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The article contradicts its hypey headline: To be sure, the Bay Area has such a deep reservoir of tech talent, money and infrastructure, not to mention the cli
by blast 5y ago
The article contradicts its hypey headline:
To be sure, the Bay Area has such a deep reservoir of tech talent, money and infrastructure, not to mention the climate and the ocean, that it won’t be easily knocked off its perch.
- reaperducer 5y agoSeems like yet another clickbaity article. How many times have we seen this same story with different geographies? Every town on the planet with an internet connection and a chamber of commerce has named itself Silicon Prairie (at least three of them), Silicon Bayou, Silicon Gorge, Silicon Water, Silicon Alps, Silicon Glen, Silicon and on and on.
- mythrwy 5y agoThere's a guy in my tiny one horse town in the middle of nowhere running for mayor right now (unlikely to break 1 digit percent of the vote) that wants to make the town a Bitcoin mining capital. I should approach him about the possibility of making this the next Silicon Valley so I can be inundated with job offers without having to move.
- jorpal 5y agoYou missed my favorite iteration: Silicon Shire.
- calciphus 5y agoI was always a fan of the nine (+) different Silicon Beaches Isn't every beach covered in silica?
- lsaferite 5y agoBeing the top of the pile and not being a monopoly on talent aren't mutually exclusive though.