Uptown Almanac

i wonder what that guy's (at least it was a guy behind the wheel when i saw the car on the road once, and the car had the police style color scheme and that text from rear bumper repeated on the sides too) experience has been https://uptownalmanac.com/2010/01/meanwhile-mountain-view

SF Public Transit has always suffered from severe urban blight. It is down right, condemnable, in some respects [1]. I am certainly not selectively harpooning the SF transit system. I do not have extensive familiarity with other places to judge whether things are just as bad, in other metropolitan areas, across the nation. Throwing good money after bad, while stubbornly refusing to tackle key problems like the dumping of their homeless populations by other states, has contributed to the current state of affairs. SF suffers from what is called a progress trap…

The original post was unsurprisingly deleted. Here's a discussion + copy of the original. http://uptownalmanac.com/2013/08/tech-founder-complains-about-shithole… And here's a little more context for the backlash that caused the apology: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PeterShihFacts&src=hash

Massive rent increases, the bad aspects of gentrification. Rent in some places is doubling in a year. http://uptownalmanac.com/2012/05/rental-prices-wwaayy-every-neighborho…

I'd say I'm living from paycheck to paycheck.... "Except I'm not getting a paycheck!" http://uptownalmanac.com/2012/10/nerds-gone-wild-day-san-francisco-die…

This explains the "Marina bro" better than I could: http://uptownalmanac.com/2010/07/wont-you-be-my-bromate

Keep in mind I'm not speaking of everyone when I say this, but I do have a subset of the population in mind. Regarding the detatched engineer, here is just one example, although there are many: http://uptownalmanac.com/2013/08/tech-founder-complains-about-shithole… In terms of the empathy and lack of spirit to the community, a cursory search through HN archives for the word "deserve" can summon a mountain of comments by people demanding to know why someone who grew up in neighborhoods like the Mission and has been priced out deserves to live there. There are also examples like Google executive Jack Halprin kicking people out of their homes: http://valleywag.gawker.com/protestors-target-home-of-google-exec-accu… Correct me if I'm wrong, but that last link seems like something Robert Moses would have done (and did, many times). Regarding the Gordon Gecko comment: there seems to be a growing sentiment that greed is good, and making profit at the expense of all else is paramount. I'm speaking of the attitude that lead Mark Pincus to threaten his employees with firing at the expense of their own stock options: http://www.cnet.com/news/zynga-to-employees-give-back-our-stock-or-you… Or the fact that Zuckerberg seems to think giving a controlled version of what the rest of the world calls the Internet to developing countries, maintaining control of what they see, while parading around as if he's the savior of…