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I downloaded the municipal reporting app SF311 a week ago. Yesterday, I saw a pile of garbage on the sidewalk on the way to the gym and opened the app, snapped a pic and reported what I saw.

Walked back to car and it was cleaned up in under 2 hours! If you are tired of seeing the city in shambles-- I'm telling you, they want to hear from you and need help with residents' proactiveness. So download the app and start with your own neighborhood.

Apple https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sf311/id666635420?mt=8

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sfgov.sf311

Sorry that this happened to you. A secure home helps me a lot. Maybe get a couple of security cameras and reinforce your front door.

I’m a guy and I carry pepper spray and a pocket knife on me. People say spray is only for girls but that doesn’t make sense. It’s one of the best ways to neutralize a threat. I have one meant for joggers that I carry in my pocket that can be strapped to your hand.

Therapy is never a bad thing even if you don’t have any issues. I highly recommend it. Check with your work if it is offered in your insurance plan or through a different program at work.

I hope you make a fast recovery and the cops bust that guy!

Edit: I carry this one because it’s a gel so it’s more concentrated. The strap goes around your hand so if you were to fall and need to brace for impact it still stays in your hand.

Have it somewhere you can easily draw it like a jacket pocket or hand and not in your bag. You don’t have enough time to take it out in an attack.

DEFINITELY practice spraying at different distances and drawing it so you get comfortable using it.

Sabre RED Pepper Gel Spray - Police Strength - Runner with Adjustable Hand Strap

He was found. His mother confirmed it in a message to a Facebook group.

SFPD should really update on Twitter since they asked the public for help.

Not sure this link will work for anyone but it is from Nextdoor.

from Nextdoor

Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083146BCX/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_1C5W3HN631JQ3M0F9889

If the bin wheels have spokes you could also just use a simple padlock.

Of course you’ll have to get the timing right with pickup which will be a pain.

San Francisco at one point was the headquarters of Bank of America AND Wells Fargo, 2 of the "Big 4" banking institutions in the nation. In addition, SF was the largest city in California for a long time before Los Angeles started booming.

In fact, in the early 1900's city leaders wanted to create a super San Francisco by annexing Oakland in the East Bay and connecting the two, similar to how boroughs were created in New York creating a metropolis of 4 million people.

https://www.amazon.com/Imperial-San-Francisco-California-Geography/dp/0520250087

This book gives much insight on how SF gained immense power but gradually lost its ground to Los Angeles. The two main reasons are lack of land and a deepwater port.

Finally a test of the two apps I had downloaded, eQuake and Earthquake Network Pro. I had been leaning towards eQuake cause it seems like there are more users... Nope! The only one that alerted was Earthquake Network. It was so close it couldn't give advance notice, but it went off within seconds and eQuake didn't pick up a damn thing.

Edit: Link to the one that worked (non-pro version, I have the pro but it probably works the same) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finazzi.distquake

Just morally bankrupt? Its hard to say. To be 100% honest with you, as long as Uber treats me fairly and the drivers fairly and continues their level of service I will probably never stop using Uber - its already hard to go back to taxis. Its also hard for me to fault the company, as a black person, because despite the fact they are "frat bros", they do make it easer for minorities to find a cab.

Lastly, I am posting this from an Apple laptop, and I do own an Apple iPhone so I do believe its pretty hypocritical of me to stop supporting Uber because of a snipe remark even though their offices aren't surrounded by suicide nets.

I'm not saying I'm not disappointed with whats come out of that company recently, but if I'm supposed to lose sleep over the actions of corporate America, I would have stopped sleeping a long time ago.

For some reason r/sanfrancisco has attracted a core group of super angry, super judgmental followers who pretty much represent the exact opposite of the people I meet here IRL. They seem obsessed with judging their neighbors and attacking anyone less fortunate, while foaming at the mouth about how difficult the city is for them. Why the fuck are they here? Seemingly to lash out and gnash teeth like rage zombies and pass on their bitterness and anger to anyone not yet infected. Well, too fucking bad. If you need me, i'll be out having fun, eating some great food, and enjoying how beautiful the trees around here look in the moonlight.

imo it's better to have one non-crazy person there than say 5 tweakers. I'd leave him be for now, if it becomes more than 1 person I'd kick them out.

If it's just him and you know him from the past couple years and you know he's safe, I'd leave him some books and baby wipes. I'd have a talk with him, "hey man, I don't mind you sleeping here but please don't leave any garbage around and please don't mess with my car."

You could call him a MAP van (Mobile Assistance Patrol) which is a homeless outreach van. They'll see if he needs medical care or blankets.

It can be found here from the apple store and here from the android store. I use it all the time.

