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…
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%…
I think an example of "misplaced faith in evidence" would be along the lines of equating correlation with causation based on evidence.
This is very true, last census I saw which I think was a few years old said 65% of residents rented.
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…
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…
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,…
This was briefly on the frontpage but now I can't find it listed on HN. Did this violate some kind of rules?
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…
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%…
I think an example of "misplaced faith in evidence" would be along the lines of equating correlation with causation based on evidence.
This is very true, last census I saw which I think was a few years old said 65% of residents rented.
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…
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…
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,…
This was briefly on the frontpage but now I can't find it listed on HN. Did this violate some kind of rules?