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They were planned to be bad, but after a while they became rather good. The factory approach results in incremental improvements all around, including build qu

• gumby 5y ago
  > They were planned to be bad, but after a while they became rather good This is the very definition of the (misunderstood) learning curve.
  • a9h74j 5y ago
    In this half-fraught context, I'd like to raise the question of a potential new era of "liberty ships" -- i.e. proposal(s) to build modular nuclear plants using shipbuilding technology and scales. Presumably high standards of quality control could be maintained from the start.
    • mLuby 5y ago
      On the other end, one wonders how large freighters might become were the Panama and Suez canals not constraints.