Sounds like you're renting a bunk in a bunk bed in a hacker house of sorts. If AirBnB support is refusing to do anything, you're probably SOL, since you have no lease. The amount they're charging you doesn't matter either; it's a short-term rental, so if people are paying day-to-day or week-to-week, if the host raises the cost, that's that.

You can report the host to the proper authorities if they're breaking any of the SF requirements. They'd get a fine, but it's highly unlikely you'd be compensated in any way, and then you'd all be out of a place. ¯\_(ツ)_\/¯

The article didn't say what the "city’s registration requirements" that the city is proposing to require AirBNB to enforce.

It looks like the requirements are pretty sane. See https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/871/san-francisco--ca

AirBNB already meets a lot of requirements like collecting 14% Transient Occupancy Tax and providing liability insurance. The other requirements that the host has to meet look to me:

• pay planning department a fee of $50 before listing your place
• live in the place you list 275 days per year or more
• the amount you charge has to be inline with rent control if you're rent controlled renter.

That seems pretty reasonable.

there was an informative reply over at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312856

>As one of the volunteers operating the existing Market St. WiFi and the housing project WiFi, I can say that this is definitely being discussed and evaluated, but I don't have a lot of hope for the Department of Technology making anything happen. They have deeply-rooted relationships with large telcos and utilities that have granted them good deals on easements to lay their existing fiber and copper paths. If the city started offering competing services for money, it would throw those relationships in jeopardy. It's really too bad, as a lot of the dark fiber resources are already in place to build a decent backbone that could support radial paths out different neighborhoods. However, there's very little technical clue (if you're a competent network engineer in the Bay Area, why would you work for a city? ick.) and political capital/gumption towards making this happen. The layer 0 - 7 stuff is easy. It's layer 8 and above (money, politics, humans) that make this hard to accomplish. If you're an SF resident, call or write your supervisor. Let your opinion be heard and demand proper infrastructure! Fiber is becoming the new roads; how you get your product to market. Municipalities need to step up and get building, because the big utilities and ISPs sure as hell aren't. reply |

The hotel room shortage is so bad at Dreamforce this year that they booking people on a cruise ship that will be parked downtown for the duration of the event.

http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF15/dreamboat.jsp

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There was a post just a few days ago - I know it was in DC on the East Coast - but a guy bought a storage unit and remodeled it into a loft, with the sole purpose of renting it out on AirBnB. Found here

I'm sure not everyone is buying place just to completely remodel them and rent them out, but I do believe there are plenty of people who buy multiple properties just to rent them out or put them up on AirBnB.

Take for instance this AirBnB renter from Lake Tahoe, whose profile states he has many rentals that he lists on over 50 websites. Funny enough that he also has a chip on his shoulder about Bay Area renters...

Drove to the mountain home Inn, hiked up and back down and then had lunch at the inn. Was awesome. See the trails in the link.

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/mountain-home-inn-to-mount-tam-east-peak?p=-1

Well, I hope the tenant made enough money renting out her place via AirBnB that she saved something up to get another apartment: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1962247

I guess everyone wants to make some money in this market.

There is a lot more data in EXIF than finder shows. If you PM me the original files I can send you the full EXIF data. If you want to do it yourself exiftool is a great tool.

I would recommend reading San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture to any one interested in Chinatown. Its in the San Francisco Public Library system and it really illuminates the unique history of the neighborhood and its importance in the history of both San Francisco and China itself (Sun Yat-sen was based out of there for a number of years).

Apparently Chinatown's architectural heritage is unique compared to almost every other Chinatown in the United States and the western world.

You're welcome to disagree but that doesn't change the fact that most food borne illness will take the better part of a day to kick in. The pathogens simply don't multiply that quickly.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/food-poisoning/symptoms-causes/syc-20356230

BART says the poster is "profane" and it uses coarse language. ACLU says that the government shouldn't discriminate based on the work's message. It seems unlikely to me that the government can be required to post absolutely any text or image. I can think of a few that would probably be equal protection violations.

If you read the ACLU's letter, it turns out the artist offered to change the wording but BART rejected that offer. This makes me more sympathetic to this artist, although it's not clear what range of alternatives the artist was willing to accept.

This book goes into great detail about how it all went down hill after the Summer of Love. Fantastic read about SF History.

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love

Telemarketers have started spoofing numbers with the same prefix as the victim’s because they think you are more likely to respond to calls that look local to you. I checked and over the last month over 75% of my incoming calls were scams. This basically means telephony has become useless. I am using this trick to block callers who aren’t already in my address book:

http://osxdaily.com/2016/11/10/block-unknown-callers-no-caller-id-iphone/

She found it used at Green Apple but Amazon link for those interested.

Edit: I really don't think this is the kind of book people should get offended by.

Edit 2: Source of the maps from the introduction in the book.

