data as you can, you immerse yourself in that data, but then [throw all that data away and decide based on personal whim]
That’s sounds worse than it is. I think a better phrasing would be “read as much information as you can, and then sleep on it and go with the first option your subconscious tells you to go with”. Or gut, or instinct or ‘feel’. Informed intuition is a wonderful thing.
Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#9I find the logic in the article pretty funny. > [T]he best way to make it is you collect as much data as you can, you immerse yourself in that data, but then [throw all that data away and decide based on personal whim]
That’s sounds worse than it is. I think a better phrasing would be “read as much information as you can, and then sleep on it and go with the first option your subconscious tells you to go with”. Or gut, or instinct or ‘feel’. Informed intuition is a wonderful thing.
I think that's exactly backwards. I think you review data to use your intuition to form the hypothesis or question, and then look for empirical data to try to falsify it.
Putting intuition at the end of the decision making process is a pretty solid way to screw the entire thing up.
Re: Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in Northern Virginia
#10The traffic and congestion is already horrible. The cost of living is excessive. I don't understand why these companies - that can locate anywhere - want to lessen the quality of life for their employees.