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Why wasn't the federal government doing this? How hard would it have been for the new "shipping czar" to have gone down there and seen what at least one simple issue was and get it fixed?
Why wasn't the federal government doing this? How hard would it have been for the new "shipping czar" to have gone down there and seen what at least one simple issue was and get it fixed?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/23/pete-b...
Truckers are leaving containers all over Los Angeles.[1] Allowing stacking over 2 high is only useful if you have the equipment to stack over 2 high. A place that just stacks empty containers 2 high probably only has large forklifts. The special equipment for high stacking is far more expensive, and only bought if you need it.[2] A more useful proposal is a "peel pile".[3] This is a system which assigns outgoing truc…
My understanding of what the Flexport CEO said in their twitter thread was that the best example of the problem is the haulage company that's keeping its driver count * 3 empty containers around on-chassis (which I think means on wheels), just sitting in their parking lot, because they have nowhere to put their empties, because they empty-storage is maxed out at the 2-height capacity. All/most of the haulage company's chassis are now tied up with empty containers, which prevents them from being able to go pick up filled containers to ship, which stops the full containers from getting picked, etc.
Cool. Now we have more space to store the empty containers temporaly. Is this going to solve the problem or only save us a few days?
It doesn't fix anything, but it creates buffer space that can potentially be used to fix things that otherwise can't be fixed
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Zoning is not the same as regulation. We shouldn’t be spewing carcinogenic PCBs anywhere . Gigantic factories don’t want to be on small residential streets anyway because they cant fit the trucks in, so I think that argument cuts the other way - there are natural forces that deter that stuff.
yet commercial zoning regulations exist for some reason. if "natural forces" prevent all negative outcomes, why do they exist ?
Why wasn't the federal government doing this? How hard would it have been for the new "shipping czar" to have gone down there and seen what at least one simple issue was and get it fixed?
The guy in charge took a paternity leave for 2 months and no one in the media even noticed.
Don't worry, once people did notice, it did take long before they started ridiculing him for spending time with his family.
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You can’t flat out say the rise in retail sales is due to stimulus. There are a lot of disruptions over the last year that have shifted spend from things like dining out and travel.
This chart tells you most of what you need to know. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPI This shows the insane increase in personal income over the course of the pandemic. Many made more money on enhanced UI benefits than in their line of work. This is a known fact. People in this situation have more propensity to spend the marginal dollar than higher income earners. Spending as a percentage of income inversely tre…
Everyone's been stuck at home and purchasing consumer items that would usually be bought in bulk and supplied by employers, restaurants, etc.
Claiming it's government spending as the cause and not covid as the cause seems silly
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If it was a high leverage decision, you would have hoped one of the officials appointed to fix the situation would have already noticed and fixed it. So either they are completely incompetent or the decision didn't matter much.
> So either they are completely incompetent or the decision didn't matter much. Or the field always wins. Every year a large team of highly paid professionals is responsible for selecting the best professional sports prospects to join their team. The team that goes first (almost) never gets the best player. Its not because they're incompetent. And its not because the decision doesn't matter- these are multi billion d…
Why wasn't the federal government doing this? How hard would it have been for the new "shipping czar" to have gone down there and seen what at least one simple issue was and get it fixed?
People are waking up and realizing that government is pretty useless for specific action. Our representatives would rather pontificate about vague niceties.
Well, sure. The higher up you go, the less tactical (and more strategic) you become. You wouldn't want your CTO to launch code to production. You want her to make sure there is a plan to utilize CICD practices- that the ICs implement.
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If it was a high leverage decision, you would have hoped one of the officials appointed to fix the situation would have already noticed and fixed it. So either they are completely incompetent or the decision didn't matter much.
> one of the officials appointed to fix the situation Genuine question: Are there actual officials appointed to fix the situation? If so, who are they?