Better to have quirky and amusing oddities in a system, than a system that doesn't exist at all. There was another HN posting some months ago, about a Central A

Better to have quirky and amusing oddities in a system, than a system that doesn't exist at all. There was another HN posting some months ago, about a Central American country that had a fully functioning nationwide street-address system ... which disintegrated because it was not maintained. Now it is almost impossible to mail anything to the country, because every address is some variant of "thirty steps from the grocery store". Take nothing for granted. Everything requires upkeep, maintenance, and renewal. This applies to buildings, ethics, cultures, laws, borders, militaries, and constitutions.