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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 hackernewds »

madrox wrote: post #4

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.

San Francisco, as you must be aware, has changed a LOT since pre-Covid. Arguably the administration and policies are surely to blame.

Hope this is a wake up call, but evidence points to the contrary in present day SF

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

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Post by happytoexplain »

farmaway wrote: post #46

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I didn't flag it, but if you read the comments here, there is confusion about whether it's even him (apparently the identity was only even mentioned in a now-deleted comment on the article), and there's also the usual amount of posts about SF that are just using the topic as an excuse to express partisan anger. Both are reasonable reasons to flag. If you jump to conspiratorial sarcasm so quickly, that contributes to the problem.

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

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Post by hackernewds »

etrautmann wrote: post #40
ethicalsmacker wrote: post #23

Sounds like SF to me. It has never been "nice". I was commuting to and from work there for over a year back in ~2015 and it was hell then. I interviewed around 2017 in SF and it was so bad I didn't dare walk back to the station (caught an Uber instead). It's a terrible place.

That’s ridiculous. I lived there 2014-2019 and it was delightful. Certainly many bad problems that weren’t getting fixed but ray to day life for most people wasn’t anything like the horror show it’s made out to be.

I lived there 2015-2019. A year less, but in my experience

5 car break-ins 2 bottles thrown to me 1 mugged, wallet gone Chased with an axe

These things happened at SoMa, which is objectively known to be a "nicer" neighborhood. The Tenderloin area definitely experiences worse. Surely everyone that has walked Market St or taken the train has seen things uncommon in most other urban American cities.

I struggle to understand how in SF we've gotten accustomed to downplaying these experiences.

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

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

DangitBobby wrote: post #27

Very strange title, given that it's not at all verified by the contents of the article. I guess I'll have to flag this one, maybe if it's verified someone can provide a different source for the submission? Edit: looks legit based on other new comments.

It’s corroborated by one of his friends on Twitter and you can also see an Open Graph image from the article before it removed his name: https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/164344881917319577...

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

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Post by the_third_wave »

happytoexplain wrote: post #49
fosk wrote: post #28

San Francisco has the notion that drugged up people out of their mind have the ability and the right to live in a civilized society.. Rule by common sense, not ideology.

Both sides of the SF topic are absolutely poisoned by ideology. It's a borderline un-discussable topic on the internet at this point, even on HN.

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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 somsak2 »

madrox wrote: post #4

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
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