John Hawkins

[John Hawkins @JohnMHawk]

@criticalurban ...before additional "administration" is un- or even counter-productive. But urbanists no longer understand what legitimate function cities have in society, and just see them as a place for people to live and buy stuff.

[John Hawkins @JohnMHawk]

@criticalurban The fundamental problem is the only really productive things you can do in dense, urban cores are administrative functions, which distorts the "tax revenue" graphs as the administration sucks money from the region. But there's only so much administration a region needs...

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@FischerKing64 Crime *reporting* is way down. Crime itself, not so much.

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@criticalurban I think it's telling that urbanism always talks about the cost of a road network as a subsidy to the workers living in the suburbs rather than as a subsidy to the corporations employing them.

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@TitusPullo1125 @ImKingGinger Announcers Voice: He wasn't a random guy.

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@KathMadden91004 @north0fnorth Kinda looked like it had flashing lights up front, but that might just be LED flicker with the camera.

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@SFLTVBossMan @north0fnorth in particular, space planned for cars to pull over when an emergency vehicles needs to get through.

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@Buddhagem @dav64635 Yet you don't because the people who live there don't have the necessary skills, and the people who do have the skills don't want to live there. You may live like ants in your hive, but that doesn't mean people are indistinguishable worker-ants.

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@Mariano04230215 @carney OTOH, we shouldn't allow the government to take advantage of retarded people by hiding their tax burden. Or else we shouldn't allow retarded people to vote.

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@criticalurban See! See how dangerous cars are! You can't even climb out of a sewer without almost being run down. Not to mention how boring the suburban sewers are.

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@NaturalNeonRain @Pontus4Pope @Michael_Druggan in particular, there seems to be a lack of training in connecting costs to revenue, with too many people in accounting treating revenue as a given regardless of cost, so leaving cost out of this question plays into that failure.

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@NaturalNeonRain @Pontus4Pope @Michael_Druggan I have an engineering degree, I understand math and stats perfectly well. Over my life, I've run into too many accountants who cannot apply stats to the real world and create problems, hence my objection to this question.

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@criticalurban @A1987dM True, and this is why even in "walkable" cities you find large amounts of (car-haters cover your ears) parking. Without the parking, the city center of most places not Manhattan would die.

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@sewell_herb @Pontus4Pope @Michael_Druggan Funny that you insist on ignoring the negative expected *outcome* and call this a "financial literacy" test. But then that is the problem with bean-counters, they can count the beans but don't know how the beans actually work in the real world, so... it fits.

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@NaturalNeonRain @Pontus4Pope @Michael_Druggan It can be as "well-defined" as you want, but in any sort of actual "financial literacy" test, the answer is always "the expected winnings are less than the cost" because that's how lotto's work. If you want to use this sort of question, phrase it as someone gave you the ticket.

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@ChristianHeiens Cityfolk are incompetent voters. We should contemplate how to fix that.

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@WVmotoguy @ShamashAran When the Saxon began to hate..

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@Michael_Druggan @3RenChengHu That says more about people promoting "decision theory" than about anyone answering the question.

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@shitbeast_arc @ReapthewhirlSL @Spyk3O "The rule is clear!" Fight breaks out. "The rule is CLEAR!" more fights break out. "The rule is..." Dude, read the room