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No, he doesn't. Although I suspect here on HN there will be a segment - hopefully a small one - of people who agree with him. Gentrification is not always bad, but this guy's arguments are.

Breaking down some of them:

> You can't afford it? You can leave. I'm sorry, get a better job

That isn't how it works in the real world. People can't 'just leave'. If you seriously think moving to a more affordable city is an option for everyone you are sadly mistaken. I don't think I really need to go into why "just move" is very naive argument.

> "I'm sorry, get a better job."

Again, this isn't how life works. If it was so easy to 'get a better job' we'd all be out doing it.

> "This is a city for the right people who can afford it."

Who are "the right people"? Who gets to dictate who can and cannot live in a city? Many people being priced out of San Francisco have lived there for generations, far longer than people moving to work in tech. Why are the latter "the right people" but not the former?

I am not saying I totally agree with the protestors, either. Gentrification in general brings many positives and negatives. It's a tricky balance. There are good arguments to be made on either side - "if you don't like it, just move" is not one of them. "You're not the right people" is even worse.
Which point is that?
I do not understand why people are protesting that a bus is being used to replace 50 cars that would take up parking, cause additional congestion, and be far more polluting.
"Software is boring. Apps are cool."
Maybe, but it's shortsighted. Yes, currently the Google Employee is able to provide enough value to Google that they pay him a nice salary that allows him to live in relative comfort. Though, perhaps in 10 years, his job will be automated away by better tools, or AI. A good chunk of what programmers and even technical people do could possibly be automated at some point. At which point this employee might find himself in the same situation.

The real question is, as David Simon I believe asked in a post over the weekend, are we in it together, or not? If we're not and everyone is off to fend for themselves, then you better be okay with it when you're put in the weaker position.
I'd like to try one, but there appears to be basically no such thing as a bluetooth-enabled one-hand chord keyboard that you are intended to hold in your hand (as opposed to having on a table), and that's the use case I'm interested it... an input device for my augmented reality glasses while I'm walking around. On that note, if they're ever going to make a... well... can't really make a comeback if you never made an appearance at all... an appearance, that's probably the scenario that will drive them. Voice may cover casual usage, but when you really need to go to town you're going to need something more, and no current input device can meet that need.
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Hey, yet again, citizens arguing at each other instead of focusing their anger towards the government.

If the bay area had decent public transportation, these buses wouldn't exist.

You know how google employees from Westchester get to work in Chelsea? They take the train + subway. Because it isn't completely terrible.

That being said, this guy is obviously doing himself or google no favors and looks like a douche.
I'm actually happy with my Verizon FIOS in Western New York. That said, I am in a grandfathered special plan where I get 25Mb up & down for $45 a month. I have no idea how long that will last.

I haven't had many problems with their service except that once or twice a year the DHCP lease on their server gets stuck where it won't give me an IP and I need to call them to break the DHCP lease so I can get an IP address. The last couple times I broke the DHCP lease via their Twitter support ( https://twitter.com/VerizonSupport ) and it was faster than calling on the phone. I also use OpenDNS so I don't know if their DNS servers are bad.

I use OpenDNS because I used to have Time Warner Cable and their DNS servers went down several times per week.
I just got my Android phone and I agree. I shall never again pay someone for the "privilege" of programming my own device.
Another important aspect about retaining good employees is to help them through their failures. The longer an employee stays at a company, the more likely it is that they will screw up. No one has a 100% track record. Good management teams recognize this, and should have plans to guide faltering employees back on the right track.
See also, "Turing's Curse", from OSCON 2013: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/detail/29917
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I don't agree with the tactics used by these protesters at all. I don't see how this creates anything but animosity.

Obviously the explosion of tech and the intrusion of the industry in to the city is causing a LOT of problems. Obviously there are a lot of people being displaced who feel they have no say.

It seems like the tech industry is just shouting from a bullhorn. "LEARN TO CODE IF YOU'RE POOR" seems to be the message. "WE'RE THE SOLUTION PEOPLE" seems to be the message. "TECH AND CAPITAL WILL SOLVE EVERYTHING" seems to be the message.

And yeah, part of the fucking problem is that everyone in tech is a "solutions" person. People have their spiritual energies, their moralistic energies, just blindly and naively stowed away behind some screen, literally and figuratively. It is ethically bankrupt and it is total fucking bullshit. It is basically how a teenager envisions the world. So yeah, I'm just as fucking pissed off at all of these newcomers.

