They spend it on artificially low prices, often charging the riders even less than they pay the drivers in markets where they are new and growing. The idea is that they will get a sticky network of riders and drivers and then raise prices later. It certainly worked on me.
The thing about Microsoft’s stuff is that it slowly but inexorably gets better over time. Like a watched pot, if you are waiting for a feature it will never arrive but if you walk away and come back a few years later it will be significantly better.
Another thing in OneNote’s favor is you know it’s going to stick around because they sell it to businesses. With Evernote it seems like they could run out of money and with Google they could just get bored.
Lot of equations here. A non mathematical way to understand it is to look at societies where men can marry multiple wives. The rich and high status men have several leaving many men with none. These men with zero chance of reproduction become big social liabilities as they are easier to draw towards high risk activities like terrorism.
Who is “we”? Public schools at the local level in the US are very diverse. If you have the money you can find public school systems as good as Ivy League colleges, with a self-selected peer population of students with highly engaged parents.
Lowering educational standards to meet the needs of the 20th percentile student is preternaturally stupid and is why we’ll be moving out of San Francisco before our kids are in school.
Yes, because without appropriate guidance and modeling, people create Hobbesian dystopias. Countries like Finland and even the US are anomalies which need costly, active, intervention to maintain.
It’s even more wrong to portray prisoners as a bunch of hapless victims. I’ve had to interact with prisoners in a previous career and less than 10% are people I would allow in my home.
Obviously, not all low income people are alike. But in nearby San Francisco, they built a low income housing complex near my house, and now there are people outside the entryway smoking marijuana in public at least 1 in 10 times I pass it. I push my kid’s stroller through the smoke.
Call me ignorant, call me racist, call me heartless, call me whatever you want. If another one of these housing complexes is proposed here, I will do my part to stop it. These individuals are currently smoking marijuana on the street somewhere, and that’s where they can continue to do it.
Obviously, not all low income people are alike. But in nearby San Francisco, they built a low income housing complex near my house, and now there are people outside the entryway smoking marijuana in public at least 1 in 10 times I pass it. I push my kid’s stroller through the smoke.
I call bullshit. People smoke pot out in the open in San Francisco all the fucking time, in nearly every neighborhood, and have done so for many, many years regardless of their income level. For example: the Financial District at lunch. OTOH if "low income housing complex" is a euphemism for Eatsa then I'm with you.
They didn’t in my neighborhood before the introduction of this complex. I assume that the neighborhoods you’re referencing may be where they moved in from, and it’s there that I prefer they stay.
Smoking it has been de facto legalized in San Francisco for a while now (presumably only in areas where smoking/vaping are allowed). I'd have to go look to be certain, but I believe that marijuana citations were formally classed as the lowest priority for SFPD a few years back.
I’m not asking SFPD to ticket these guys, I’m just asking policymakers to not import them into my neighborhood of luxury condos and families with small children.
Maybe mine did as well. Yes, there are plenty of places where smoking pot transcends class. 6th and Market, Geary and Leavenworth, 3rd and Brannan even. Keep the low income housing and homeless shelters there. Don’t fuck up new neighborhoods.
Despite your clutching your pearls, smoking pot in your neighborhood isn't new. Poor people don't fuck up "new neighborhoods". If you don't want to see poverty, San Francisco is definitely the wrong choice for you.
Call me ignorant, call me racist, call me heartless, call me whatever you want.
That you brought race into the discussion is pretty clear evidence that your concerns are not pot smoke.
I like how you are the expert on when pot smoking on the street in my neighborhood became a thing, despite not knowing what neighborhood I’m even talking about.
Given that I was born in San Francisco and have lived in the Bay Area my whole life I feel pretty qualified to comment. But your whole "call me a racist if you must" thing is very telling. There's also simply not that much low income housing in SF proper.
