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IB has US and UK accounts (and likely more). For Switzerland (and Europe) you'll get a UK account and you will not have W-8BEN problems.

Yes. It's pretty much always a sign that they don't understand engineering and it's more like a Kindergarten that discovered putting together code constructs makes lights blink.

Nothing passes in the Bay Area with todays attitude. There will never be good transportation here because too many don't want anything to change near them (which is ironic living in SV).

Yes. That could be a problem. But in for most areas customers will be annoyed with Comcast and blame them for poor performance and switch. Still there are lots of areas in the US where you don't have a choice. But they would also loose a lot of customers in denser areas with more choice.

The problem is that if you're big enough business-wise you don't care that much about NN. It's like in Germany when Google has to pay for content in Google News and they just tell the publishers they will not include them if they don't give it to them for free despite these new rules (which are stupid). But if you're a small startup or company and you want to do this you have no chance doing this. Same goes for NN. If someone wants to block Google or Netflix now they can't really get that much from them because they need them to sell their own product or otherwise people will leave. If you're small no-one cares and your can't do anything about it. So it hurts innovation from new companies but doesn't hurt any big established players.

Besides that they also have enough revenue to invest in their own fiber infrastructure like Google does and really everyone wants to get good access to their content so they connect to them.

Pretty much all software engineers have Linux on their main desktop computer. On their laptops it's mostly MacOS or ChromeOS.

The article you cite is a month old.

Proof of stake will solve this for Ethereum by not burning processing power to secure the network. We'll likely end up with several of these methods and even if proof of work is still part of this it's likely much more specialized and just a small part of the system we'll end up with. So for the future this really is no problem at all.

Start doing interships at companies that look good on your cv and pay well enough (Google, Facebook, etc). Get hired at one of these companies after you finished studying (or if you can see it catch one of the up and comming companies at the time). Invest as much as you can into stocks (and if you're adventurous a small fraction into the main crypto currencies). After 10-15 years you will have a pretty high chance of having $2M+ in your accounts (just 401k at e.g. Google will give you 416250 without any returns and after 15 years it's ~800k with 7% returns). Even if you enjoy your live you'll be able to have no problem getting there if you don't spend your money on stupid things like leasing/new cars or overly expensive vacations. Everything you save in the early years compounds so much that you'll likely have no problems spending much more after 5-10 years when really your investments start to bring in the same or more as your salary.

Startups are for lottery. So if you have saved a nice amount you can start playing it and see if you can get to the next level and get to 10M+. But otherwise big (and better companies on the way to get there) will be a much much safer bet.

32 bit vs 64 bit

Or the $500k+ you can earn. Most of the people in that region have at least a masters degree and likely more.

That's what I'm working on right now. It's just that I can use all this expertise around me to do it. Everything repeats in technology and what you learned can and will be applied to new trends like Ethereum.

I don't recommend anyone to really go to Google to work on the future (besides perhaps if you want to get an edge in AI). It's just that SV has a lot of people that have accumulated experience while building Google, FB, etc and that helps a lot no matter what comes next. You get a lot of experience and people able and willing to take risks which is a nice basis to build something new.

The resources you can have are so limited in comparison what you can do if you are on the right project with the right people at for example Google. You will not find a free or open project that will be able to compete with the data, resources, and knowledge you will find there. Besides that it's much faster to learn from someone who knows than finding the right material online. And in the end most world-class projects will have someone that works or worked in SV in them because that's where they got a lot of their experience.

Because mostly only big companies choose their destination. For the rest it's where they live when they found the company. So if more people in Chicago found tech companies you'll get more tech companies. That's the reason SV is a self-feeding machine. People work at one of the many startups or big companies here, get experience, get money, and then part of them start their own companies. That's the circle that drives SV and because it gets stronger each time it's hard for any other city or region to really catch up.

I agree that there are nice options in the US and you'll have a much more comfortable life. But if you want to learn as much as you can, if you want to have as many options as you could possible have, and quiet frankly earn as much as you could, you'll likely should move to SV and no other place in the US will even come close to that. The bleeding edge of technology is and will be in SV and China (and China is not really an option for most people).

The problem is with social networks that the network itself is the valuable basis. It doesn't really matter if we compare it to last mile or long distance. It's all about how much coverage you have. If you don't have enough you can't play the game. Even if you get momentum you will be crushed by a full coverage network like Facebook if they can't buy you (see Snap). So giving everyone coverage would solve this problem hence the comparison to AT&T.

Facebook really is exactly the same kind of monopoly as AT&T. You could see the network and even data related to it as the last mile. Technologies like blockchain could make this possible and give the user back control over their own data and network instead of giving it into the hand of one company.

