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Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

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Re: Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

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Post by CoastalCoder »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #274
bcx wrote: post #130

It’s been a while since we had sf offices, but back when we did sf had a pretty aggressive additional payroll tax and gross receipts taxes. I’d imagine this is likely a factor in the decision. I know for a while they were waiving some of these taxes for companies who set up offices in certain parts of the city. E.g. zendesk got a big tax break for its market street location near the tenderloin. As for commutes, I’d b…

Didn't Elon also give a politically motivated reason for moving his HQs out of California? [1] [1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

I could imagine him having a variety of reasons, but in certain situations pretending it's only one of them, to apply pressure.

I don't have any special knowledge in this situation, I'm just drawing on my understanding of people.

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Post by John23832 »

oceanplexian wrote: post #286
consteval wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because in reality, as in statistically, SF is actually not that dangerous. People say this about any vaguely blue city, which is almost all of them. But they forget Urban areas are very dense. You're actually more likely, per capita, to die to gun violence in rural America. It's just very hard to see that because the coverage isn't there and the actual amount of deaths is lower.

> You're actually more likely, per capita, to die to gun violence in rural America. Isn’t the vast majority of gun violence suicide? Because if that’s the case than your statement is disingenuous, you’re not less safe in rural America if you’re worried about being shot on the way to the office.

If it is taken into consideration that a vast majority of gun deaths are suicides, that doesn't mean "the vast majority of gun deaths outside of ". Statistically the same proportion of gun deaths are suicides both in cities and out of cities.

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Post by ascorbic »

anon291 wrote: post #273

Realistically, X is better than its ever been; community notes have been a game-changer in terms of fact-checking. Higher quality and much more balanced.

Community notes predate Musk. They're a lot more common now, but they're needed more than ever too. Meanwhile spam is everywhere (except in the "probable spam" section) and all ads are scams.

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Post by triceratops »

mistrial9 wrote: post #279
dmix wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He said they want to move all the HQs to Texas, which implies they could still have offices in California just maybe smaller. This may be part of the plan. They are also opening a new Palo Alto office for xAI where they could move a lot of engineering talent as well. Which is likely the other big reason.

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Right?! What moron would hire intelligent, hard-working, attractive people? /s

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Post by orblivion »

chuckadams wrote: post #211
htrp wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More like the easy commute you had in San Francisco on muni (the bus and subway network of San Francisco) becomes an annoying hour and a half-long commute on bart (The regional train system) with 2-3 transfers

You need CalTrain to get to San Jose. BART should have gone all the way around the bay by now but CalTrain defends its turf like a honey badger.

They still haven't finished that leg? I was there 7 years ago and the plan was advertised on the maps.

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Post by janalsncm »

timeon wrote: post #302
tacker2000 wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

San Jose is very much a suburbia-type city, very spread out, downtown is rather small and you need a car 90% of the time, whereas SF is much denser. I assume the drug use/homeless issues are less prevalent in San Jose, at least it was that way 10 yrs ago.

> suburbia-type city Isn't this oxymoron? Isn't city the `urbia`?

Zoned for single-family housing or 1-2 story apartments mostly. There may be sidewalks (stroads) but almost everyone drives due to pedestrian accessibility issues.

Think “city, but instead of walking, you drive”.

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

recursive wrote: post #348
AlexandrB wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

~October 27, 2022. So yeah, about 2 years ago.

I have to admit, I have a loose understanding of what's going on with twitter or even how to use it. But my personal Mandela effect is that it didn't work right if you weren't logged in for a lot longer than that. I'm probably mis-remembering.

You used to be able to look at people's profiles, tweets and entire threads without being signed in. If you go to my profile today signed out you see tweets from before 2022. If you click on a tweet signed out, you only see that single tweet without context. Some of those changes are only a few months back.

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

anon291 wrote: post #273

Realistically, X is better than its ever been; community notes have been a game-changer in terms of fact-checking. Higher quality and much more balanced.

Readers added context they thought people might like to know:

Twitter misinformation about a tragedy started far-right riots in the UK the other day.

And Musk commented approvingly that civil war was inevitable.

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Post by rhinoceraptor »

anon291 wrote: post #273

Realistically, X is better than its ever been; community notes have been a game-changer in terms of fact-checking. Higher quality and much more balanced.

I see much more right wing content boosted by the algorithm now, and the paid checkmarks ensures every tweet's replies have low quality and bot replies filtered to the top.

The bot problem is also infinitely worse now, I rarely post anything so I have about two dozen legitimate followers, mostly people I know, and then I have a few hundred obvious bot account followers.

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