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by jsky_goog 6y ago
There was a good talk at Carnivore Con in 2019 here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH7JGM7K-Lc&list=PLluvR68gTT... ) about this. The very rough gist is that there is historical evidence of pre agrarian humans starving
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by jsky_goog 7y ago
The wording of "less than half the volume of construction materials" mined each year seems hand wavy as a justification that this is possible. If I'm reading the chart right that would suggest we'd need a roughly 25% inc
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by jsky_goog 9y ago
I think an example of "misplaced faith in evidence" would be along the lines of equating correlation with causation based on evidence.
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by jsky_goog 9y ago
This is very true, last census I saw which I think was a few years old said 65% of residents rented.
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by jsky_goog 9y ago
I understand the concern but as someone who grew up in Boulder, and now works at Google Boulder I feel like people are giving off this incorrect impression of Boulder. It's a small town (~120k people w/ students) but it was never
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by jsky_goog 9y ago
The new office has been open for 3 months and Google has had a presence in Boulder for a decade. Google is pretty far from "dictating...how they want want the neighborhood and city to be structured". The city council has promoted
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by jsky_goog 9y ago
I always get slightly sad when I hear the complaints against Google in Boulder as I honestly believe the effect it has had on housing prices has been overstated. For some context, I'm a Boulder native, I grew up here, went to preschool
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by jsky_goog 9y ago
This was briefly on the frontpage but now I can't find it listed on HN. Did this violate some kind of rules?