Those “units” are the Spruce Street Mansion and while it was originally a house it has been converted to office space. It holds a law firm and a company called Discover Boulder Tours. The nearest house that is for sale to this location is 3.6M for ~3000 sqft or $1200/sqft, so if these were residences I’m not going to have much sympathy for the rich assholes. The Pearl Street Mall in Boulder doesn’t need a park. It is going to need a ton of short term housing starting next year because of Sundance. This hotel is to put downward pressure on the number of airbnbs in the city.

I’m all for being anti development. I grew up in Boulder and it invented a lot of the anti development playbook. Boulder is so desirable precisely because it became very anti development 50 years ago allowing it to build a unique and desirable city. But this? This is rich NIMBY bullshit. They want their property values to go up because a speculator wants to buy it for a short term rental that is only occupied a couple months of the year during a film festival. Be anti development for sustainability reasons, not because rich jerks want higher housing prices.

Two more reasons not yet mentioned:

It is close to a population center (Phoenix) keeping latency low to customers. Getting customers off the public Internet quickly and into your private network fast is best for a lot of reasons.

Cheap and abundant solar power. Data centers are extremely power hungry and power lines are expensive so companies like Amazon almost always secure abundant power rights before building. Google built their first data center in The Dalles Oregon because an aluminum smelter had gone belly up and left a bunch of capacity unclaimed in a local hydroelectric dam.

Not the person you’re replying to but:

1. Yes, managing your relationship with your coworkers will be helpful at all stages of your career. You’re not managing them, you’re managing your relationship with them. It helps you listen, ask simple questions about who they are and listen. You don’t have to care, you only have to share a little. You’re not building a friendship unless you want to. You’re cultivating a positive relationship so that they know they can depend on you when they need it.

2. Yes, exhausting. It’s called masking and everybody whether they are neuro divergent or not does it. Some people find it trivial, some find it nearly impossible. My wife can tell the difference between my work voice and my regular voice because at work I’m masking. I’ve been working on bringing the two closer together because I’ve found it is beneficial to my career to be more myself.

Honestly Hyperion landed so hard for me that I didn’t need the second or the Endymion books. The second is certainly superior to the rest but Hyperion was so magical that it was just downhill from there for me.

Long cat

Long cat

He is long

And is a cat

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Disclosure: my wife is the singer songwriter in the house so this is technically her’s

Their initial reply to you is sarcastic. They were agreeing with you, not arguing with you

What about 2nd study, 3rd study… 11 studies

Effectuate

I’m going to effectuate this pole right up the ass of the next person to use that word.