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0 pointsoxfordmale3y ago0 comments

Let's do a thought experiment and see what functions aren't needed to keep the light on for 30 days:

1) HR 2) Legal 3) Sales 4) Marketing 5) Payroll 6) Admin staff 7) Most of Engineering, other than the bare minimum of L1/L2/3 support.

As someone paraphrased, a car without breaks and steering wheel works just fine until you hit the first bend.

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coldtea3y ago

>As someone paraphrased, a car without breaks and steering wheel works just fine until you hit the first bend.

On the other hand, a car without a second and third steering wheel, 20 windscreen wipers, and an oven in the back, keeps running just fine, even after the first bend...

yywwbbn3y ago

True, you might be also forced to sell the windshield, doors and the seats to pay the $4 million in interest each day you didn’t have to before

scott_w3y ago

That might be fine but do you want to fly in a plane that only has one engine? What about if it has no fallback if the main sensors freeze?

coldtea3y ago

>That might be fine but do you want to fly in a plane that only has one engine?

I've done that lots of times. As do almost all people flying Cessnas, Moonys, Pipers and the like...

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nashashmi3y ago

Unless the first steering wheel is prone to breaking. Redundancy is the difference between a million dollar company and billion dollar company.

Of course getting workers to come on on weekends and midnight hours accomplishes the same thing.

bena3y ago

But the trick here is to discover which analogy we're dealing with.

We don't know. It could be a situation with one steering wheel and 40 wipers. And as long as it's the wipers that fail, we're fine.

jiggawatts3y ago

This is more like a car with just the bare essentials: an engine, steering wheel, brakes, and the like.

No: radio, air-conditioning, seat padding, wipers, lights, radar, etc...

Oh, and no maintenance.

It'll drive... for now. But that's it.

sydd3y ago

More like a racecar without maintenance. Heres an example checklist what they need: https://www.teamstradale.com/frequency-of-maintenance-keepin...

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coldtea3y ago

>As someone paraphrased, a car without breaks and steering wheel works just fine until you hit the first bend.

On the other hand, a car without a second and third steering wheel, 20 windscreen wipers, and an oven in the back, keeps running just fine, even after the first bend...

yywwbbn3y ago

True, you might be also forced to sell the windshield, doors and the seats to pay the $4 million in interest each day you didn’t have to before

scott_w3y ago

That might be fine but do you want to fly in a plane that only has one engine? What about if it has no fallback if the main sensors freeze?

coldtea3y ago

>That might be fine but do you want to fly in a plane that only has one engine?

I've done that lots of times. As do almost all people flying Cessnas, Moonys, Pipers and the like...

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nashashmi3y ago

Unless the first steering wheel is prone to breaking. Redundancy is the difference between a million dollar company and billion dollar company.

Of course getting workers to come on on weekends and midnight hours accomplishes the same thing.

bena3y ago

But the trick here is to discover which analogy we're dealing with.

We don't know. It could be a situation with one steering wheel and 40 wipers. And as long as it's the wipers that fail, we're fine.

jiggawatts3y ago

This is more like a car with just the bare essentials: an engine, steering wheel, brakes, and the like.

No: radio, air-conditioning, seat padding, wipers, lights, radar, etc...

Oh, and no maintenance.

It'll drive... for now. But that's it.

sydd3y ago

More like a racecar without maintenance. Heres an example checklist what they need: https://www.teamstradale.com/frequency-of-maintenance-keepin...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse