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"The government also wants to maintain redundant capabilities..." As a taxpayer, I'm totally enthusiastic on board with this strategy. Said another way, I dema
by specialist 6y ago
"The government also wants to maintain redundant capabilities..."
As a taxpayer, I'm totally enthusiastic on board with this strategy. Said another way, I demand that our government hedges and mitigates risks.
Many of our current challenges are because of previous ill-advised efficiency efforts.
- valuearb 6y agoReal redundancy is provided through high cadence operations, which is SpaceX all the way. Paying billions extra for inferior hardware adds little redundant benefit.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThat's only one dimension of redundancy. The other one is control/ownership. High cadence won't save you if they suffer a problem that shuts down their entire fleet for a year, or if through a hyperloop accident Gwynne Shotwell gets replaced by her counterpart from the mirror universe, and decides to stop servicing US government unless she gets to be the empress. Point being - and tangentially, it's somewhat of a blind spot in tech industry - besides scaling, you also really need ownership/control redundancy. Legal single points of failure are still single points of failure.