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Your comment is both incorrect and childish and this is actually an important and interesting topic, please don't participate on HN discussions with comments li

Your comment is both incorrect and childish and this is actually an important and interesting topic, please don't participate on HN discussions with comments like this.

poolpool 12y ago
Comparing the startup scene in silicon valley to fashion is actually very apt. The loss of life and pain would be devastating, but lets not think that a few billion dollars worth of hardware would be anything other than a tax write-off and some middle managers pain to deal with for the next year. If you want to look at devastating datacenter loss, if anything happened to Northern NJ the markets would go into a tailspin.
baq 12y ago
your comment is no better than op's. you could provide some examples why his opinion is wrong, because i believe quite a lot of people (myself included) think that most of companies that only exist in silicon valley are about extracting money from markets that are essentially driven by fashion.
- dirtyaura 12y ago
  You are right, I should have made a better comment or no comment at all. I'm just tired of the obviously incorrect proposition that Bay Area is producing just frivolous photo sharing and social communication tools (which both has a huge value for humanity, but that's a different story) and I seriously find it an interesting thought experiment what would happen on a global scale if the Bay Area would be devastated by a big earthquake. The obvious tech giants like Google, Apple, Oracle and Cisco are arguably supporting a huge number of businesses and organizations around the world. But a glance through a list of just publicly traded US SaaS companies reveals that about 40% are from the Bay Area. These offer SaaS-based solutions ranging from HR tools (Workday), IT service monitoring (Splunk), ITMS (ServiceNow), CRMs (SalesForce), ERPs (NetSuite), Insurance backends (Guidewire) to supply chain management (e2open), to just name a few. If Bay Area suffered anything resembling 2008 Sichuan earthquake, it would halt a good part of the economy for a while.

Your comment is both incorrect and childish and this is actually an important and interesting topic, please don't participate on HN discussions with comments like this.

poolpool 12y ago

Comparing the startup scene in silicon valley to fashion is actually very apt. The loss of life and pain would be devastating, but lets not think that a few billion dollars worth of hardware would be anything other than a tax write-off and some middle managers pain to deal with for the next year. If you want to look at devastating datacenter loss, if anything happened to Northern NJ the markets would go into a tailspin.

baq 12y ago

your comment is no better than op's. you could provide some examples why his opinion is wrong, because i believe quite a lot of people (myself included) think that most of companies that only exist in silicon valley are about extracting money from markets that are essentially driven by fashion.

dirtyaura 12y ago
You are right, I should have made a better comment or no comment at all. I'm just tired of the obviously incorrect proposition that Bay Area is producing just frivolous photo sharing and social communication tools (which both has a huge value for humanity, but that's a different story) and I seriously find it an interesting thought experiment what would happen on a global scale if the Bay Area would be devastated by a big earthquake. The obvious tech giants like Google, Apple, Oracle and Cisco are arguably supporting a huge number of businesses and organizations around the world. But a glance through a list of just publicly traded US SaaS companies reveals that about 40% are from the Bay Area. These offer SaaS-based solutions ranging from HR tools (Workday), IT service monitoring (Splunk), ITMS (ServiceNow), CRMs (SalesForce), ERPs (NetSuite), Insurance backends (Guidewire) to supply chain management (e2open), to just name a few. If Bay Area suffered anything resembling 2008 Sichuan earthquake, it would halt a good part of the economy for a while.