anticapit

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   by anticapit 6y ago

   Oh just in this case I was working at a security company and everybody we imported were from Israel. I’ve worked st 3 security companies and they all either had Israeli offices or had acquired Israeli security startups. It just seems to be
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   by anticapit 6y ago

   This is exactly how American companies game the h1b visa system. When I worked at AVG we would write job requirement so specific to an Israel developers who worked for one of our subsidiaries that it was clear no other human being in the
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   by anticapit 6y ago

   Agreed, the prospector mentality will never leave, but it is changing. You couldn’t mine gold from Utah, but you can certainly sell silicon snake oil from there. The pandemic seems to be is helping legitmize / mainstream “remote-first”
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   by anticapit 6y ago

   I am a native San Franciscan, and an engineer looking forward to the tech exodus. Most startup prospectors really hate our culture. Once the financial incentive goes away, people are free to seek their fortunes and happiness elsewhere witho
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   by anticapit 6y ago

   But the attitude is very ycombinator.
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   by anticapit 6y ago

   With his arrogant “we’re engineers let’s disrupt everything we don’t understand” attitude, he should really apply to Ycombinator. If not, I’m sure mrs bannister or peter thiel would fund him.