I'm not so sure. I've been reading into PurpleAir's testing and it seems that their method of using the collection of sensors that read in real-time gives a better picture of actual air quality, as opposed to the EPA's averaging of AQI across large distances and time frames.

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Weather Underground uses PurpleAir sensors for the air quality reports.

Why do tech companies hire so many assholes? Why are fratty dickheads like that in PR positions anywhere?

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/478548529606979586/5QuglvNz.jpeg

Comparing SF's budget with other cities' to make some point or another about waste or liberalism run amok is a classic mistake. While comparing any two city budgets is notoriously difficult San Francisco tends to look bad for all the reasons you mentioned.

Off the top of my head, two big things that SF's budget covers that LA's does not include the schools and the transit authorities.

I recently started using an app called Citizen (on iOS too I believe)... It has real time reports from monitoring the police scanner all plotted on a map.

It gives surprisingly detailed info and even followups (E.g. gunshots reported... police on the scene... police determined not gunshots but fireworks .etc). Plus there's chat & live video for each indecent so you can learn more there too. I've learned some interesting stuff on it (and sad stuff :\)

I swear I'm not a shill, I just like the app is all.

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really early. There are people there at like 8am camping out at the tables and grills. A single person will show up early and take the grill and tables around it for group that wont arrive until 12.

The easier thing to do is buy a cheap portable grill and just grill out on the grass. I have this one just for doing BBQs at Crissy field and you will see other people with similar grills doing the same thing https://www.amazon.com/Weber-121020-Go-Anywhere-Charcoal-Grill/dp/B00004RALJ/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=portable+grill&qid=1562293888&s=gateway&sr=8-10

Just a general PSA: If taken from a drone (I suspect it was), be careful there. Some places have been going after people flying drones above crowds. You could get some SERIOUS fines, possibly jail time (although unlikely), for that kind of maneuver.

Some consequnces...http://www.geekwire.com/2017/seattle-drone-pilot-gets-jail-time-faa-reports-increase-possible-collisions/

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Center-City-Drone-Philadelphia-Arrest-Donald-Trump-Protest-Cira-Centre-401599495.html

Non-annoying comment: cool photo comparison.

Back when my son was in elementary school, he read this book called "Al Capone Does My Shirts" - a fictional story based upon the real stories of the kids of Alcatraz employees who grew up on an island in the SF Bay. Of note was that the kids took a boat to school on the mainland, but if it was too foggy...no school!

Go to /r/startups, this sub is about SF and while there is a big VC community in the Bay, 99% of people in this sub aren't part of it and don't give a shit or actively despise it.

Even if they were connected and could help you they wouldn't because a) social media isn't hot any more, b) that's not how things work in the Bay and, c) you just admitted you're clueless and have more money than sense.

I'd slowly back away if I were you and come up with a different backstory so people can't associate you with this thread (which you should probably delete) because you're either going to get actively shunned or taken advantage of.

Get this book

I fell over on my bike in front of a ton of people and nobody openly laughed at me. GIF of it happening

My shoes clip into the pedals on my bike and I derped and forgot to unclip them.

thanks. I'm a local history fanatic myself, especially the hidden layers of indigenous, Spanish, and Mexican history.

Here is one of my favorite books about the subject, although there are many more:

https://www.amazon.com/History-Alta-California-Memoir-Mexican/dp/0299149749/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1531865288&sr=8-1&keywords=alta+california

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/san-francisco/94103/air-quality-index/347629

Accuweather is predicting an AQI of 693 tomorrow. If it really gets this bad, people are going to die.

Actually you'd be surprised why people choose to live on the streets. Don't assume that because someone is on the street and not in a shelter, that he wants to live a life of zero responsibility.

http://m.newsok.com/article/3911672

http://hubpages.com/politics/why_homeless_people_avoid_shelters

(You can find similar stories by Googling "why do homeless avoid shelters".)

Shelters often times are actually less safe, and because they are densely packed, your stuff is at risk of being stolen. They're also great places to pass disease around through the air, and they operate during specific hours. And sometimes, those hours clash with the homeless person's job. (Yes, homeless people can have jobs.)

this subreddit is a pretty terrible place to get information about SF, sorry about that. your downvotes are a demonstration of the inexplicable mindset SF redditors have of "if you dont already know something, we're not going to tell you." not helpful to visitors.

maybe frommers.com or lonelyplanet.com will have some information you will find useful. i hope the people you encounter in the city in real life are friendlier.

http://wikitravel.org/ is a very good resource as well.

> tech companies ended up contributing millions of dollars towards public services

I work for a tech company and, like most people in California, around 10% of my salary goes to California state taxes. Isn't that money being used for public services? Where exactly is it going?

When you combine it with federal tax, Californians pay roughly the same as Canadians in Toronto - except Canadians get free health care for their trouble. Oh, and Toronto has decent public transit.