I don't know anyone involved in this but based on the data given this is really just an acqui-hire so it's expected that they do that. They just buy the tech to be on the safe-side and will just store the source code somewhere and never use it again. Google hopes to get something out of the talent in the company but is likely very clueless and will waste their time in the end. They will filter bad people out but you'll still get slimmed down version of a normal interview with more flexible standards. So a much higher percentage of the interviewees will make it through the process.

I really don't get why we have these 'failures' always in the news and spin them as a successful exit (it's really just run out of money or have no hope of getting anywhere and that's why we want to sell). I went through it myself and you'll likely get some nice title at a nice company and a great stock packages but otherwise it's wasted time besides looking nice in your CV. For the company itself it just means it was a failure (could still mean nice tech but they would have went nowhere).

They should make sure they have the seats for their personnel and not sell them to customers. In every other business if you sell the same thing to two people I would call it fraud.

One of the first things I noticed after moving to Silicon Valley was that internet access here is surprisingly bad and expensive. You'll likely only have one choice and have to live with it. Most areas in Europe will give you faster, cheaper, and more options to choose from. I got used to it but still don't get why in the heart of tech you can't get 1 Gbit or even 100 Mbit connections for a reasonable price.

The median house price for Palo Alto is $2.6M. For SV it's much lower (~$1M). You can't just count the top location to get the median. But you'll likely get much nicer (bigger,better structure,etc) median houses in other areas.

I think it's also good if salaries are more transparent. I see too many people selling themselves short and thus getting lower salaries because they just don't know. If you're lucky you still get a nice salary but it's so much better to have an idea what you can ask for/should expect.

Glassdoor etc is nice but at least for SV most of the time just not accurate and in my experience on the lower limit. I'm not sure why but it could be that people just share more often when they start a job and not when they just don't care anymore after a few years while making a lot more at the same/next company.

Most salaries I see look accurate. E.g. at Google your stock vests over 4 years but at the same time you get refreshers every year. So after starting and getting each successive year refreshers you start having all the amounts of 4 years vest in one year every year.

Also very often if you switch these days companies offer you to buy your stocks out so you don't even loose the value when you switch companies.

If you want to earn more you should still move. In Germany base salary is pretty much your salary as the variable part is pretty limited. Here in SV it is just about half of your salary if you work for a while here. It will also pay with experience that will make you much more 'valuable' for companies outside of SV when you move back at one point.

Another option is to just go to Switzerland (e.g. Zurich). You still have German/similar culture but will earn salaries like here in SV with much less taxes. Similar cost of living but after you payed your basic needs everything else above is just a lot more to safe for your future or enjoy life with (and if you invest in stock you don't even pay a cent for long term gains in Switzerland which makes it even more attractive the more you accumulated over time).

The country you're looking for is Delaware.

Especially if they want to keep parts like Splitter and Joiner and just copy them over. I just ran into too many libraries that copied Guava into their own namespace and now your project depends on x different copies of Guava indirectly. Besides that I find it strange to get rid of ImmutableList as I don't see any usable alternative. I also find the newXXX methods very helpful and much more readable (e.g. Maps#newHashMapWithExpectedSize) and preferable over constructor usage even with the diamond operator as it also allows you to change the implementation afterwards.

H1B is just too limited and you need a lot of luck and good timing to get it. So I would choose another way (besides trying to win the Greencard lottery, which you can try once a year):

1. Apply for Google in Zurich (or for that matter any other big company near Zurich with a big office in the US)

2. After a year transfer to the US. You get a L1 visa without a problem. There's no limit for this type of visa like e.g. the H1B has and if you're married your wife or husband is also allowed to work.

3. If you'd like to stay for longer start the greencard process as soon as you arrive in the US with the help of your company. If you're a Swiss citizen this should take between 1-1.5 years.

With a master from ETH I would expect 100k+ plus equity. If it's a later stage startup or a bigger company the base salary will be higher plus an extra bonus (stock will be on top of that). Everything else would be a weak offer and you should probably reject.

I wouldn't care about housing before you have a job here. There's no usable public transport here (Caltrain works, but only if your home and work are close enough to one of the stations and it's also not very reliable. So not comparable to Zurich at all). If you use your car to get to work you should expect lots of traffic, so I would always prefer to be close to work. With your background you should earn enough to find something.

You will earn more and have less taxes in Zurich and your living standard will be higher in Switzerland. But here in Silicon Valley you will learn more and the weather is more enjoyable than in Zurich.