The Bold Italic

I've always said ploh-ver (rhymes with clover), but that comes not from any birding experience, but from drinking Andytown's Snowy Plovers[1]. I believe the staff there has always said ploh-ver as well, but it's been a while and I could be mistaken. Seems like jury is out amongst birders[2] [1] https://thebolditalic.com/the-snowy-plover-is-the-tastiest-drink-in-sa… [2] https://www.10000birds.com/ploverpronunciationpoll.htm

Academy of Art is a real estate company with an education problem. They have countless illegally modified buildings around SF (https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Academy-of-Art-agre… with a ton of diesel buses spewing pollution to cart around wanna-be artists from all over the world. Note that these students didn't have to show any portfolio to get in, they just needed to come up with the $$$$$ somehow. The owners have a showroom for their classic car collection which isn't generally accessible to even the transportation design students (https://thebolditalic.com/just-how-much-is-academy-of-art-s-vintage-ca…

A few non-paywalled articles on the same topic: https://www.businessinsider.com/couple-buys-boat-to-avoid-san-francisc… https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/As-more-anchor-outs-live-o… https://thebolditalic.com/what-its-like-living-on-a-sailboat-in-the-sa…

It's worth reading this article: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/3758-why-is-there-so-much-human-… Homeless people were using the BART escalators as restrooms at night... causing them to break down. The solution? Multi-million dollar covers to stop people getting down there at night – not a considerably smaller sum for public restrooms. This speaks to the psychology. There is still a population in SF that believes homelessness is a choice. And that facilities encourage homelessness. There is another segment that believes SF already shoulders a disproportionate amount of dealing homelessness. There are a lot of people that just find them annoying. I'm always surprised how many locals don't believe Civic or Tenderloin is ever going to change. Why? Zoning, regulations – but mostly because it's always been that way. So, yeah. I don't quite understand it either.

Here is a fun little guide to SF that is for the most part accurate: http://www.thebolditalic.com/drewhoolhorst/stories/1958-moving-to-san-… Here is part 2: http://www.thebolditalic.com/drewhoolhorst/stories/2138-moving-to-san-… Best of luck with the move! I'm @danielpearson on twitter if you need anything else!

> Or do you have examples of academic DEI offices trying to convince the world that "all white are racist". Not that explicitly, of course, but let's go to https://diversity.berkeley.edu/rwle-books and click on "Anti-racism resources". We get to a google doc with a bunch of links, mostly broken or paywalled (so don't blame me for cherry picking). Let's look at the first "Articles to read" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-cont… From that document I learn that there is a "racial contract" in America "rendered in invisible ink", which everybody tacitly agrees with (or at least all whites). "The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal; the racial contract limits this to white men with property. The law says murder is illegal; the racial contract says it’s fine for white people to chase and murder black people if they have decided that those black people scare them. “The terms of the Racial Contract,” Mills wrote, “mean that nonwhite subpersonhood is enshrined simultaneously with white personhood.”" But don't worry, "the racial contract is not partisan". Still, we can always blame Trump: "“We can’t keep our country closed down for years,” Trump said Wednesday. But that was no one’s plan. The plan was to buy time to take the necessary steps to open the country safely. But the Trump administration did not do that, because it did not consider the lives of the people dying worth the effort or money…

SFO seems costlier: https://thebolditalic.com/parody-photos-of-the-sf-rental-market-are-da…

It wasn't just you. At least around 2013 it was a whole thing dubbed "the San Francisco yes": https://thebolditalic.com/what-s-up-with-the-san-francisco-yes-the-bol…

The only ones I have spent a lot of time looking at are in Seattle and at least they used to all be diesel and could hookup to the lines or lower them to run off the lines. For pure electric I assume they must tow them away but I don't know enough about the failure modes. This is a good chance to share a link to the guy with a Prius modified to run on the bus power in San Francisco: https://thebolditalic.com/hacked-prius-running-on-muni-power-lines-the…

Cisco Systems https://thebolditalic.com/don-t-call-it-frisco-the-history-of-san-fran…

Tangential art, in which one gentleman modified a Toyota to run off of municipal transit power lines in San Francisco, United States: https://thebolditalic.com/hacked-prius-running-on-muni-power-lines-the…

It was a Prius. https://thebolditalic.com/hacked-prius-running-on-muni-power-lines-the…

You're describing SROs and they've been disappearing from cities like SF, despite being a decent option (on paper) for transition housing. Here's a primer: https://thebolditalic.com/life-inside-sf-s-vanishing-single-resident-o…

I don't know whether or not it is legal, but I have seen an electric car with tram whiskers before. I think I saw it in San Francisco, and I think it was a Prius. Some quick Googling fails to turn it up, though. EDIT Found a link: https://thebolditalic.com/hacked-prius-running-on-muni-power-lines-the…

There was a time you could do time or lose a job and come back to a SRO unit. Not like anyone warned there was a problem: https://thebolditalic.com/life-inside-sf-s-vanishing-single-resident-o…

https://thebolditalic.com/why-sf-restaurants-are-suffocating-795392211… NYT also reported on the topic.