It's "Lexi"

https://nextdoor.com/agency-post/ca/san-francisco/sf-film-commission/reminder-neighborhood-meeting-tonight-to-discuss-upcoming-filming-in-eureka-valleycastro-100323136/

"CBS Films Inc. and the creators of “The Hangover” and “Bad Moms” are coming to Eureka Valley/Castro to film scenes for a feature film on the intersection of Sanchez Street and 16th Street on Wednesday January 23rd, Thursday January 24th and Friday January 25th, 2019. "

In case you're wondering, the artist/journalist is Ivy League educated from Connecticut. Her father is also a famous journalist. East Coast elite like Cagle view new money as their enemy. Tech is a threat to their social status. This "journalist" is upset because all of her fathers newspaper connections are now worthless and "tech" is to blame.

Don't get fooled by this, they are against SF in every way. This is an external threat to California and our city. They want to maintain the east-coast's power over California.

You'll never once hear these people make a suggestion on how to make California better. Their intention is to keep us under their heel.

If she's interested in fighting against evil powers keeping the poor down, Susie Cagle should move back to New York and cover the banks.

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

Android user here. Ever since Google Maps introduced real time transit info I've grown to rely on it almost completely. There have been a few no-show buses though, so if I'm in a rush and want to make sure the next bus is coming as scheduled my go-to is Quicky Transit.

Makes sense, i guess.

I was reminded of postings like this, that just seem like tenant mills: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/15130852

This one in particular looks fairly cheap. But I remember finding many like this in another city when I was looking to book a trip recently. They were not cheap, and I couldnt help wonder how many of them existed, displacing actual long-term tenants.

Edit; I'm also going to personally disagree with u/Forest-G-Nome. A father renting out his son's room for rolling short periods (i.e. not putting the room out to the local, long-term market) should be considered a hotelier.

If you have an iPhone or Android phone, call up a lyft. http://lyft.me/

I used to use uber / taxi magic / cabulous. Just tried it for the first time a few weeks ago and I haven't used anything else since.

• Drivers are ridiculously friendly (fist bumps all around)
• You don't have to worry about cash / card / whatever (all the payment stuff is stored in the app)
• You can see where the driver is when they're on their way (GPS)
• The fares are CHEAP (and they include tip!)

BA Hiker has some good suggestions. I always recommend the book "Stairway Walks in San Francisco" (link goes to Amazon, but please buy from your local bookstore).

> and you know as well as I do that most housing is not built for the poor.

That's because the market rate is so high, due to decades of stupidity that won't be undone easily or soon, that the only people that can afford them are people who aren't poor.

Compare the ratio of housing units to jobs that have been created in Seattle (Far lower prices due to better policies and none of the disastrous impact people like you predict) versus SF: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2017/04/28/san-francisco-seattle-housing-production-pipelines.html

When this little housing is being built per job the people that are going to be able to outbid others are those whose jobs offer the most income. It's a simple matter of supply and demand, and the city and state have absolutely crippled the supply side. That means that, disproportionately, the people who have the highest demand for what relatively little housing stock the city has available are those that are going to be able to afford high cost housing, even "luxury units" (not sure how this is defined). And of course the city is turning out very high paying jobs. The solution is to allow supply and demand to equilibrate.

A great example of success is the megacity of Tokyo. Like SF they require earthquake proof/resistant housing, which is another false excuse used to justify SF's housing. Despite the enormous population, far higher than SF, prices are much lower and have actually been falling despite a continually increasing population, which of course means increasing demand. The reason is clear, far far simpler zoning laws, an inability for others to protest construction unless there's genuinely a clear detrimental impact on them (pollution, even noise, of some sort would be an obvious example), and a generally far more laissez-faire (ooh, scary word) approach: https://www.google.com/search?q=tokyo+falling+housing+prices+zoning

People like you need to put down Marx and pick up Capitalism and Freedom.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thetransitapp.droid&hl=en

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/transit-real-time-app-for/id498151501?mt=8

This uses people's location when they are using the route feature to catch a specific bus, and updates live bus locations by using people's geo-location. It was accurate for me even through the rainstorm on Wednesday night with all the delays.

I tried a quick google...

> A single-vehicle rollover is usually not caused by a steering maneuver. Instead, the vehicle usually has to "trip" on something, such as when it swerves into a curb, pothole, or a soft roadside shoulder. The government has estimated that 95 percent of rollovers result from trips. Some observers say that number is too high. If a vehicle leans in such a way that a tire's sidewall deforms and the wheel rim strikes the pavement and provokes a tip-up, then the government counts that as a tripped rollover.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/02/rollover-101/index.htm

https://weatherspark.com/y/557/Average-Weather-in-San-Francisco-California-United-States-Year-Round

That includes rain, clouds, comfort, wind, and more. Much of SF gets significant wind. If you wear a t-shirt when it's breezy and 15-20 degrees C, you can do that often in SF.

