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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by magic_beans on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:13AM (#14114546)
Agreed. This feels a lot like a submarine article. For people in the US, it would be way easier to just relocate from SV to middle America. Or even just to other parts of California.

New Zealand does look absolutely stunning, though.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by antod on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:41PM (#14117171)
> This feels a lot like a submarine article

How is it a submarine article? The people and agencies involved in the campaign are upfront and explicit in what their roles and goals are.

It isn't one of those "the suit is back" articles.

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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by mattnewton on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:32AM (#14114649)
How is that hiding from American politics?
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by hamandcheese on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:34AM (#14114661)
Easy: don't watch the news.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by anigbrowl on Friday April 14, 2017 @01:01PM (#14115577)
Foolish people think politics is something that happens on television or to other people. That can change very quickly and politics begins to show up at the doors and windows.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by tonmoy on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:38AM (#14114692)
When they won't let me come in the US at the border after visiting a different country, not watching the new will be very helpful indeed
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by hamandcheese on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:43AM (#14114721)
GP said relocate to middle America.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by sampo on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:06AM (#14114874)
Even if you relocate to Colorado, Kansas, whatever, one occasionally needs to travel to other countries, no?
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by clarkm on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:37AM (#14115057)
Most Americans don't have a passport and have never left the country.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by sampo on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:04PM (#14115233)
And this applies to American Silicon Valley programmers, too?
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by self-diversity on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:46PM (#14117212)
Sure. Many of us don't have any need to leave America at all.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by Arizhel on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:23PM (#14134086)
Yeah, and you don't need to even leave your city, or do anything besides go home, go to work, and go to the grocery store and a few other places like the doctor.

Doesn't sound like much of a life to me. What's the point of making 6 figures in a hard profession if you're going to live like a miser?

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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by tonmoy on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:29PM (#14117590)
But some do. So the reply to the GGG...P stands.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by hamandcheese on Saturday April 15, 2017 @12:51AM (#14119448)
By that same token, though, any American who travels abroad can't truly isolate themselves anywhere if they hope to return without the aforementioned fears of being barred from reentry.
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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by nebabyte on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:26PM (#14117023)
You're still subject to the laws that get passed.

How 'bout that ISP spying, and those latest pushes against net neutrality. (But okay, at least you have cheap - for the US - rent) I'd love to get locked in to that as a small business.

> Easy: don't watch the news.

"The news" is not just followed as an emotional stimulant; your life in relation to "the news" does not begin and end with the television or computer screen. It's a harbinger of law and policy to come.

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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by mattnewton on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:43AM (#14114724)
That isn't working for me. Neighbors down the street afraid of ICE raids after the last one hit our city, all anyone wants to talk about is WWIII brewing in Syria.
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