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The key metric is not how far away your collaborator is in miles, but in minutes.

It is much easier to get around in San Jose. You could collaborate with a lot of people within a half-hour drive in San Jose, probably more than in San Francisco. NYC is similarly over-weighted for collaboration.

Assume people distribute themselves according to that metric, then per-capita makes more sense than per area.

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