Sequoia is 4-5 hours away depending on traffic and whether you lane split (legal in CA but not in all states). Other great places are much closer, but some like Yosemite are still a few hours away.

Most of the other side of the bay, or inland from the coast has warmer and more sunny weather, but you probably won't want to commute to SF from there.

https://www.dropbox.com/account#

After you log in, you can see all the devices that have logged in from dropbox. However, doesn't work for my phone, so I don't think it'd work for your tablet either.

> taking advantage of your position by AirBnB'ing out rooms you don't own is bullshit

I dunno if that's true. If your landlord is cool with it, I don't see why you couldn't airbnb an apartment you're renting. airbnb has a whole section dedicated to subletting.

Seems like staying inside, trying to keep the dust off the floors, and using an air purifier is a good idea at this point. If you have a car, you can get a cheapish place on Hotwire.com and spend a night in Monterrey - where the air is much, much cleaner. If not for my family (who can't leave), I would be getting out of here myself.

FYI - this is a top rated air purifier for $205 + tax on Amazon, with prime 2 day delivery.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BTKAPUU?tag=thewire06-20&linkCode=xm2&ascsubtag=AgEAAAAAAAAAAOF0&th=1

Reviews of several purifiers:
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-air-purifier/

> The writer is a spokesman for a developer front group.

The writer is a woman who works in Employee Safety at Tesla.. She's not even listed on that page you linked.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leigha-beckman-5054a114

Nowhere? There are no paid positions at BARF. It's not even a formal organization really. It's just a bunch of pro-housing people who post to a newsgroup.

> when it comes to the issue of Talia Jane, what’s the bigger outrage here? A somewhat privileged young woman asking her boss for more money? Or an economy in which millions of Americans — even those working at successful corporations like Yelp — are increasingly underpaid?

The victim-blaming attack on Jane (which I admit is perhaps not the most sympathetic figure) proves the old maxim:

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." - Jay Gould

And completely ignores the real issue the author brings up.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lEENAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Wm0DAAAAIBAJ&dq=police-strike&pg=3681%2C2099320

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-07-09/news/ct-per-flash-firefighter-strikes-071020110709_1_fire-strikers-firefighters-strike-chicago-firefighters-union

I think they strike less because they have less contract disputes, and the police and firefighters themselves probably support the idea that they shouldn't strike for obvious reasons.

Anything build after 6/13/1979 is not covered by rent-control yet there are plenty of newer units on AirBnB. So it is feasible. Here's an example:

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/3207443

It is just seems that way because the vast majority of housing in SF was build before then and thus under rent control while newer building are mostly condos and large professionally manage apartment buildings that can strictly enforce rules against short term rentals.

As someone with brown skin, I've never been the victim of excessive force by the police, in fact most of my interactions with SFPD have been polite and cordial even when I'm part of a large protest, and a surprising amount of them know my mom who used to work at the Hall of Justice. I have noticed based on this post and another on Medium that there seems to be a growing number of bad seeds in the SFPD. Officer who seem to not have any connection with the community they patrol since they can't afford to live in the city with their wages.

> It's not a trivial difference, you're working off a basic misunderstanding and it's the kind of thing I have to correct on here almost daily.

Well, I try to go into every exchange allowing for the possibility that I could be wrong. Why let my ego get in the way of curing myself of some terrible ignorance?

Unfortunately, your post did not persuade me out of my position. To your comment on long term purchase contracts signed by big box stores, I have no problem with such a transaction. This is because both the retailer and the supplier voluntarily came to a consensus on the terms. Similarly, I would have no problem with a landlord and a tenant signing a 40 year lease with some agreed upon rate of rent increase. Such a transaction would be highly unlikely, but I have no problem with it in principle. What I do have a problem with is passing a law to set the rate of rent increase. Why? Because the rate of increase is not based on a consensus between buyer and seller. It is not set to reflect the scarcity or surplus that may exist in the market at a given time. It breaks the crucially important connection between prices and economic realities. Instead it uses laws and force to set prices. In his great book, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith goes into great detail about the lure of price controls, and how in nearly all cases it brings bad economic outcomes to the very markets it tries to serve. How in nearly all cases, it benefits a few at the expense of many. There are hundreds of examples and case studies of price controls in this great work, and by my current understanding, rent control is without question a type of price control.

>>The technology itself is usually world-improving, too, like how Uber makes it easier for a black person to hail a cab

>This is a joke, right?

Well, if you're black it's obviously not a joke. It's (black people not getting picked up by cabs) apparently very prevalent in New York. I found an article on it here.

