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dbc | 16 years ago | on: Why MBAs are Going East

Because they've sucked dry their hosts in the West, and globalism allows them to move on to another region.

With "vertical transmission", a parasite must stick around to deal with the consequences of its actions to the host, so such arrangements evolve into benign symbiotic relationships.

With "horizontal transmission", a parasite is free to kill its host and move on to another. Such parasites are noted for their virulence.

dbc | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns?

I don't have any advice for software to use, buy I do suggest you use something other than your production DNS domain and mail server for sending out these messages. Even if all of them opt-in, some of your recipients will mark your messages as spam and that mail server/domain will start to show up on blacklists. If your production domain is xyzcorp.com, maybe you should register xyzcorp-messages.com for this activity.

dbc | 16 years ago | on: How Indian Immigrants Have Changed the face of Silicon Valley

"A dozen years ago was 1997. Do you seriously think this is true?"

Of course. That's why I wrote it. This is based on my living and working in SV at the time.

"You seem to think that white Americans work hard to "create" jobs, which are then "stolen" by hordes of immigrants. In other words, white Americans "give" and immigrants "take". That's just not how it works."

Who are you quoting when you put quotes around the words "create", "stolen", "give", and "take"? Are you trying to give the impression that you are quoting me?

The wage issue is basic economics: if you increase the quantity supplied of something (such as wheat, or trained engineers), the price will drop.

dbc | 16 years ago | on: How Indian Immigrants Have Changed the face of Silicon Valley

"India’s best and brightest swept inland, helped turn a valley full of orchards to Silicon."

Uh, no. Those orchards were gone long before South Asians came to Silicon Valley in significant numbers. The demographic makeup of SV engineers was overwhelmingly white American until around a dozen years ago.

With the importation of so many engineers into the US, wages were suppressed and many American students who had the potential to become engineers made the rational decision to pursue other career paths.

dbc | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: slicehost-like providers outside the US?

I'm also interested in offshore VPS hosting, but I want the servers to be located in a country without police state laws surrounding Internet traffic and/or speech, so this excludes the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland would be acceptable, and I'm willing to consider other countries.

I've been using RimuHosting, and they've been pretty good, but their servers are located in jurisdictions that are problematic for true online liberty.

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