[aaron695]

Good to see a Hacker is now being a bureaucrat reading books of city codes over Neuromancer.

These are peoples homes, the danger is probably less than many US ghettos or homeless encampments, how about we start bulldozing those which are unsafe and ugly if people homes have no meaning.

There's no reason you cant make communities not up to spec with current building codes safe. This is normal for historic buildings which have exceptions.

The Ghost Ship fire was a concert, I don't believe any killed were residents.

> This city of the future sounds like nothing I want a part of.

Nothing like never leaving the safety of the suburban home I guess, the new hacker ethos.

[whythre]

Surely there is middle ground here- I agree with the general sentiment though; the perfect need not be the enemy of the good.

[vidarh]

I don't really think your comment contradicts the comment you reply to - as you point out one way of addressing the failure to meet building codes is to make those communities safe.

But just defining their around the lack of safety is a poor option. It's hard to tell from the article whether they just worked around the bureaucracy without fixing the issues or if they made it safe in non-standard ways too. And so everyone would probably be better served if there was a process for handling exceptions that actually assessed and documented that a non-standard method was used and that someone signed it off as safe enough, so that ambiguity wasn't there.

(And the world of Neuromancer isn't one I'd like to live in, as much as I loved reading about it)

[hutzlibu]

In general I agree with your sentiment, but I think one can do alternative living without building codes, that is safe and clean unlike the ghost ship apparently was, and also:

"The Ghost Ship fire was a concert, I don't believe any killed were residents."

"One victim of the fire was a building resident."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ship_warehouse_fire

They knew they had faulty electricity and they had a small fire before.