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YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Re: YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

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Post by komali2 »

arcticbull wrote: post #457
komali2 wrote: post #269

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Learning Chinese is not as big as an obstacle as you might think, especially when it's that or find a way to past US immigration and afford school + living in the USA. When I lived in Taiwan, I knew a tremendous amount of south american students that had come for the graduate programs because the schools were on-par with American universities, the cost of living was extremely low, and Taiwan is very open to immigrati…

And they've got $2 beef noodle ^_^ not an easy place to stay thin.

On the other hand, a train ride to Fulong beach is 1hr and costs 1$, or you can hike Elephant Mountain or one of the millions of other mountains, or you can bike through the mountains, or climb at one of the hundreds of walls, or pay $.50 to get into a gym....

I've never been as fit as when I lived in Taiwan :P

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Post by startupdiscuss »

smsm42 wrote: post #192
startupdiscuss wrote: post #5

Perhaps a startup founder could exploit "ease-of-travel arbitrage" and offer a service: Remote working from several countries that are easy to get to, accept a wide range of passports, and have enormous bandwidth. Canada is a lot more open than the US at this point in time, but it's not all roses for people even to get to Vancouver. What if there were a hub in, say Dubai? And a few other spots around the world? I ima…

Dubai is an excellent idea. UAE is one of the countries, for example, that bans any citizens of Israel and anybody who ever visited Israel from entry. Nice way to solve those visa questions once and for all. Why worry about unclear visa policy if we can choose a country with a clear "no Jews allowed" visa policy?

This is just misinformation.

There are many jews living and working in Dubai.

It is true that Israeli passports are not allowed. But that is the point of multiple sites. Perhaps Cambodia would have been a better choice.

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Post by fixxer »

komali2 wrote: post #516
fixxer wrote: post #512

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The flip side of that sentiment is calling fascism on anyone who thinks sanctuary cities are bullshit. The lunacy is bipartisan.

I could make a strong argument, however, that a government seeking to strip the ability of states (cities) to have "sanctuary status" is fascist, or at the very least not very republican.

International borders fall under federal jurisdiction, so I don't think your point is as strong as you think, but I'll play this game...

So, you support states rights? Tell me why abortion is a federal issue then?

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Post by nradov »

nostrademons wrote: post #271
pizzetta wrote: post #247

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I don' think the situation is as dire as people think. Europe exported many technical people during the war years and one would be hard pressed to say they are backwards because they lost talent. Japan as well is not very friendly to labor migrants and they are at the forefront of science in technology despite their small population size relative to other geographies.

It did, however, dramatically help the U.S. We got the atom bomb, moon landings, computer, and many other inventions out of European immigrants who fled the Nazis. The U.S. had a strong science program before the war, but its superpower status afterwards was just as much because we got all the brightest minds in Europe as because we bombed everyone else into rubble. I could see Australia, New Zealand, or Canada simil…

Some of the major postwar US innovations — particularly in the space program — came not from European immigrants who fled the Nazis but rather from German immigrants who were the Nazis. US intelligence services brought them here through Operation Paperclip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

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Post by komali2 »

bluedino wrote: post #406
bdamm wrote: post #310

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It's a shame American primary education can't turn out enough educated Americans to fill the gap.

Not enough parents aren't pushing the kids to succeed and go on. The schools aren't the problem.

The schools aren't the problem? How do you think the parents got into a position where they don't push their kids to succeed? Have you been to an inner-city school? How about a school in Mississippi or South Carolina?

The government defunded the schools and created a culture of anti-intellectualism. Fixing education is just about as perfect a solution you can get to the myriad of problems this country faces.

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Post by mschuster91 »

degenerate wrote: post #286
komali2 wrote: post #253

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As a Texan it boggled my mind to hear people complain about immigration. Walk into UT, A&M, UH engineering departments, half the students are Chinese or Russian or Indian. In the grad programs it's even more. That means their best talent is here , paying US taxes, contributing to US companies, making the US more powerful, all the while contributing almost nothing to their home countries. How is that a bad thing! I do…

You might want to take a step outside the academic setting every once in a while. Chat with a cop, ambulance driver, or immigration officer from a sanctuary city if you really want to "get" it. It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry, not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

> You might want to take a step outside the academic setting every once in a while.

> It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry

And you apparently carry a user name that matches your posts, at least this one.

Stuff like your last sentence is something that is heard (in Germany, at least) only on the right-to-fringe-right sphere. It's long since I have seen such outspoken racism here.

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Post by delano »

cperciva wrote: post #411
neptunespear wrote: post #405

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If you're Colin Percival, I know you from Reddit. You're /u/perciva, right? SFU Senate member, an /r/simonfraser mod.

Yes. I was originally /u/cperciva on Reddit, but forgot the password for that account a few months in and created /u/perciva. And yes, I'm coming to the end of my fourth 3-year term on the Senate, and about to submit my nomination papers seeking re-election for a fifth term.

Yeah but did you win the Putnam tho?

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Post by komali2 »

Hydraulix989 wrote: post #344
crikli wrote: post #308

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The move from calling illegal aliens to illegal immigrants (or undocumented workers, or whatever) creates so much confusion. I don't know a single person, and I know a good number of Trump voters, who is opposed to legal immigration. What many people, myself included, are opposed to is the illegal part. Yet I consistently see this stance twisted to mean opposition to all immigration. This conflation is patently ridic…

If you look at Trump's ACTUAL actions (denying re-entry to "permanent resident" green card holders, etc.), you'll see that even Trump makes this conflation himself. It's important to judge someone the most by what they do, and not just by what they say.

But it's also important to judge people by what they say, i.e. people saying "he doesn't actually grab women by the pussy, that's just locker-room talk."

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Post by DrJid »

chongli wrote: post #429
mehaveaccount wrote: post #227

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I'm a visa holder and I'm not worried because worst case scenario I go back home to live with my family who loves me.

You haven't been reading the news very carefully. Worst case scenario is that you get sent to a 3rd party country, have your passport seized upon landing, and possibly end up in prison where your human rights are at risk.

Source?

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Post by walkon »

homakov wrote: post #121

Weird choice of country for this purpose. I wonder who needs visa to the US and doesn't need one to Canada, and I'm pretty sure the number is small.

Canada welcomes everyone* with wide, egalitarian arms - regardless of age, race, gender, identity, etc.

* excluding the disabled: http://www.ccdonline.ca/en/socialpolicy/immigration

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