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Argonaut998last Monday at 8:01 PM1 replyview on HN

The entire human population can fit within Los Angelas. It’s not a good metric in general. Pressure on public services, resources and housing is far more useful


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jason-johnsonlast Tuesday at 6:31 AM

The entire human population could stand there: each person would have roughly 1.5 to 5.4 square feet of space—less than the size of a single chair. If you actually did get all of humanity in LA it would instantly break out in war.