Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
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Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#2reading that made me think of the Byrd's song
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#3OPEN SOURCE THE MAGIC CHALK RECIPE AND MACHINE PLANS
Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#4reading that made me think of the Byrd's song To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
That's not the original source though, FYI.
Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#5reading that made me think of the Byrd's song To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Love the quotation, and also didn't realize it came from a Bible verse originally.
Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#6reading that made me think of the Byrd's song To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Ecclesiastes 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#7OPEN SOURCE THE MAGIC CHALK RECIPE AND MACHINE PLANS
I don't think there is any concise secret formula that one could just copy to paper and readapt.
The article gives the impression there was a specific highly custom production system where the materials were selected for the machines and the machines were fit for the materials. And the machines were apparently jury rigged adaptations which probably lack detailed blueprints. Sounds a bit hard to formalize, after the fact, without quite a laborious effort.
Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#8The main reason, apparently: "These days, local governments focus on bid prices rather than quality."
High quality commodities are considered nowadays luxury and not bare minimum. Quite sad, really.
Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#9It's amazing that they had just one set of machines to make all their chalk. I hope the South Korean version would be successful.
Re: Hagoromo president explains why he closed down his beloved chalk business
#10The main reason, apparently: "These days, local governments focus on bid prices rather than quality." High quality commodities are considered nowadays luxury and not bare minimum. Quite sad, really.
I think the statement following this is much more important and interesting to HN:
> The tendency has become more and more prevalent under electronic auction systems.
While incidents like this are often used as examples of the failures of technocracy, I think the problem is elsewhere. A decision process has been out-sourced to a machine that is not smart enough yet to make a good decision. The decision might be good in a very localized and easy to measure sense (cheap), but lacks an understanding of other economical signals.