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Original Source: u/associationcortex

Source: Brandon Yoshizawa

SF's 46.9 sq miles had a population density of 18.6K residents/sq. mi. In 2020 for reference, compared to central LA's 19.1K residents/sq mi over 43.5 sq miles. And even the core area of the San Fernando Valley, popularly known for being sprawling suburbia, suprisingly has a similar population density as Boston, and higher densities than DC, Chicago, or Philadelphia.

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https://maps.app.goo.gl/24Q6U5DvPv132DJ18?g\_st=ac

This shuttle loop service serving SpaceX's Hawthorne factory complex runs every 10 minutes, 20.5 hours a day! Suprisingly there is no stop at the C Line Crenshaw Station

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According to Bass' own internal poll, she leads Raman by just 37-33 among decideds, with a 3 point margin of error. Around 30% of voters are undecided.

https://planning.lacity.gov/development-services/eir/mirabel-transit-priority-project-1

Final EIR just got released for 42 story, 530 ft skyscraper near Wilshire/La Brea D Line station. Caltrans requested the developers to reduce parking (currently planned for 309 parking spots); developers said they might potentially consider it, but no guarantees. Project will bring 348 new housing units.

Rendering seems extraordinarily ambitious, but even more mindboggling is Musk's claim of 1TW of new capacity, magnitudes more than what currently exists. The idea that hes going to surpass all of TSMC's existing 2nm capacity, with all the hundreds of billions invested and decades of experience TSMC has, seems like a huge reach, to put it mildly. And the idea that Musk beleives packaging, logic, and memory can and should be centralized all under one roof, there must be a reason the industry has not gone in this direction up to this point.

I know Musk has a track record of not delivering on alot of promises (FSD, Man on Mars by 2020, etc), but at the same time this is the same man whos company set out to do what was then considered impossible, low cost reusable rockets. And he certainly has the capital to do it, apparently SpaceX and Tesla have commited $16 billion for the first phase of investment

If you were to divide California into 4 roughly equal strips of area, a hefty majority of its 39 million residents live in the southernmost strip containing the LA+San Diego metro areas, with nearly half of the state (~47%) living in the Greater LA metro area alone. If it were its own state, Southern California, with primarily just LA and San Diego metro areas, would compete with Florida for title of 2nd most populous US state.

The SF Bay Area, Sacramento, Monterrey, Fresno, and most of the Central Valley and put together are short of SoCal by over 9 million residents, but on its own this area would compete with Illinois for title of 6th largest state.

The strip sandwiched between Southern California and the Bay Area, containing Bakersfield plus other farming towns in the Southern Central Valley and most of the towns of the Central Coast, has about more people than Utah or Connecticut.

Suprisingly, despite how empty it can feel, there are still over a million people still live in the strip of CA north of Sacramento, containing about as much people as Hawaii and New Hampshire, albeit of a larger area.

Ultimately, one way to better understand the scale and density of California, is to conceptualize it as Florida + Illinois + Utah + Hawaii, all packaged in one single state under one single state government