[ENOTTY]

If TFA is meant to say San Franciscans should be grateful for the gentrification of the city, then it's pretty insulting, and frankly, emblematic of the entitlement and lack of awareness in the tech community. If anything, TFA proves that life is getting better for a small segment of the population of San Francisco.

1. Chart does not discuss why unemployment is down. Is it down because there's a ton of tech workers moving in while the unemployed poor are priced out of the city?

2. Same argument for #1

3. Data comes from self-reports on Glassdoor, which polls mostly from white-collar workers. So this chart should really say "Job Satisfaction Scores by City for White Collar Workers."

4. This chart measures against the national income distribution, which is a comparison that makes no sense, given San Francisco's insane cost of living.

5. Yes, San Franciscans should root for sports teams that are given money from municipalities to rich owners to build stadiums. This is money that could have been used to fund initiatives that actually improve the lives of low income families. The chart talks about playoff games that most people can't afford to attend, or if it's on cable, most people can't watch.

10. You can fly to a vacation destination. If you can afford it.

TFA reminds me of the saying, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."

[lbrandy]

Blaming tech workers for misguided public policy is the kind of awful thinking that drives votes that leads to bad public policy.

I'd like to see HN do better.

[erwanl]

Regarding #2, I've heard an interesting statistic recently.

The blue workers average salary went up 5% in one year in France. The reason? Recent waves of layoff impacted lower salaries more than the others. So the average went up, but the lucky ones who kept their job didn't see an increase on their paycheck.

[TechNewb]

Regardless of social economic status, what the article points out are still many valid reasons to be thankful.

[powera]

Is there any statistic showing "people are doing well" that you wouldn't dismiss as a sign of "gentrification"?

[pbreit]

What's TFA?

[benologist]

Acronym for "The Fucking Article" although in this case the 'a' is an advertisement.

[steveklabnik]

For extra context, this was (originally, I think) used on /. because people would comment without reading the articles. The 'fucking' is used to communicate annoyance that it wasn't read in the first place.

An example, for this article:

OP: "Yeah, there's a lot to be thankful for, but I get delayed out of SFO because of fog almost every flight."

Reply: "TFA actually has a chart that shows that flight delays due to weather are not a problem, at least compared to other cities."

[benologist]

Urban Dictionary agrees with /. as the source but derived from RTFM -> RTFA -> TFA which makes sense:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA