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Re:Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley by dionidium on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:00AM (#17876755)
Well, sure. If you're going to bluff the car salesman, you have to be willing to walk out of the dealership (otherwise it really is just a bluff).
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Re:Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley by nostrademons on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:02PM (#17877773)
...and then you haven't actually influenced the local government, you've just found a new one.
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Re:Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley by dionidium on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:44PM (#17878174)
One would hope that a local government that lost its town Facebook or Google would be influenced by that loss, but maybe things are actually so bad that they wouldn't be.
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Re:Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley by nradov on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:49PM (#17878918)
Many of the people who are long time residents and home owners in Mountain View wouldn't shed a tear if Google packed up and left. The general local attitude toward those large tech companies is ambivalent at best.
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Re:Why startups are leaving Silicon Valley by dionidium on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:43PM (#17879516)
Yes, I know. They aren't going to change that position voluntarily. I strongly suspect that state intervention is inevitable.
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