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This approach doesn't scale though. Its great that it worked for you, truly, but it unfortunately doesn't scale as a reliable way to budget for groceries
by no_wizard 2y ago
This approach doesn't scale though. Its great that it worked for you, truly, but it unfortunately doesn't scale as a reliable way to budget for groceries
- adolph 2y agodo things that don't scale https://paulgraham.com/ds.html https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
- organsnyder 2y agoThat doesn't work for broad societal problems.
- outside1234 2y agoPaul meant his comment in the sense that that is a good way to START -- but then you have to figure out how to SCALE it. I think what you'd find as you scaled it is that you'd turn into ConAgra.
- niemandhier 2y agoThe problem of modern society that we want one solution that scales. What we need is 1000s of solutions that don’t. Every case is a special case if you treat enough variables, nothing is close in high dimensional space.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 2y agoIf I agree with you can I still be part of modern society?
- niemandhier 2y agoWe can both be part of post modern society, the answer is not to return to the old but embrace the new possibilities. Precisions farming and decentralised housing and transport are steps in that direction.
- no_wizard 2y agoI don't disagree, but this isn't it. Its too circumstantial to scale to even a dozen people in a locality. It isn't that it doesn't scale to the masses, its that it doesn't really scale at all
- neilv 2y agoIt can scale a bit more than one might think. For example, the Wikipedia page for Boston Haymarket even mentions that produce goes to super-cheap near weekly closing.
- no_wizard 2y agoStill won’t scale to solve the problems at hand, even if you can find counter examples, it simply isn’t broadly applicable enough