Things like SRO's are vanishing in the city and they were at one point a way for lower income people to live off the streets: https://thebolditalic.com/life-inside-sf-s-vanishing-single-resident-o…

What Steve Blank has told is essentially a golden past... This[1] is the present...Life in SV! [1] https://thebolditalic.com/this-is-your-life-in-silicon-valley-93309123…

This is all Herb Caen's fault! [1] I vote for bringing back Frisco. It's a lot easier to say and write. [1] https://thebolditalic.com/amp/p/5c14348d49c

somebody sent me a post about the lumbersexual thing ( I think it was this one : http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/6235-the-lumbersexual-is-here-to… ). Sort of bugs me that some basic clothing that's good for outdoors and daily life in the northwest gets co-opted into a fashion thing

Simpsons already did it! Or rather, the Bold Italic did: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/5607-a-four-year-old-reviews-the…

It's cool to see startups working in cultural areas... http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/5512-can-sfs-highbrow-arts-survi…

>>Also this comment is pretty harsh, and you clearly are not spending time in the right parts of San Francisco if you think its all littered with garbage and smells like piss. Last time I checked, homeless were pissing and defecating on sidewalks in the heart of SF's financial district, as well as many others. http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/3758-why-is-there-so-much-human-… (I don't say that to diss homeless people. Often times they have no choice because shops and businesses don't allow public usage of their restrooms.)

This reminds me of he guy who hacked to prius to run on the Muni lines in SF -- http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4717-hacked-prius-running-on-mun…

Solnit plays loose with the facts in order to spread her divisive message. Not sure why. Here's one response: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/4449-nostalgia-and-nimbyism-rebe…

Public infrastructure? Perhaps they should start with toilets for the street urchins. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/us/06bcseats.html?pagewanted=all&… http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/3758-why-is-there-so-much-human-…

Maybe this is why he thinks they're cartoonish? http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/1958-moving-to-san-francisco http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/2138-moving-to-san-francisco-par…

There are lots of reasons why a site might get banned, but the main ones are when they are spam or consistently a source of off-topic or low-quality articles. In this case it's hard to say because 2013 was a long time ago. It might have been because someone was oversubmitting or trying to promote the site on HN. That's another reason why we might ban a site. This site looks like an online magazine focused on the SF Bay Area. When I look at the submissions I see a penchant for sensational titles and a lot of articles that aren't on topic for HN, but also a few articles that would make good HN submissions, except possibly for the titles. Two examples of good ones: https://thebolditalic.com/the-remarkable-story-of-the-golden-gate-brid… https://thebolditalic.com/how-tech-is-deciding-who-gets-to-go-camping-… (good article, bad title) For that category of site, we generally don't ban the domain, but rather downweight it to countervail the sensationalism. I'll switch this one over.

It's certainly not a winner take all market, the world is a big place and it would be ridiculously capital-intensive to deploy everywhere before anyone else has a shot. Though we could very well end up seeing regional monopolies where a single fleet provider dominates in a given city. Uber is working hard to develop autonomous vehicles, but I don't think they need to worry about getting usurped by a competitors robotaxis near term. Uber's biggest future markets are in the developing world, particularly fast growing metropolises where transit infrastructure can't grow to meet demand. In places like Lagos, Dhaka, Delhi, Jakarta or Karachi it will be a long time before robotaxis can handle that level of chaos, or compete with low-cost human labour in those markets. Overwhelmed and cash strapped governments in these places are more than happy to let a private operator such as Uber handle transit. (interesting article on that: https://thebolditalic.com/ubers-goal-is-not-to-operate-alongside-publi… Regarding OEM's, well, some are doing better than others. GM subsidiary Cruise Automation has some real inertia. While Waymo is first to hit this milestone, I'm betting Cruise will be the first to deploy 100k robotaxis. Waymo doesn't make cars, and doesn't have any sort of manufacturing partnership on lock-down. With these FCA Pacifica's Waymo basically just bought them and retrofitted the autonomous hardware themselves. It's not clear if the…

> and does not happen any more frequently to women than to men You might as well be stating the world isn't round, or the sky isn't blue, or any other plainly obvious fact that has been proven countless times. Of course, you'll say sexism in the industry really doesn't exist, and ignore the thousands of women detailing their experiences[1] on the subject, so this isn't really for you. This is for the random reader who might not be as pigheaded and oblivious. > When people constantly make a huge fuss about imaginary misogyny Did "imaginary" suddenly change meanings? Because either it did, or your head is so far in the sand, you've been ignoring some of the most[2] recent[3] incidents.[4] If you haven't been paying attention to the programming and tech community, you really shouldn't be speaking about it, you know? It just makes you look like a jackass, and you wouldn't want that, right? [1]: http://www.chicagonow.com/wild-side-chicago/2013/09/sexism-in-it-a-sho… [2]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/11/221052414/sexism… [3]: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/09/10/pax_dickinson_business… [4]: http://www.thebolditalic.com/articles/3895-ignant-halloween-party-at-h…