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by kelp 3y ago
Just because this story isn't evidence of SF being lawless doesn't mean SF isn't lawless. Yes, many many people jumped to some terrible conclusions about SF because of this story. And by American standards SF isn't bad w
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by kelp 3y ago
He does seem to have a pathological case of thinking he knows the answer to everything, and then being quite wrong very frequently.
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by kelp 3y ago
I wanted a warehouse loft conversion. I got one. I had a ground floor entrance and my own 1 car garage that could even open into my living room. It was cool. But I cringed every time I wrote my property tax check. The neighborhood got worse
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by kelp 3y ago
> Again, you are under the spell of the assumption that if you give someone a gun, it somehow magically changes them into willing to kill. Thats a very long reach. I was not saying that at all. I was specifically responding to the part o
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by kelp 3y ago
> Couldn't Whole Foods hire armed security to dissuade theft? I don't know. But I have directly seen security from the Target on 4th tackle someone in the middle of the crosswalk, and hit them repeatedly as they took back whate
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by kelp 3y ago
Yeah I moved to SF in 2009 and away in 2022. It got a LOT worse in the last few years, especially the area you talk about. In the early to mid 2010s I used to spend quite a bit of time in the TL. There were restaurants and bars there you&#x
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by kelp 3y ago
There kind of was a brief period, maybe 4 years? 2014 - 2018 or so when mid-market was looking up. Twitter was there. Square, and Uber. Businesses were moving in, buildings were getting renovated. Then it turned the wrong direction again, a
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by kelp 3y ago
> The rest would probably pursue deadly force even if they didn't have access to firearms. I hope I'm not making a straw man here, but I think your argument is that people who are going to resort to violence will find a way, ev
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by kelp 3y ago
I lived in SOMA until a year ago. We had a dog and I'd need to walk her in the evening, and before bed. I usually felt fine. My wife on the other hand did not like walking the dog in the evening. More often than not she'd have som
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by kelp 3y ago
According to a posting on yelp ( https://www.yelp.com/biz/harvest-urban-market-san-francisco ) Harvest Urban Market was shut down recently by the city due to major vermin infestation. Also it seems like they were threate
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by kelp 3y ago
Part of the different perceptions really depends on what part of SF you spend your time in and what parts you avoid. Yeah the city is only a 7x7 mile square. But block by block it can be dramatically different. Check out the map of violent
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by kelp 3y ago
I highly doubt the SF supervisors spend any time consulting actual experts on anything.
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by kelp 3y ago
I know you're kind of joking. But ever been to Rio de Janeiro? Every restaurant and store in the nice neighborhoods, like Ipanema and Leblon has a least one guard. Sit down at outdoor seating at any restaurant in those areas and there
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by kelp 3y ago
The Bob Lee thing was incredibly unfortunate (I used to work with Bob) but violent crime is actually fairly low in SF compared to similar sized cities in the US. However property crime is not low. And downtown, TL, SOMA etc are full of tent
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by kelp 3y ago
Because their previous Bluetooth implementation was broken in various ways, and no one volunteered to fix it. So they just removed it.
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by kelp 4y ago
He left Square in 2014... 9 years is some pretty stale information. This makes no sense.
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by kelp 4y ago
Whistleblower with 9 year old information? He left Square in 2014...
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by kelp 4y ago
A few things about Bob that I found remarkable. He was incredibly hard working, in the early days of Square he owned the engineering hiring process and was on the interview panel for every engineer up through the company having hundreds o
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by kelp 4y ago
Your margins are going to end up being a lot better than any other PaaS that's built on top of the big cloud providers.
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by kelp 4y ago
For a while in the early 00s one of those SPARCstations, I forget if it was the 1 or the 2, was doing NAT and firewalling for my home network. I ran OpenBSD on it. I remember it taking multiple days to do a 'build world' and in th
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by kelp 4y ago
I had a NeXT Station with monitor and keyboard, Sun SPARCstation 1, 2, and 5. Let them all go for cheap in the mid 00s because I didn’t want them taking up space.
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by kelp 4y ago
I almost went for a Classic II. I took my first real typing class on one of those, so the nostalgia is real.
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by kelp 4y ago
I didn't know about Prodigy Reloaded. Certainly going to keep an eye on that. Just wanted to share my versing of this. Over the last couple of months I dove into the vintage Macintosh community. In the process of restoring a Macintosh
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by kelp 4y ago
I was at Square from 2011 - 2017 and talked to Jack pretty often, including about how he managed his time. And his calendar was public. When I was at Square and Jack was also working at Twitter, he split his days evenly across both companie
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by kelp 4y ago
The wildfire smoke every year impacts millions of people in the west. Just this summer I was watching the Mosquito fire updates daily to see if we were going to have to evacuate. Fortunately it rained and prevented that. There were days whe
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by kelp 4y ago
Yeah, you could be right. And from a very quick look, Viasat doesn't just have their prices right on the front page.
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by kelp 4y ago
It says right on the front page: "High-speed, low-latency, in-flight internet with connectivity across the globe. $12,500/mo-$25,000/mo with a one-time hardware cost of $150,000. Reserve now with deliveries starting in 2023.&
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by kelp 4y ago
I met with the founders sometime in the second half of 2017, I think before they had launched. I was looking for an eng leadership job and the just wanted / needed ICs. So it didn’t go anywhere. But I came away with a strong sense that
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by kelp 4y ago
That is literally what happened. There is nothing brazen here.
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by kelp 4y ago
You can see on their jobs page and 'our story' page, they are mostly in the US and The Netherlands.

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