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To be clear, what was released today was only a proposal for new regulations: http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/30/california-regulator-proposes-new-ride-sharing-rules-in-a-victory-for-uber-lyft-and-sidecar/

They still seem to be a far cry from the regulations cab drivers and companies are required to follow. There's currently a hard limit of 1500 licensed cab medallions in the city, for example, and whenever one is transferred, the new medallion owner - who is usually the primary driver of the cab, not the company - has to pay a $250,000 (no joke) transfer fee: http://www.sfmta.com/services/taxi-industry/medallions/medallion-transfer-program

Lyft / Uber / etc, meanwhile, can add as many new drivers as they want to meet demand.

Eh, you're likely in the minority of sane cyclists. The bike coalition is a nightmare of entitlement. Take a look at this, https://nextdoor.com/p/Gp-nttBC9zKQ?utm_source=share&extras=NjI4MTE0ODM%3D&init_source=copy_link_share.

Actually Iceland is the best deal around for international travel. SFO to Iceland is as low as $260 round trip.

I'm of the opinion that all people should have regular vacations and if you're doing it on a budget then Iceland is the way to go.

https://www.kayak.com/flight-routes/San-Francisco-SFO/Iceland-IS0

The article says that the cyclist had a green light. It's pretty hard to pin blame on someone for going through a green light.

So, the cyclist, coming to the intersection would have seen this

Along with a truck stopped on the other side of the street.

Now, you're suggesting what? That he should have stopped at the green light because obviously the truck was about to go?

I am a very light sleeper and my apartment is one of those old ones with wood tiling where I can clearly hear the neighbors talking in the shower or when they wake up upstairs to get a drink at night, I'd happily recommend these earplugs.

Haha. I adore this city, but reading The Design of Everyday Things will reveal to everyone just about how awful the interface is on these train systems.

I have a Clipper card and I've given my parents SIM cards and Clipper cards explicitly so that they can land here and get around in case there's trouble and I can't get to them.

None of these systems are set up for the ticket buyer. They're all Clipper-centric.

I've never had trouble with the WiFi, though. Thought it was a positive, honestly.

And you can catch the SFO/Millbrae-Pittsburgh/Bay-Point train to go straight to Millbrae. The San Bruno connection is sub-par because the Caltrain station and BART station are twenty minutes apart on foot.

Not sure about Uber specifically, I drive for sidecar. It used to be "donation-based," but not anymore. After the CPUC's ruling just a few months ago, the exchange of money is classified as payments.

More info here.

There's so many options now (Lyft, Uber, Sidecar) I don't bother with cabs anymore. With these companies, you know when your ride is coming, the car won't smell like smoke, you're likely to have a friendly driver, and there's no cash exchanged!

Pretty sure it was actually a douchey tech bro in this case, since this is the PR guy they had replying to questions about the ad campaign, who made flippant and insulting comments to local media.

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/478548529606979586/5QuglvNz.jpeg

You have that backwards. I'd believe 75-80% have NO earthquake insurance. Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/25-years-after-bay-area-quake-most-dont-have-earthquake-insurance-2014-10-17

Several quotes from that article: "The average premium in 2014 on earthquake insurance in San Francisco County was $2,156"

"The number of earthquake insurance policies in California has dropped to just 10% of homes statewide, down from 34% in 1994, according to Risk Management Solutions, a Hayward, Calif.-based company."

San Bruno & 20th at the Potrero Hill community garden

I've lost the link, but someone on Hacker News posited that the problem is that Google (or any other large tech company) looks like a "functioning welfare state", whereas San Francisco is a broken one; they provide transportation, food, and recreation for their employees in a way that San Francisco can't or doesn't for its citizens. The analogy isn't perfect, of course; a real welfare state wouldn't kick you out for failing to hit your performance targets.

But the underlying problem that the protestors have is that San Francisco is providing services that are meh-level at best to its citizens, who then see the techies as occupying a class above them. And this breaks the illusion of a classless society in a way that really rankles us as Americans. (The one percent tend to be very careful not to do this sort of thing.)

There's no such private bus infrastructure in New York, or Chicago, or Dublin, because those cities have functioning infrastructure. But if you go to a place like Atlanta, where white flight moves people to the suburbs and drains the city coffers, the upper and middle classes build a new, more exclusive infrastructure and stop sharing risk with the people they left behind.

The point is, it's not Google that underfunded public transit for decades on end; it's not Google that created the cancerous car culture in California; it's not Google that chronically underbuilt housing in the region.

It is a problem that there's a separate infrastructure that works for only some of the people. But if you try to tear down that infrastructure, that won't, by itself, fix the underlying issues that caused its creation in the first place. And I've seen no indication that "Heart of the City" or Rebecca Solnit or anyone else involved in the protesting understand that.

i've never had that problem. i put them on my face and press the wire at the top down so it forms a good seal around my nose. i've also gone with somewhat pricey KF94 masks but kept coming back to the surgical masks because of how easy they are to get and how cheap they are.

i've been using these lately. they come in a box but in the box are individually sealed 10 packs of masks. i just keep the pack in my gym bag.

