Miami and Seattle are the sunk cost fallacy in urban form. No one in their right mind would build cities there today
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Replying to @spacecojo
oh man. You’re about to embark on a fun Google journey
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Replying to @Pinboard
volcano, maybe a quake, sure, but it's certainly no annual hurricane situation
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Replying to @Pinboard @spacecojo
not like they're building anything new with brick though so not sure sunk cost fallacy applies. Maybe to the viaduct replacement tunnel.
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Replying to @Angola_Maldives @spacecojo
the city is impossible to retrofit for the level of risk it faces. That’s what I mean by sunk costs
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Replying to @Pinboard @Angola_Maldives
high risk, low probability circumstance for seattle is still different from rebuilding Miami
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Replying to @spacecojo @Angola_Maldives
I think you mean low recurrence rate. Probability is ~1
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Replying to @Pinboard @Angola_Maldives
by that definition, it's also the same probability as the heat death of the universe
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I’m a believer in subduction
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