Cancelling Strauss

[Klaus]

@axtremus said in Cancelling Strauss:

Street “names” are silly. Just number them instead.
E.g., “36th Avenue,” “D Street”, “the 36-D intersection.”

Have you ever been to a city that does not have a block structure? People are not good at remembering numbers. Also, it is a nice opportunity to honor and remember people with street names.

[Doctor Phibes]

Maybe we should start giving people numbers rather than names, too. Much more efficient.

[Mik]

@axtremus said in Cancelling Strauss:

Street “names” are silly. Just number them instead.
E.g., “36th Avenue,” “D Street”, “the 36-D intersection.”

Only you.

[Catseye3]

@doctor-phibes said in Cancelling Strauss:

Maybe we should start giving people numbers rather than names, too.

Or with streets, do both at once, like Toity-Toid Street.

[Axtremus]

@doctor-phibes said in Cancelling Strauss:

Maybe we should start giving people numbers rather than names, too. Much more efficient.

Indeed. Social Security number, passport number, driver's license number, national identity card number ... that's about the only way to organize large number of people.

[Axtremus]

@klaus said in Cancelling Strauss:

@axtremus said in Cancelling Strauss:

Street “names” are silly. Just number them instead.
E.g., “36th Avenue,” “D Street”, “the 36-D intersection.”

Have you ever been to a city that does not have a block structure? People are not good at remembering numbers. Also, it is a nice opportunity to honor and remember people with street names.

Indeed, block structure is not a prerequisite to enumerating objects. As a civilization we have developed ways to enumerate things even in non-Euclidean spaces. It is sentimentally nice to honor and remember people with street names, but that also leads to controversial calls to rename street names according to the social zeitgeist of the day.

[Klaus]

@axtremus said in Cancelling Strauss:

@klaus said in Cancelling Strauss:

@axtremus said in Cancelling Strauss:

Street “names” are silly. Just number them instead.
E.g., “36th Avenue,” “D Street”, “the 36-D intersection.”

Have you ever been to a city that does not have a block structure? People are not good at remembering numbers. Also, it is a nice opportunity to honor and remember people with street names.

Indeed, block structure is not a prerequisite to enumerating objects. As a civilization we have developed ways to enumerate things even in non-Euclidean spaces. It is sentimentally nice to honor and remember people with street names, but that also leads to controversial calls to rename street names according to the social zeitgeist of the day.

People cannot remember numbers nearly as well as names. It's impractical to use numbers, unless you have block structure.

Also, using numbers wouldn't help at all with the controversy. Lots of numbers have historical associations. 18 = Adolf Hitler. 311 = Ku Klux Klan. And so forth.

[Renauda]

Most streets and avenues in older areas are numbered in this city. Like virtially every city in this part of the country it is a block structure. Makes it easy to find places without having to refer to a map or GPS.

[Doctor Phibes]

@klaus said in Cancelling Strauss:

Also, using numbers wouldn't help at all with the controversy. Lots of numbers have historical associations. 18 = Adolf Hitler. 311 = Ku Klux Klan. And so forth.

I get my kicks on Route 666.

[Ivorythumper]

@axtremus said in Cancelling Strauss:

@doctor-phibes said in Cancelling Strauss:

Maybe we should start giving people numbers rather than names, too. Much more efficient.

Indeed. Social Security number, passport number, driver's license number, national identity card number ... that's about the only way to organize large number of people.

The progressives have already tried that.

[taiwan_girl]

I think it is places in Japan, where the numbers on the house are when it was built, so the numbers are not necessarily in order as you go up or down the street. 555