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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by api on Friday August 16, 2013 @01:59PM (#6225651)
I was talking about an idea more than a place, and should have made that clear.

The places where innovation comes from are going to be places that believe in the future, are open to experimentation and risk, and reason from first principles instead of cargo-cultism. It just seems like California (and SV in particular) has an above-average amount of these things.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by dylangs1030 on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:50PM (#6225995)
You're making sweeping statements evidencing the superiority of one area in the world over any other place, and all you did was make a comment full of fluff and grandeur.

There is no "California mindset" just like there's no "Wall Street mindset" in New York. You're just being sectionalist.

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