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Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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He was Chief Product Officer at MobileCoin. Hopefully we learn who stabbed him, and why. 43 is just way too young. Thoughts go out to his wife. He was instrumental in creating Android. Whatever you may think of it today, we wouldn't have it if it weren't for him.

Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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I lived a block from here prior to Covid, and I would've called this a safe part of town. Honestly incredible there was a stabbing there. My condolences to the family. The guy was too young.

post COVID, SoMa is maybe second only to the tenderloin in how overrun it is by the homeless

Some parts of SoMa, this is true, like 4th Street+.

The area where this man died is known as Rincon Hill and is dominated by tech offices, Sweetgreens, and luxury highrise apartment buildings and is basically dead after 8pm every day of the week. I lived a block away from where this man was stabbed for a month and it felt safe and dead quiet once all the tech workers go home.

Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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People here saying SF is dangerous, the homicide rate is less than 3 per 100k people. I wouldn’t call it dangerous by any means. Shit happens.

I’d consider that dangerous when you compare it to the ~10x lower rate in Western Europe

Re: Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

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People here saying SF is dangerous, the homicide rate is less than 3 per 100k people. I wouldn’t call it dangerous by any means. Shit happens.

Where did you get that 3 per 100k from? In each of the last 2 years there were 55 homicides in SF from what I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of New York, which is half of SF's rate?

https://sfist.com/2023/01/03/sf-sees-exact-same-number-of-ho... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

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