The field of logistics these days really needs a specialist study of how to run supply lines past political and bureaucratic barriershttps://twitter.com/chadpergram/status/914473580091592706 …
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This but repeated ad nauseum for environment, workers, security, poor people, etcetera is the cancer killing our civilizationpic.twitter.com/1s2Gjg5KXB
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Fewer stakes and stakeholders. Our diminished tolerance for occupational hazard is but one way we differ from our grim ancestors.
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“Our” is a false concept here. There is no we, just the authoritarians pretending to act on everyone else’s behalf.
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it isn't "authoritarians", the ruling class is made up of squeamish bureaucrats reacting to a spiritless public
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this is how "maga" should have been implemented, economic/spiritual revitalization via mass infrastructure buildout
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given trump's proclivities there's no way it would have been anything but graft unless he was sidelined though
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I have a considerably less dim view of the man and his proclivities.
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for me the hope was always that he would be the instrument through which bannon guided policy
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second best outcome is his ineptitude and unwillingness to listen to his minders precipitates delegitimizing spiral
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i remember on I think scott aaronsons blog? after trump won in the comment section mm was arguing w/ ppl and his most bombastic point was
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if you dropped 19th century america in the ocean next to us and gave them wikipedia they would conquer us within the decade
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which I remember being hilarious because it was p literally true
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Most of the comments on Elon Musk’s rocket transport that I saw were hand-wringers complaining about the safety concerns. Literally, sad.
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no that one actually is dumb
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Dumb or not, most of the concerns were purely made-up & based on no real analysis, just feeling generally apprehensive about any risk.
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Concern Trolling as counter-revolutionary luddite praxis
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Seems this is a default behavior in humans, I know people c-trolled the guy who invented the wheel & definitely the guy who invented fire.
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Are you familiar with this one?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago …
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100 years ago the Second Ave Subway would've been built very differently though. Shallow cut and cover, with no huge mezzanines.
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yea and maybe it'd have more than two tracks
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It's actually not clear why it's so absurdly expensive. Probably a combo of overdesign, inefficient work rules, and poor project management.
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Problem is, if projects are this expensive will be rare, giving no chance to build up project management experience.
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fire all upper management and make the rest shadow MTR while they dig the tunnels
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