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Re:Massachusetts gives workers new protections against nonco... by presscast on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:04PM (#17811470)
>Too little, too late

And a damn shame, too. One of the major enabling factors for Silicon Valley's success has been the unenforcability of non-compete clauses in CA.

MA has a lot going for it (e.g.: MIT, relative proximity with Europe, ...), but seems hell-bent on being the place where only large government contractors can emerge.

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Re:Massachusetts gives workers new protections against nonco... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:56PM (#17812056)
>And a damn shame, too

Meh, you reap what you sow and MA has spend decades cultivating incompetent government that's incapable of addressing the needs of the population but perfectly capable of spending our money. I'm sure we look like we have out shit together from far away in SillyValley but I assure you we don't.

>MA has a lot going for it but seems hell-bent on being the place where only large government contractors can emerge.

Large government contractors naturally find it easier to exist under a government that likes to stick its nose in all sorts of things (god forbid it actually stick its nose in things in a way that makes life better for people) than companies that are not specifically optimized to work with government.

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