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>These costs do not vanish merely because the work itself is out-of-sight. This quotation isn't technically true. There are actual costs that do vanish dependi
by corethree 3y ago
>These costs do not vanish merely because the work itself is out-of-sight.
This quotation isn't technically true. There are actual costs that do vanish depending on who you contract to. This is completely independent of quality. They are orthogonal.
The sacrifice is characterized as a guaranteed drop in quality if costs are lowered. No. When you sub contract quality is just harder to control. You are rolling the dice. But depending on the sub contractor there can even be an increase in quality along with a cost drop.
For example: iPhones. Subcontracted to china. But pretty high quality. Of course apple had to move over qc to china but there was still overall an up in quality with a cost drop.
- lostlogin 3y agoCould someone who disagrees with this offer their counterpoint?
- corethree 3y agoHaha. This is an illustration of human bias. You can't find a counter point on your own so instead of building a conclusion based off of evidence you call out to others to provide you with evidence so you can support your desired conclusion.
- binoct 3y agoA more charitable read of the question could be: GP reads a compelling argument about a topic they have little expertise in, and are curious if there are dissenting opinions. We can also talk about how much to trust comments on hacker news generally, but multiple data points from any quality of source are better than one.
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- corethree 3y agoThis is true. I'm assuming disagreement in general because my post has negative karma. I therefore think it's more realistic to assume that he disagrees. But you're right I could be wrong. Anyway my comment was very general. And I offered a anecdotal counter point. Falsification only needs a single piece of evidence as proof. A single example of a sub contractor who is both cheap and high quality will falsify the general quotation here. There is literally no stronger argument in existence. So not surprised that people can't find a counter point as what I offered is literal proof. Other then dismissing the quality of iPhones coming out of china, At best one can counter by changing the topic of the debate. You could say that in general there's a trend of lower quality associated with lower cost and that while it's not strictly true, it could be generally true. But that's not the argument. In fact on that topic i am not making such a strong claim that it isn't true. For that topic I literally don't know.