None of the currently existing big defense contractors have offices in silicon valley. I don't know what the reason is, but it can't be simple happenstance.
Pentagon woos Silicon Valley to join ranks of arms makers
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Re: Pentagon woos Silicon Valley to join ranks of arms makers
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Said "South African" is a naturalized American citizen, which should be 'American enough' for anybody. His business dealings with the communist Chinese are a bit more concerning. Edit for response: > why did you put quotes around american enough Because in my view you're either an American citizen or you're not. I think it's offensive to speak of being American being a matter of degree. Insinuating that Elon Musk is…
Musk also has citizenship of Canada and South Africa. It does matter in security clearances, but I don’t know how firm that rule is.
Usually they force dual citizens to renounce their other citizenships. I had a coworker who was sidelined for over a year waiting for the paperwork to go through before he could proceed with the SF86. Presumably VIPs get special treatment on that too.
Re: Pentagon woos Silicon Valley to join ranks of arms makers
#53First they need to fix the visa lottery bs. Many of the brightest engineers educated at our top schools need to leave the US because they can't get a status that allows them to work, stay, reunite with their families and eventually become legal residents and citizens.
Why would you say this in time when people are getting laid off left and right? We need to provide jobs for everyone who is already here. The F visa is a non-immigration visa to begin with. Additionally, we need to deal with people who come to our country and then only exclusively hire people from their country of origin. I can point to the page of multiple Chinese professors in the US who were trained by Americans i…
This is a problem in US tech companies too. I've seen many instances of teams being run as ethnic enclaves. In a company that is 50% American nationals, what are the chances that a set of three or four teams under one man would have a total of 30 out of 30 Chinese nationals by pure happenstance?
If the other half of the company were Chinese nationals (which certainly isn't the case) a team of 30 by pure happenstance would be 0.5^30 = 9.3 * 10^-10. Real fucking unlikely, yet I've seen that scenario happen more than once. Nobody says anything about it of course, everybody knows how HR would respond.
Re: Pentagon woos Silicon Valley to join ranks of arms makers
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you say this in time when people are getting laid off left and right? We need to provide jobs for everyone who is already here. The F visa is a non-immigration visa to begin with. Additionally, we need to deal with people who come to our country and then only exclusively hire people from their country of origin. I can point to the page of multiple Chinese professors in the US who were trained by Americans i…
This is a problem in US tech companies too. I've seen many instances of teams being run as ethnic enclaves. In a company that is 50% American nationals, what are the chances that a set of three or four teams under one man would have a total of 30 out of 30 Chinese nationals by pure happenstance? If the other half of the company were Chinese nationals (which certainly isn't the case) a team of 30 by pure happenstance…
I know of a large Chinese tech company which has research labs in the U.S. and these research labs are 100% Chinese. They're basically able to bring over whoever they want from overseas. What are the odds that there are ZERO U.S. citizens able to do those jobs? And even if all of these people are also U.S. citizens (I know for a fact they're not because I know some of the people in these labs), what are the odds they all ended up being from one ethnicity?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a ton of nonwhite people in the defense sector. Just as there are a ton of non-white US citizens.
To the types of people who use terms like “lily white” in a derogatory sense, the non-white US citizens who work in the defense sector don’t really count as non-white. I think the term is “multiracial whiteness”.
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Re: Pentagon woos Silicon Valley to join ranks of arms makers
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a ton of nonwhite people in the defense sector. Just as there are a ton of non-white US citizens.
To the types of people who use terms like “lily white” in a derogatory sense, the non-white US citizens who work in the defense sector don’t really count as non-white. I think the term is “multiracial whiteness”.
Silicon Valley is a globalization phenomenon. US defense R&D is not. Both of those things seem fine to me, it just limits the potential crossover.
Re: Pentagon woos Silicon Valley to join ranks of arms makers
#57As a self-styled ultra-libertarian, I felt a sudden visceral disgust when I saw the title of this article. After all, SV is supposed to be all about peace, love, woke-ism and "making the world a better place".
Also, since I am always right and anybody who disagrees with me is wrong, I didn't want to bother reading the text. Luckily, there was an audio version by a not-so-hostile narrator.
TL;DR: China has already wooed their equivalent of SV.