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What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?
  • I don't agree with the can example. Those are physically smaller and lack meaningful slack fill.

    Your points stand for the first purchase. After that people will know the proportion of chip to air, and be annoyed by it. If they could do a bag smaller with minimal chip breakage and less air they would both succeed at getting more bags out per pallet and be lauded for not cheating people by selling air.

    The slack fill is functional, and I don't see much incentive to over do it.

  • What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't?
  • What is the company's incentive to make the package bigger than it needs to be?

    Shipping costs come two fold... Weight and number of pallets. Weight change is negligible here, but the amount of air they need to ship will increase. They are incentivized to reduce it to a minimum to save on shelf, storage, and distribution costs.

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  • I'm also wondering what the ROI is on automation costs and maintenance thereafter versus paying a conductor to just drive the thing.

    In Copenhagen, the metro is fully automated and there are discussions of doing the same with the commuter rail (all grade separated). I think the more interesting benefit to the commuter rail is they will run closer together in time and run more frequently at night (every 10 vs 20 or 30 minutes)... But I don't think the financials would ever really pay for the upgrades needed...

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  • But there are checks against their rulings.

    Most of their decisions are around laws that can be rewritten to correct whatever negative outcome was seen in the court. This meets your simple majority and presidential signature standard.

    For claims of constitutionality there is still a check via amending the constitution... Which is not far from your proposal of 2/3 of Congress. You just also have to clear 3/4 of the states.

    I think the problem is the idiots that are supposed to be the check are fully supporting what the courts are doing--and the idiots don't actually represent the interests or will of the people.

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  • I didn't read the CNN piece as being overly critical. I read it as saying more like "hey she's not all that bad. She's actually pretty clever, but lack of trial experience is just bogging down process. She's learning and doesn't have anyone to mentor her in her lonely courthouse"

    I left reading it a bit pissed off that such a fluff piece was even published.

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    edition.cnn.com Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump | CNN Politics

    Rudy Giuliani is staring down hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills and sanctions amid numerous lawsuits in addition to the new criminal charges – related to his work for Donald Trump after the 2020 election.

    Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump | CNN Politics

    If only he knew a competent lawyer.

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