America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business

Re:America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business by ng12 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:00AM (#14910594)

Visa availability is not the magic ingredient to replicate Sillicon Valley. High wages and high concentration of talent are. What would entice an Indian or Eastern European developer to move to Mexico?

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Re:America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business by mc32 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:16AM (#14911197)

Beaches and a relaxed pace of life, not unlike that of the Balearic coast instead of aggressive dog eat dog of SV culture?

It is different but some people might like the more relaxed atmos.

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Re:America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business by thrav on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:05PM (#14911688)

What if the aggressive dog eat dog culture is what sparks innovation? What if having amazing beaches and hardly any need for cash is a recipe for underachievement?

People have options. If they choose the valley, they're choosing it for a reason. It's already easy enough to find remote work as a talented programmer and live wherever you want. If that's you priority, you do that.

If you want the competition and the buzz and the drive, you go where the people with those shared values are concentrated (NY or SF). Where you have to either bust your ass or risk ending up on the street like the people you see on Market every day. This propels you forward at a rate that is difficult to replicate elsewhere.

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Re:America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business by trevyn on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @11:27AM (#14911295)

Interestingly, beaches are inversely correlated with economic activity.

See http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v527/n7577/full/nature1...

Optimal average temperature for economic activity is 13 C, San Francisco average is 14 C.

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Re:America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business by splintercell on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @03:45PM (#14913958)

> Beaches and a relaxed pace of life

Dunno anyone from India who gets excited by the idea of beaches and relaxed pace of life. If anything then these places are ALL about relaxed pace of life.

Maybe to Eastern Europeans beaches might be enticing, but definitely not to the Indians.

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Re:America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business by tapatio on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @01:51PM (#14912933)

You have obviously never been to India. The smell.

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Re:America’s Competitors Angle for Silicon Valley’s Business by tapatio on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:29PM (#14932454)

Not sure why people down vote. Read all about it here: https://www.aroundtheworldl.com/2013/10/27/smells-india/

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