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Why wouldn't you just take BART?
The scenery from the ferry is a hell of a lot nicer than the inside of a BART car?
Also less crowded, I think. I take the bus, for both reasons.
Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
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Re: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
#32I saw teo people shot not far from here, the windows of Obama's campaign HQ smashed in with hammers down the street, and a homeless man crap on the steps of city hall in broad daylight. Welcome to Oakland Uber.
Uber & Twitter are next to each other, beside the tenderloin. A block away from the tenderloin is nastier than 19th st oakland BART and lake merrit.
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Just curious, but how does someone get away with stealing a laptop during rush hour? I've lived in Oakland for about 6 months and I haven't seen anything like the crime you describe. Your description of congestion is spot-on, though.
Away from the station. On the sketchy block of Harrison between Grand and the Whole Foods. In the first incident, someone came running at me at full speed holding a laptop bag across his chest; I thought for about 300ms as he ran toward me about putting him on the ground because I thought he was running at me to attack me, but I moved to the side behind a pole and he kept running, then a (very very slow) security gua…
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Away from the station. On the sketchy block of Harrison between Grand and the Whole Foods. In the first incident, someone came running at me at full speed holding a laptop bag across his chest; I thought for about 300ms as he ran toward me about putting him on the ground because I thought he was running at me to attack me, but I moved to the side behind a pole and he kept running, then a (very very slow) security gua…
https://www.betabrand.com/blog/34270/make-your-laptop-invisi...
I upgraded from a very obvious laptop sleeve on strap to http://www.pacsafe.com/intasafe-z500-anti-theft-backpack.htm...
Steel wires through the straps, and looks like a backpack. I'm also big enough that unless it is rip and run, or a clear and unambiguous threat to my life, I'm not as concerned, so having a strap which won't break is enough.
Re: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
#35Oakland is already an attractive new location for tech companies. It is my sincerest hope that the policy-makers in Oakland see what happened in SF with housing, and are proactive in controlling rent to avoid displacing low-income people and most importantly, the people who contribute to the city's culture.
Because tech workers clearly fail to "contribute to the city's culture."
Largely they do.
Re: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
#36If Uber really wants to earn goodwill in Oakland (which is worth thinking about because the local anarchists are probably planning their protests already), it would be worth renovating the exterior of the building too. A lot of buildings in downtown Oakland have beautiful art deco facades that were covered up with ugly concrete facings in the 1950s in a misguided attempt to look more modern. Bringing out some of Oakland's original business history would garner a ton of long-term community goodwill.
Re: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
#37I'd heard this was going to be a Google office. Oh well. I wonder how much "not driving over the fucking bridge" is worth to people. Uber salaries tend to be pretty good (partially to make up for the stock being so high), and they have a great team, plus are clearly on a rocket ship trajectory, and are easy to explain as a product to anyone. Offering $150-250k cash, great overall packages, AND being able to buy or re…
Yes, I wish more legit companies would move to Oakland
Re: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
#38Re: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
#39If Uber really wants to earn goodwill in Oakland (which is worth thinking about because the local anarchists are probably planning their protests already), it would be worth renovating the exterior of the building too. A lot of buildings in downtown Oakland have beautiful art deco facades that were covered up with ugly concrete facings in the 1950s in a misguided attempt to look more modern. Bringing out some of Oakl…
I suspect Art Deco is already popular with Uber's leadership for other reasons :)
Re: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland
#40This is in addition to their new giant HQ in SF? Uber has an awful lot of overhead for a taxi company. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/28/uber-new-hq/
Uber has low overhead for a $50bn company.
They've already won vs taxis. Now they're going for courier services, buses, food delivery and even cleaning services. They aren't part of the sharing economy, they're trying to be the sharing economy.