My new favorite example of infrastructure cost disease: construction of the Eiffel Tower cost $40 million *in 2019 dollars*. (Also, it took 2 years and 2 months to build.)
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If one seeks to build a new house or office (or a new variant of some existing aircraft) in the US today, it will be based on, and accelerated by, pre-existing know-how and tooling… but it won’t happen in 60 days.
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So in this case what comes to mind is to find how long it takes to do a custom Cessna small plane. In the Airbus A330neo case, timing was 2 years, but also we would agree it's a more complex project. And yes, there is also better tooling to pair it. Better tools and more diff
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Agree with the agreement and disagreement :-) The hard question is to adequately control for X (And what the X's may be) when assessing speed of execution. It's not a solved problem for the general case and it'd be unfair of me to ask for a solution before writing about it
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