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Jay wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

ya you clearly do not know the history of Silicon Valley.  Access to elite intellectuals at places like Stanford contributed to Silicon Valley.  The US government has huge operations in the Bay Area. The first led to a congregation of smart people developing stuff. The second led to an aerospace and radio industry pushing the envelope of research for government purposes.  These were the biggest factors in creating the tech sector in the Bay Area.  It has literally ZERO to do with the weather.

here's a decent doc I saw a few years ago

Silicon Valley has one of the highest concentrations of Superfund sites (result of the old semiconductor factories that sprung up after WW2, which were also the inspiration for the name Silicon Valley) in the US.

Irvine/SoCal became a sort of biotech center because of UCI - again, zero to do with weather.

FYI Jay, the weather in the Bay Area ain't that great

Well, maybe you're too close to it, but the perception from here on the east coast is that California is the place to go for a laid back lifestyle in the sun. If that wasn't the defining feature, why would tech companies go out of their way to portray themselves as selling it? They're all full of cool nerds that skateboard to work and surf on the weekends. I see sky-high cost of living, taxes, and a bunch of self-satisfied assholes, personally, but it's what they're selling, and people are still flocking.

There are plenty of other areas of the country that would've served as technology incubators. California isn't all that special. You had Shockley at Bell Labs, but it could've been just about any other place. People stayed for the weather.

uziq wrote:

Jay wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

ya you clearly do not know the history of Silicon Valley.  Access to elite intellectuals at places like Stanford contributed to Silicon Valley.  The US government has huge operations in the Bay Area. The first led to a congregation of smart people developing stuff. The second led to an aerospace and radio industry pushing the envelope of research for government purposes.  These were the biggest factors in creating the tech sector in the Bay Area.  It has literally ZERO to do with the weather.

here's a decent doc I saw a few years ago

Silicon Valley has one of the highest concentrations of Superfund sites (result of the old semiconductor factories that sprung up after WW2, which were also the inspiration for the name Silicon Valley) in the US.

Irvine/SoCal became a sort of biotech center because of UCI - again, zero to do with weather.

FYI Jay, the weather in the Bay Area ain't that great

Well, maybe you're too close to it, but the perception from here on the east coast is that California is the place to go for a laid back lifestyle in the sun. If that wasn't the defining feature, why would tech companies go out of their way to portray themselves as selling it? They're all full of cool nerds that skateboard to work and surf on the weekends. I see sky-high cost of living, taxes, and a bunch of self-satisfied assholes, personally, but it's what they're selling, and people are still flocking.

There are plenty of other areas of the country that would've served as technology incubators. California isn't all that special. You had Shockley at Bell Labs, but it could've been just about any other place. People stayed for the weather.

you are such a stupid cunt it's unbelievable. you really buy into your own bullshit.

shockley went to cal tech. he was an academic at stanford. 'could have been just about any other place'.

people stayed because all the research institutions and their funding were there. not because the sunsets were nice.

you stupid
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Jay wrote:

uziq wrote:

Jay wrote:

Well, maybe you're too close to it, but the perception from here on the east coast is that California is the place to go for a laid back lifestyle in the sun. If that wasn't the defining feature, why would tech companies go out of their way to portray themselves as selling it? They're all full of cool nerds that skateboard to work and surf on the weekends. I see sky-high cost of living, taxes, and a bunch of self-satisfied assholes, personally, but it's what they're selling, and people are still flocking.

There are plenty of other areas of the country that would've served as technology incubators. California isn't all that special. You had Shockley at Bell Labs, but it could've been just about any other place. People stayed for the weather.

you are such a stupid cunt it's unbelievable. you really buy into your own bullshit.

shockley went to cal tech. he was an academic at stanford. 'could have been just about any other place'.

people stayed because all the research institutions and their funding were there. not because the sunsets were nice.

you stupid
piece
of
shit

Why not MIT? Why not Carnegie-Mellon or any other area of the country? Dumb luck. Christ you're stupid.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I am excited to see how Jay responds to having a republican president. We have only ever known him under a democrat. This may just be a "darkest before dawn" moment. He might switch to a democratic socialist in response to Trump.

Jay wrote:

high taxes and the insanely corrupt state government.

DrunkFace wrote:

Why would anyone got to SF/bay area for surf culture?

There's like 1 beach near SF and none near silicon valley.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Jay wrote:

high taxes and the insanely corrupt state government.

If you hate it so much why haven't you moved to one of the low tax, small govt utopias you keep going on about?
Oh yeah, they're actually shit aren't they?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I have heard people say they are okay with him using his office to make side money as long as he builds the wall and gets rid of Muslims. They don't care about corruption or anything else as long as they can spite some people.

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