I got this spaghetti sauce from Amazon/WF. The label says it's CA tomatoes, CA garlic, pacific sea salt.

If I owned a souvenir shop -I would sell it there- along side local wine, and stuff. I think it could be a nice, california themed gift for someone. maybe in a CA themed gift basket.

Thanks so much to the Mods for this space to post my dumb shit...

Yes, but...

That's the entire history of philanthropy.

Check out https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Will-Not-Funded-Non-Profit/dp/0822369001

For some reason I had this funny image of a really jacked up raccoon knocking over those big black trash receptacles (that WM/recology uses). Dang those are some strong raccoons. :O There are straps you can buy on Amazon that you can put across the top to prevent the trash from spilling.

What does those numbers mean? It seems different than the AQI.

Do you have a mask? I was wearing one inside the house today and it was helping me feel better (less coughing).

I am waiting for this to arrive from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BTKAPUU?tag=thewire06-20&linkCode=xm2&ascsubtag=AgEAAAAAAAAAAOF0&th=1
Top rated (small) purifier, $225.
More info on other purifiers and ratings: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-air-purifier/

> I don't want to give up what little parking there is left.

This is a joke right? Nearly every street is lined with parking in this city. Drivers don't own the roads and to be livid about a rode that is the single north-south bike route in the city is entirely entitled and selfish.

You're entire second paragraph presumes that cyclists themselves are to blame for their own deaths because some break the law. Time and time again this has been shown to be false. Cyclists die at the hands of negligent drivers all the time.

The way you can make bikes, cars, pedestrians, and public transit coexist is to stop prioritizing cars over everything else, period. Removing some ~~free~~ subsidized street parking is necessary. This isn't going to ruin your ability to mooch off the rest of us for your free parking space. It's just going to make a few streets safer so fewer people can use transportation alternatives without fucking dying.

Prop L got voted down by a huge margin. It's time for things to change.

> If you contract fora company and you don't like how they operate, why not just leave your job and find a different one?

Yes, because everyone has that much flexibility. /s

Not to mention that Uber, etc push car leases, etc on people along with their promises of big bucks.

Since the thieves mostly target car stereos (or so it seems in your case), why not call up a couple of junk yards to see if they have the OEM stereo for your car, and pick that up/install it? That way you can still have your tunes, but you'll be rocking your original stereo (or something close to it) and it won't be worth stealing.

Or you could do something like this.

YEP! May 14th the Planned Unit Development is being "reauthorized for less dwellings." This is an interesting one. I look forward to getting my hands on the original 1963 PUD, which evidently included plans for a 35 unit apartment building!

In 1976 that PUD was amended to plan for 5 duplexes instead of the apartment building. (pg 62 http://www.jacksonfuller.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/SF-Overlook-development-draft-EIR.pdf) What prompted this in 1976, does anyone know? Was there a developer interested in building the apartment building ever? #ghostunits If they had built them in '76 they might even have been rent controlled.

I want to find the 1976 Planning Commission Motion No. 7504, and see if there is a diagram of what those 32 units would have looked like.

Here's our googlegroup thread about it: https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/sfbarentersfed/7RHl2b99GgQ/fPYwcAZzWdAJ

come to my party next friday https://www.facebook.com/events/299302400181522

BEAT THE CLOCK!!! $3 wells before 11pm!!!

Whether you've been before or this is your first visit, you'll love our party. We've got a lighting system like no other in the world and audio thats tuned perfectly for our room. Other then that we always try to bring you a new lineup of great DJ's with amazing music to keep you grooving.

Our bartenders/staff are all about hospitality, providing the best cocktails and making sure you're taken care of all night with a smile.

Deep house/house/tech-house/techno

This week's lineup is as follows:

WAX JUNKIE - https://soundcloud.com/the-junkie/pitch-mix-of-the-month-vol-1

G-SCOTT

CHRISTOPHER CHARLES

As always: FREE $3 wells till 11pm 21+ 9pm-2am 43 6th street, Club OMG! @ Stevenson between Market and Mission

From the article:

"Activists are highly suspicious of the general manager, Phil Ginsburg who they believe wants to turn the parks department into an enterprise agency—a government institution that generates its own budget (like the airport) by charging for access and services instead of relying on tax dollars. "

Hi there, I was in a similar position when I first moved to SF. It's definitely tough moving to a brand new city when you don't already have friends living there, but SF is a great city and I'm confident you'll find your own set of friends soon!