I think Radiohead summed it up pretty well:

Karma Police, arrest this man, he talks in maths, he buzzes like a fridge he's like a detuned radio. Karma Police, arrest this girl, her hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill,
and we have crashed her party.

Or how about The Flying Burrito Brothers:

This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house. It seems like this whole town's insane. On the thirty-first floor your gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rain.

So maybe you're getting my drift here... kidnapping a bus full of people, no matter how strongly you feel about things, is NOT the fucking answer. It is just more SHOUTING. All we end up with is people SHOUTING and SHOUTING.

Well, fuck all you people, on both sides. We should be SINGING to each other and with each other. And yeah, tech industry, you need to shut the fuck up. But you know what? I'm just gonna SING.
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OK, tell us who benefits most. I have no idea what you're insinuating, so why not come out and say it?
The cars wouldn't block the lane of a major artery for long periods of time, as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6876464
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I think this practice is a short-term solution. Every new company that starts accepting Bitcoin does help spread adoption. Eventually, it will mature and the price will stabilize, but this part is going to have to happen before we can get there.
I for one hope this gets blown out of proportion. And Google wises up and realizes if they fund public transit they can win public opinion and make the city they live in better for everyone.
The guy was an ass, but I don't see how protesting the Google shuttle is going to help either.

Perhaps if San Francisco allowed more housing development it wouldn't be so expensive. If you live in a desirable place it's going to be more expensive, especially if supply is restricted.
Patience. Volatility of Bitcoin is not a big problem, because it will decrease over time: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/09...
Typo in the submission: "On the [other] hand, Stripe"

Also: "$250k a year for an engineer right [out] of college"
I honestly haven't thought it through too far myself--just curious, is all.

EDIT: That's the problem with conspiracies...it's conspiracies all the way down, and then beneath that happenstance.
The problem is that BART doesn't go down to Mountain View. You have to do a transfer at Milbrae to Caltrain and your fares end up adding up to $20+ for a round trip which is more than the cost of gas for the same trip. When I lived in the Inner Sunset, trying to take public transportation to my job in Mountain View (not at the G) meant hopping on an N-Judah for 30 minutes to get to the Caltrain station then sitting on a Caltrain for 45 minutes to 69 minutes (depending on train) which adds to 1 1/2 hours each way not to mention having to deal with the Muni and having a Caltrain person wake you up to "see your ticket".
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> satisfy the "families must live together"

If you bother to actually ask the child here she will tell you she'd rather stay with her parents and family then have better material circumstances with others.
Isn't Google missing an opportunity here?

Provide some funding for regular public transit, fit them with WIFI, slurp the data and invade privacy, serve some ads, etc.

That way they get to continue running their buses. They pay an informal tax or money towards advertising, which they can possibly write off as some community benefit thing. They improve the air quality, which improves employee health. And it's a nice thing to do, and all people need to keep a bank of the nice things they do that they can point to when they're caught behaving like dicks.
Are you sure about that?

I wonder how much the shuttle system costs Google. It's hard to say for certain, but its probably in the millions of dollars a year.

Now, let's contrast that to the BART extension to SFO, which was completed in 2002 and cost $1.5 billion for 8.7 miles of new track. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Bay_Area_Rapid_T...)

Extending BART service to San Jose (which is hardly a politically trivial affair) would cost a few bucks to say the least. There is also the east-side extension which would compete with a west-side extension:

http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx

Unfortunately companies can't really just give money to the government to do their pet projects. It's been tried before and it kind of ends up poorly.
The cynic in me half-expects that the guy was a plant and not an actual Google employee. It’s hard to imagine that someone could be that tone-deaf and blissfully unaware that they’re being caught on camera.

Unfortunately, some people really are that unaware.

UPDATE: apparently my cynical side called it correctly.
This is a complicated issue. I think he has a point but he could probably have said it more tactfully.

Many people have a lot of attachment to their cities and neighborhoods. They do not just want to move to another city (and that may not be an option at all if there job is fixed to the city being gentrified). They probably have friends and family that are probably also located in San Francisco. They see a new power rising and threatening there way of life and it frustrates them. People don't like change.

Boston has a similar problem. Our science and tech industry is almost as bright as San Francisco's and the workforce has to live somewhere. Traditionally working-class neighborhoods like Southie and Dorchester are being changed and it's forcing rents up and driving long term residents out of the city.

