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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Current System prioritizes people from India. From my personal experience (also see the article below[1]) people coming to the US for undergrad education usually end up in good universities.. Probably a small portion of them are going to be
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No no they are not out.. just give them priority over literally any college in the world. By no means ideal, if it was up to me I would allow all forms of immigration (maybe in return of a small social safety net fee) just trying to brainst
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
4 year STEM degree from an american university seems like a good place to start.. its not enough but better than a fake or real engineering degree from somewhere else. Because how the lottery is structured, anyone who went to an american co
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
a stanford undergrad needs to apply for H1-B as well.. which is ridiculous
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Recent graduate here. Facebook still rules college campuses.. Facebook events are incredibly useful.
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Can anyone explain how US policy makers justify the US military spending? Is it just about creating jobs? So why not build trains hospitals schools with that money? Is it just because the defense industry lobbies the shit out of US politici
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
you might as well actually rent it out at that point..
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Ability to update your app over the wire with React Native is a massive advantage overlooked in the article. (via Codepush or something similar) In big companies app releases are a huge problem when 100+ committers and tens of features are
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
"Yes, ambitious people go to these tech "Meccas" but I don't think it really increases any one individual person's chance of making it big." How can this be true if you admit a large number of startups come out
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
But Thiel doesn't really target tech workers, he makes a more general observation, and its also valid for Toronto. If are smart and ambitious enough you shouldn't stay in Toronto.
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Drivers don't care! No one thinks they are going to be an Uber driver forever most think its a temporary thing. I am pretty confident self driving cars are going to create more jobs than they destroy. Whole new businesses will be econo
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Yea America needs a different visa that allows people in without a lottery.
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
http://thesfshipyard.com and http://www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com are both eb-5 eligible projects, I wouldn't call them bad areas..
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Wow Singapore, Istanbul and which I believe is Rotterdam has crazy traffic. And basically all of Japan and China :)
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
but didn't Otto employees end up making a ton of money, way more than what they would have at Uber? given that otto was pretty young?
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
you don't like sports?
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Yep exactly ! Erdogan and Gulen were close allies until 3 years ago. A stadium full of Gulen supporters cheering for Erdogan, just 4 years ago.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP7r0U8mfg Erdogan's speech; "I wis
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
“Battles have been won against greater odds” John Snow. Jokes aside, most of these generals were already getting arrested or getting kicked out of the military in the following weeks, they just decided to actually do the crime they are gett
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Best explanation I have about what happened is this; The attempt was real. It was actually planned pretty well. Their plans were exposed. They panicked, couldn't really follow through with all their plans. Generals that weren't pa
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Zero indication at all. None. Exactly the opposite actually. Not sure about the exact numbers but a lot of the the generals that were promoted after the Ergenekon and Balyoz cases were behind the coup. A lot of secular Generals were put to
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
And there is the supply chain argument.. A Drone is basically a flying smartphone. Every new hardware product uses the smartphone supply chain. Imagine the effects of electric car/battery supply chain, one obvious effect is that everyt
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
Yep! Even some of Amazon and Microsoft's high profile teams are based in SV..
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
What people seem to miss when they project about Silicon Valley's future is that how existing tech monopolies are becoming increasingly profitable. Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Netflix are all literally killing it! If you wa
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
I would say Tesla is on its way to make an iPhone-like impact, along with other self driving car technologies. I would consider the Tesla's Autopilot to be a blockbuster feature.
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
"And this crushed the SF housing market." As far as I know even in the previous dotcom burst the housing market went down just a little, something around 10%. In some neighborhoods rents have been increasing more than that per yea
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
uber being not profitable doesn't really tell us anything. They are not profitable by design.. if they cut their growth budget today, I am sure they are insanely profitable, they just prefer to spend all the money in growth.. Even in S
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
So you are saying NYC is much less expensive than Bay Area?
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Aaron Peskin is doing everything to fuel hatred against tech workers in the city; he reminds me of populist Latin American leaders who antagonize the population against a certain group to grab media attention and get votes.. How do you deci
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by gorkemyurt 10y ago
No, tax breaks were given to the mid market area not to specific companies, so even the restaurants and gyms get tax breaks in the area

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