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I'd describe it as a vicious cycle of incompetence and misunderstanding risk. They exacerbate each other. It all begins with someone trying to get something don
by blowski 7y ago
I'd describe it as a vicious cycle of incompetence and misunderstanding risk. They exacerbate each other. It all begins with someone trying to get something done as cheaply as possible in an area about which they are ignorant.
Whether they are a "corrupt cowboy" or "cost-efficient genius" mostly depends on whether the project is a success, and that depends on luck.
- seemslegit 7y agoWe don't have the exact details here yet but I'm willing to bet that a rather fat contract was given to someone affiliated with a Likud center member (equivalent to a US party boss) who then sought the cheapest provider while pocketing the difference or maybe handed it to their relative.
- EGreg 7y agoPrivate ownership of contractor businesses means decisions are made by a few at the top :) Relevant comment I wrote on how to solve that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289943
- seemslegit 7y agoExcept in this case the decisions were probably made by an underqualified codeling at the bottom who possibly could not even been expected to know better and not take the assignment, that's the immediate stupidity part - the malice is what led to this situation in the first place and saw the result rolled to production.
- seemslegit 7y agoI don't see how that comment is specifically relevant to anything at hand here.