Unfortunately, both long-term Boston and San Francisco residents have done this to themselves through NIMBYism. If these cities had been encouraging developers to build new housing stock at the correct rate over the last 30 years or so rents would have stayed relatively stable. Instead they're skyrocketing up.

Everything is going fine for this Google employee right now, but someday he may be facing the same problem. I only hope his group of peers learns the lessons that the previous generations failed to about continuing to build high-density desirable housing.
> This has happened time after time and shows no sign of stopping because of fundamental problems

Maybe in the US but it's not a fundamental of governments generally.
As others have noted, this is just the tip of the iceberg. It is an ancient and endemic practice.
Again, by words, "nobody" wants that. By actions... there's plenty of governing official that clearly do. Many of them have a "liberal" label on them. Many of them have other labels on them, too. Labels aren't as interesting as actions, though; distracting people with labels is one of their prime tools.
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Today on the birthday of legendary female computer scientist Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler and the term "debugging", among other achievements - I ask the Hacker News community, why is the computer science overwhelmingly male and becoming increasingly so as time goes on? The hacker community seems to be absolutely comfortable in this state, and to me that's disturbing. Diversity creates innovation - and for an industry that prides itself as innovators, the silicon-valley idea pool seems like a dangerous closed-loop.

This has been an issue for a while, so I'm posting this somewhat dated yet historically relevant article from 1999 which brings up this very issue, an issue which was never answered.

You can probably skip the first two sections defining and explaining hackers and hacking.
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I can't speak for all proponents, obviously. From my point of view, the proof-of-work from mining is a critical part of the value of the currency, since it enforces the scarcity, and the only reason any fungible good has value is because it is scarce.

This is not unique to Bitcoin -- one of the primary reasons that USD has value is because the proof-of-work involved there; specifically, the ability to create an item that is not distinguishable from any other note of USD. If this were easy, then the dollar would be worthless, even though the actual task of "creating dollar bills" has no societal benefit other than securing the currency. (Not that you claimed it did; that is just a common objection that I am using as a strawman)
There's an interesting organization called Year Up[1] - I have volunteered there and it was a great experience. I think a lot of people on HN could have a significant impact on students there.

http://yearup.org/
Having dual modes of transportation does drive people nuts. In NYC it's the black SUV motorcades that sometimes double park on streets.

I would love to see the solution being Google using Big Data to improve SF traffic.
Very nice and everything, but if I went into a store and the payment method was via a device attached to an iPhone then alarm bells ringing "card skimmer" would be going off in my head and I'd walk out the door.
More like not flavor of the past few decades :P

Anyway, having coded in COBOL for a bank, in my opinion it's an awful, wordy, clumsy language. It fully deserves its bad reputation.

Grace Hopper was an interesting person regardless.
Or maybe he was having a shitty morning and really needed to get to work, and that made his morning even worse and he lost his temper.

Humans are, well, human.
And the point is that he's a huge entitled asshole.
You are correct. Political and bureaucratic types with no experience in building big systems called the shots until the 3rd week or so of October, and were making major change orders in August, and other changes in the week before launch. And no single manager had it as his personal, full time responsibility (although in fairness, it just occurred to me that anyone savvy in HHS would have avoided such a position like the plague). The infrastructure was grossly under-provisioned, and when the general contractor/integrator including integration testing, HHS's CMS (now "fired" and replaced by the private QSSI) finally did integration testing in the couple of weeks before launch it failed hard. But somehow, in best waterfall in practice tradition, that had no effect on the decision to launch.

As I like to say, no Google/Facebook/Lisper dream team could have possibly succeeded given the top down constraints. I can't even see a lot of the contractors putting in their best effort when they had to throw away so much work so often....
Until Google employee's job is downsized, and he's unable to find work at $startup_flavor_of_the_year. I'm sure he can then pack up and move to a cheaper city.

He might as well have said, "Let them eat cake."
Right out of college I worked swing shift at a corn refinery doing dry starch QA for $12/hr. Later, I went to grad school and had to get a part-time retail job at $9.50/hr to supplement my TA stipend in order to make rent. Today...let's just say I make a lot more than $12/hr.

There are many jobs and not all of them pay the same, but not all of them are "career path" jobs either. Some simply require long hours, hard work, and putting up with horrible work conditions (and, sometimes, horrible people). Sadly, I think it is taken as given that some people will spend their entire lives working crappy jobs for low pay, while others get to enjoy high-paying careers. Underneath is a sentiment that some people "have it" -- whether "it" is talent, intelligence, or something else -- and others don't. But I think that's wrong...

