[HN Gopher] The best seat in town
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       The best seat in town
        
       Author : NaOH
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2026-04-09 15:43 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.torched.la)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.torched.la)
        
       | pstuart wrote:
       | Public restrooms are a sign of advanced civilizations. It's a
       | pity that they have to be built to withstand damage from
       | hooligans.
        
         | Computer0 wrote:
         | The restroom building provides more utility than most buildings
         | do to a hooligan. Unclear why it is an enemy.
        
           | staplers wrote:
           | Any "private" space in a public place becomes valuable with
           | more density. It's basic scarcity incentives. It
           | unfortunately incentivizes hooligans to make the restroom
           | appear even more disheveled and unsafe to increase the
           | privacy (less people want to go in it)
        
             | mfro wrote:
             | You're reading way too far into it. Private spaces are
             | simply easier targets.
        
               | bombcar wrote:
               | So the solution is obviously
               | https://juxthpose.wordpress.com/wp-
               | content/uploads/2012/09/m...
        
           | CGMthrowaway wrote:
           | Vandalism scales linearly with [accessible, visible,
           | unsupervised].
           | 
           | Uncorrelated with the usefulness of the building after
           | controlling for other factors
        
       | Rebelgecko wrote:
       | I don't really understand why the author is dumping on LA's
       | toilets so much while praising how Parisian toilets are so useful
       | for everyday people like commuters. The LA Metro program, which
       | is expanding and seems to be very successful, has very different
       | goals and challenges than the skid row public bathrooms.
        
       | readthenotes1 wrote:
       | "JCDeaux basically invented the idea of Street furniture"
       | 
       | That is a fairly strong claim on the surface and the company's
       | website has a slightly different one:
       | 
       | "In 1964, Jean-Claude Decaux invented advertising street
       | furniture."
       | 
       | Such a fundamental mistake in the opening paragraph. Made me
       | realize I could not trust whatever was written afterwards.
        
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