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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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Post by jahsome »

BigCryo wrote: post #87
zamnos wrote: post #71

https://www.linkedin.com/in/crazybob/ 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.

San Fran is filled with homeless schizophrenics... I would bet on one of them having killed him... Some of the mentally ill in the large cities are also addicted to meth or fentanyl

Baseless speculation is worth nothing.

San Fran is also full of diabetics. Maybe they were trying to steal his pancreas.

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

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Post by dmode »

farmaway wrote: post #96
dmode wrote: post #86

This is sad news, but as much as I am a critic of SF’s policies around homelessness and drugs, it is not a dangerous city that someone will get murdered. SF has one of the lowest homicide rates of big cities. For some perspective, Oakland has half the population of SF and almost 3x the murder rate https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-...

>as much as I am a critic of SF’s policies around homelessness and drugs, it is not a dangerous city that someone will get murdered. If you read the article, you'll find that SF is a dangerous city in which someone was just senselessly murdered.

A random act of violence can happen anywhere. Objectively, SF is not a dangerous city when it comes to violent crimes. In 2000s, SF was indeed a violent city with triple digit murders.

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

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Post by martin_a »

Can someone very briefly wrap this whole "SF is broken"-situation up for somebody from Europe?

I only ever read that it's "because of the policies" and there are lots of rather disturbing videos about SF making its rounds on YouTube.

But what exactly happened? Did they just remove all the police? Did they gave out free drugs to everybody?

I'm not interested in blaming political parties, I just want to get a quick grasp of what exactly has happened.

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

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Post by dmode »

corbulo wrote: post #94
dmode wrote: post #86

This is sad news, but as much as I am a critic of SF’s policies around homelessness and drugs, it is not a dangerous city that someone will get murdered. SF has one of the lowest homicide rates of big cities. For some perspective, Oakland has half the population of SF and almost 3x the murder rate https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-...

How is this a comment on...this...article...what even

I am responding to most other comments on this post where people seems to spew their personal agenda about a city

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

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Post by jeswin »

bmau5 wrote: post #73

This is so tragic. I can only hope this helps spur action to curb crime in the city. RIP Bob :(

> spur action to curb crime in the city

If crime is increasing in large US cities (as a trend), there'll be a lack of will in the media to write a story about it.

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

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Post by zamnos »

BigCryo wrote: post #87
zamnos wrote: post #71

https://www.linkedin.com/in/crazybob/ 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.

San Fran is filled with homeless schizophrenics... I would bet on one of them having killed him... Some of the mentally ill in the large cities are also addicted to meth or fentanyl

Please don't do this here. A man has died, leaving family and friends, and an operating system (Android), and CashApp, among other things.

Whatever you may feel about San Francisco, could you do it somewhere else please?

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

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Post by TMWNN »

dmode wrote: post #86

This is sad news, but as much as I am a critic of SF’s policies around homelessness and drugs, it is not a dangerous city that someone will get murdered. SF has one of the lowest homicide rates of big cities. For some perspective, Oakland has half the population of SF and almost 3x the murder rate https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-...

That Oakland is a really, really, really dangerous city does not preclude the reality of San Francisco's increasing lawlessness.

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

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Post by tomandrews88 »

martin_a wrote: post #103

Can someone very briefly wrap this whole "SF is broken"-situation up for somebody from Europe? I only ever read that it's "because of the policies" and there are lots of rather disturbing videos about SF making its rounds on YouTube. But what exactly happened? Did they just remove all the police? Did they gave out free drugs to everybody? I'm not interested in blaming political parties, I just want to get a quick gra…

> I just want to get a quick grasp of what exactly has happened

TLDR: there are far fewer consequences for crime now in large cities like SF, NY, LA. The results are as expected.

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

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Post by EdwardDiego »

tomandrews88 wrote: post #100

Funny how people try so hard to show/prove/argue that SF is safe. If it was, these discussions wouldn’t exist. You won’t see these threads about Zurich, just saying.

I'm pretty sure you would see these threads about Zürich if you were in a net community that has a substantial proportion of members living in or near Zürich.
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