<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>replicatorblog</author><text>&amp;quot;official&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;FTEs is one way to slice it, but kind of dumb.&lt;p&gt;Seattle is home to two of the five biggest tech companies in the US.&lt;p&gt;Boston has had an IPO every year for the last ten years that exceeds any in NYC history.&lt;p&gt;LA has had the only 11-digit IPO in the last five years, outside of the bay area. It&amp;#x27;s also capturing the zeitgeist in a way that NYC no longer does (that&amp;#x27;s subjective, of course, but I&amp;#x27;d debate it).&lt;p&gt;Just by market cap, Sydney&amp;#x27;s three biggest tech co&amp;#x27;s would are more impressive than NYC&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;NYC is an awesome startup city, but the idea that it&amp;#x27;s the clear #2 is silly.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech takes over: New York is the sector&apos;s second city</title><url>http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180226/FEATURES/180229939/new-york-is-the-tech-sectors-official-second-city-and-the-boom-is</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>CodeSheikh</author><text>I am not surprised to read this and also not sure what makes this article&amp;#x2F;publisher the assumed authority to christened NYC as #2. After Silicon Valley one might argue that Seattle has better tech than NYC but again NYC always has breadth and depth of diverse markets such finance, fashion, ads, hotel, food, law and education to name a few. Not to mention, easy access to EWR&amp;#x2F;JFK&amp;#x2F;LGA airports from European continent makes it easier for people to come here and get involved.&lt;p&gt;Updated: Improved verbosity</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Tech takes over: New York is the sector&apos;s second city</title><url>http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180226/FEATURES/180229939/new-york-is-the-tech-sectors-official-second-city-and-the-boom-is</url></story>