If everyone left college to become a computer programmer, nobody would be left to cook the burgers, so obviously this is not a solution. But not everyone has to immediately leave college and dive straight in to the career they will someday retire from. I think a simple solution to much of what is wrong with the US economy (and the direction it's heading in) is to begin to expect newly minted graduates, or even high school seniors on a "gap year", to work the crappy jobs.

Because you know what? They may be crappy, but there are things you can learn doing those kinds of jobs that they don't teach in school, and that you will probably never learn if you jump straight from school to the cubicle. Yes, I realize I'm posting this on Hacker News, "Home of the Early-20-Something Entrepreneur"™. No, I didn't build a photo/ride/house sharing app in my 20s. I trudged through ankle-deep drifts of corn starch and waist-deep drifts of snow at 3 AM. But now that I'm nearing my mid-30s, I feel like if and when I do decide to start a company, I'll be able to approach the task with a maturity and appreciation for hard, and smart, work that I didn't have when I was 21.

So why post this diatribe here? Because without knowing a thing about the gentleman in the video, I can almost guarantee he never worked a day of retail, food-service, or manufacturing in his life...
Well, the protestors are asking for Google to pay the city for using city infrastructure (bus stops) - that money in turn could/would go to affordable housing. In theory.
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Objectively speak Bloomberg was pretty decent for the poor, the outer boroughs, the artists, and many other groups that he's accused of screwing over. The reason for all the vitriol is that he wasn't suitably enthusiastic -- he didn't pay all the required lip service, he isn't perceived to feel people's pain.

Just to take one small example, De Blasio talks about the two New Yorks, but meanwhile he took a lot of money from the large taxi medallion owning companies, and is threatening to close down the new apple green outer boroughs taxis. That's a program that unequivocally targets the "other NY".
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Also, the MUNI buses are authorized to stop in the bus stops. I'm not opposed to private buses, but they should have to pay for the right to use public streets to transact their business, just as businesses operating in Central Park have to pay for their locations.
Could the anger be that companies aren't paying as much taxes as they used to, and hence there's not enough money for BART to be fixed? I'm not saying this is or isn't the case, just trying to get inside the mind of the protesters.
Share prices DO NOT denote actual value

There is an entire field of academic study dedicated to answering this question. While you may not be wrong, this is far from a settled issue. The confidence with which you make the assertion (in all caps even) doesn't really jive with the actual science being done here.

If you're interested, start with the efficient market theorem and work your way forward.
Until more places give cash/bitcoin discounts, the overall effective cost to me as an individual is the same and even less with credit card once rewards are accounted for. I would like to think that less responsible card users are financing my rewards with their interest paid while those of us who use credit cards just like cash (pay in full every month) are gaming the system a bit.
Doesn't there need to be a software input / output layer anyway? How can you secure this?

(genuine interest, not an attack)
Several people have mentioned this, but I don't think the scale works out. SMFTA's expenditures alone are nearly a billion dollars a year (and then there's BART and Caltrain).

Some of these companies (Google, Apple, etc) have that sort of capital, but short of going into the public transportation business, the jump from carting around a few (tens of?) thousands of people to making a significant impact on that number is not just "provide some funding".
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isn't the answer obvious. Google can call a bus company and have a solution in place in a day, or contribute billions to a goverment project that will take 15 years to finish (just look at BART, SJ light rail etc etc)
If there's a law that says that private vehicles can't Stop, Stand, Park, etc. in the right lane, then it should be enforced.

If you think there should be a law, then that's also a fine discussion.

But from my standpoint, people are complaining about the lack of enforcement of a law that doesn't exist.
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. I'm not pedantic enough about the "you and me" stuff, or even fully correct in my own punctuation and I'm a native English speaker. But knowing the difference between "there, their and they're" is very important for example.
Applying his tactics.. maybe he should live closer to work then. If he can't deal with the realities of living in a city, he should go move to Mountain View and take a peaceful ten minute walk into the Google campus instead. No protesters down there and he won't waste an hour a day riding a bus.
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Shuttles exist because their offices are not near any existing or feasible transit.

Urban areas have a lot more pre-existing transit, and transit that can be used by more people than just work at one company, than the Shoreline Amphitheater area of Mountain View.

If the company has it's offices in downtown, they wouldn't need to run shuttles.

AFAIK, there is no intra-city shuttle for their employees who work in their SF office, only Mountain View.
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