I would recommend checking out meetup.com if you haven't already! They have a great selection of meetups for basically any hobby out there and I've made some great friends from some of the meetups I've regularly attended in the past. Best of luck!

According to the Darksky weather forecast, we're expecting to have light rain starting around 5:00 pm and continuing on and off until tomorrow.

Remember that weather forecasts are guesses - sometimes good guesses, but just guesses nonetheless.

The rent hike is outrageous. I saw this renter's airbnb ad though https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1962247, it seems like she has been actively renting out the place for a while now. Maybe the owner came to know about it and is pissed, hence the rent hike.

Yeah there is some amazing stuff here. Like the howard st one, written backwards except the R & S (although with all the symmetrical letters who knows which else).

Not in the UI, but you can do that through the developer console (how to open in Chrome/Firefox).

Here's what you need to put in:

var scope = angular.element(document.querySelector("[ng-controller='MainController']")).scope(); scope.forecast = scope.forecastPoop(100, 0); scope.$digest()

You can replace 100 and 0. The place for 100 is number of days before today, and the place for 0 is days to "forecast" (using polynomial regression).

The highlight of my visits to the Steinhart was always Butterball, an Amazonian manatee who was rescued from a Colombian fish market and brought to the Academy.

There’s a neat video on YouTube about the history of the Steinhart and also a book.

Not sure whether Emeryville has it but Oakland does. Here you are my dude

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oak-311/id1316091489?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seeclickfix.oak311.app

You'll be fine. The Metreon has a movie theater that is open late most nights, there is plenty of foot traffic in the area between the Metreon and BART.

While on the topic of the intersection of foot traffic and public safety, allow me to recommend Jane Jacobs' classic book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HWKSBDI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Clipper cards use NFC. With an app like farebot, you can read a card with an Android phone to check your balance and your tag history.

They probably would have been better off reporting this using BART Watch (Android/iOS) than putting it up on Snapchat.

>BTW someone needs to make an mobile app for this

I use it all the time.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sf311/id666635420?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.sfgov.sf311

For start-ups, one of the fist things they want to do is validate they have a working product for their target market in as lean a way as possible way...i.e. spending the least amount of money and time up front. Identifying that target market is more involved then looking at iOS vs. Android market share. The user demographic of each system is quite different...see here for example. Further, the way users use iOS vs. Andriod is different, with iOS having higher app usage...see here. Lastly, the iOS development environment is arguably better (or faster and easier) because the devices are limited and APIs more controlled.

I'm sure if they get any traction, one of the first things they will do is support andriod devices. But if you're committed to a lean start-up and you're not using some multi-platform dev tool like Appcelerator, iOS is still the way to go despite the market share shift.

This is the route you want to take. There is one incline after Octavia, but otherwise this route is the flattest and safest you can get.

May 5th, that's tomorrow, you can go speak at city council in favor of the Lake Merritt highrise.

5:30 pm, Oakland City Hall, it's the Urban Core development project.

Don't worry about planning what to say ahead of time - there is always a presentation before public comment. You will watch that. Then you will see some of the other commentors, and you will know what to say.

Email the googlegroup to see if anyone else is going - unfortunately that is the same night at the Balboa Reservoir meeting.

But really, what do you want to do? Do you want to walk around North Beach in SF in the evenings campaigning for Julie Christensen? That will also help. Do you want to do research? We have lots of research to do. Party Planning? Graphics?

Oh - go to the "Introduce yourself" thread on the googlegroup and say why you care about this issue: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sfbarentersfed That is actually the easiest, most helpful, short thing you can do.

Yes, Ford obvs has a marketing effort with FordGoBike, but it's no mere advertiser.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/09/15/the-real-reason-behind-fords-move-into-bike-sharin.aspx

"Here's the key slide from [former Ford Motor CEo] Hackett's presentation that ties the bike-sharing to the shuttle service."

Or Google this: driving characteristics fordgobike As one can see, this is a part of all users' agreements to rent a bicycle. Why would this be in a bike rental contract?

Ford is similar to Citibike's Citibank in NYC in some ways, but not all ways. Ford is ambitious.

I don't see anything wrong with what I wrote. Ford DOES feel threatened by Jump, obvs.

Trying someone by a tribunal and then letting them off the hook is definitely a form of forgiveness. If you disagree, that's fine. I feel no need to convince you of what the word 'forgiveness' means. You can look it up yourself.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forgive

Tech workers account for maybe 14% of the population in the area (12% as of 2013 and assuming every new resident since then works in tech, an additional 1.5%pa). So if the tech industry and all its workers vaporized instantaneously, we'd get at most something like 383000 * 0.14 = 53600 housing units returned to the market, which is significantly less than the 100000 unit threshold to make a real dent in housing prices. And a real dent in housing prices is a very far cry from Detroit-style desolation.