San Francisco’s $1.7M single stall toilet

7 responses to “San Francisco’s $1.7M single stall toilet”

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   jurvetson

   Mar 10, 2024 at 12:15 am

   on site today… Signage on fence:

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2. 

   Henrique Vicente

   Mar 10, 2024 at 10:59 am

   The state at peak efficiency. Spending others’ money is easy when you have a virtually unlimited capability to plunder.

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3. 

   Less than meets the eye

   Mar 10, 2024 at 11:27 am

   At least it represents a tiny amount of cash denied to the obscene levels of US "defence" spending.

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   Josh Thompson

   Mar 10, 2024 at 4:11 pm

   Reminiscent of the infamous "$600 hammer" that motivated VP Gore’s "Reinventing government" push in the 90s.

   Obviously there’s a reason we run most of society on market mechanisms. (Not that big corporations are exactly free of waste.) But not everything can be provided by the market and those who wish to provide through non-market mechanisms need to ensure that this type of waste is avoided, at the risk of discrediting public efforts of any kind.

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   beans_again?

   Mar 11, 2024 at 8:29 am

   “Concerns were expressed in an October 1997 hearing before the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, House Committee on Appropriations… subcommittee members raised a number of questions regarding the $330,000 out-house at the Delaware Gap National Recreation Area that cost more than three times the average cost of a new 2,000-square-foot home with three bedrooms and two baths in the same area.”
   — General Accounting Office

   Source: "NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: Efforts to Identify and Manage Maintenance Backlog, GAO/RCED-98-143, May 1998, pp. 13.

   Inflation?😮

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   sbove

   Mar 11, 2024 at 2:10 pm

   The time is NOW to do to all US Federal and Local Governments what Elon did to Twitter. FIRE 90% instantly, cut costs to absolute minimums and place all spending authority in the hands of a small group of rational humans (with appropriate checks and balances) until the situation can be normalized. This is a nation-wide catastrophe.

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   jurvetson

   Apr 2, 2024 at 8:51 pm

   [https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenbove] Yes! Like Argentina. Just like Twitter, if you lose 70% of the people, you become MORE productive.

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