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Re:Where to start up a startup by nostrademons on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @03:21PM (#9103229)
They don't, actually. While the engineering population of SF is growing fast, the increase is a tiny fraction of the total number of software engineers in the U.S, let alone in the world. Remember Joy's Law: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else." [1]

What the Bay Area does have is a greater concentration of talented engineers than any other major municipality. When you're trying to make a concrete decision where to locate your startup, that matters. And most of the people who argue "Don't move to SF" aren't actually arguing "Move somewhere else", it's usually "Adopt a distributed team where you pick the best engineers regardless of location." The latter approach has a bunch of its own problems, so it becomes a tradeoff of getting the biggest possible talent pool possible vs. reducing communication costs and building a team locally.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s_Law_%28management%29

Re:Where to start up a startup by solve on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @03:32PM (#9103300)
The vast majority of men do not actually date supermodels, and therefore they must not be willing to.

Just joking, but I think your logic might be slightly missing some other important factors.

Re:Where to start up a startup by nostrademons on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @03:38PM (#9103340)
It works if you substitute "willing and able" for "willing", which is the usual context of this discussion. If you are willing and able to date a supermodel and you don't, well, why the hell not?

(FWIW, I personally have little interest in supermodels...but then, most people would consider that lack of interest = "not willing", so the logic still holds. Like all logic, it obscures subtleties - I'd be quite willing if she were a good match beyond being a supermodel and I weren't already attached - but then, this is a problem generally with imposing words on the world, and not with the specific instance.)

Re:Where to start up a startup by solve on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @04:42PM (#9103727)
The parent in this thread literally said "willing".