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Mountain View is directly adjacent to Silicon Valley. Like Silicon Valley it is a suburb of San Francisco. I'm not sure how you can say developing in a county
by true_religion 15y ago
Mountain View is directly adjacent to Silicon Valley. Like Silicon Valley it is a suburb of San Francisco.
I'm not sure how you can say developing in a county adjacent to silicon valley is the same thing as developing in a country more than 3000 miles away.
If Silicon Valley is a metaphor then the term is meaningless. New York is Silicon Valley. So is Chicago. So is Vancover, and London.
If it isn't---because of the unique legal structure, cultural consciousness, and developer concentration in and around Silicon Valley---then its unfair to say that a Luxumburg company operating under EU rules is a silicon valley company.
- yid 15y agoThat makes no sense. Mountain View is a real place. Silicon Valley is a nickname for the region, so saying "MV is directly adjacent to SV" makes no sense to me.
- true_religion 15y agoI thought Silicon Valley was a nickname for Sunnyvale, CA.
- yid 15y agoNope. It refers to the region roughly south of South SF and north of San Jose.