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Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by quotemstr »

csee wrote: post #26
TameAntelope wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know who Ryan Peterson is? He's not an "outsider", he is the CEO of a digital supply chain company. He's a "foremost expert", to be sure.

A large team under POTUS has been working on this for two weeks and the Flexport CEO can sail through and come up with this within 24 hours of doing that? That's embarrassing and concerning. EDIT yes he's not an outsider to the industry, I mean he's an outsider to the group of officials who were tasked with solving this problem.

Same thing happened with healthcare.gov, yes?

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by Kinrany »

asplake wrote: post #83

And in the middle of all that, Theory of Constraints in a tweet: “When you're designing an operation you must choose your bottleneck. If the bottleneck appears somewhere that you didn't choose it, you aren't running an operation. It's running you.” https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543795045183490?s=2...

It's often said that ToC is a popularization of operations management knowledge that already existed at the time. Is there a better textbook that is more technical and not too dry?

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by quotemstr »

aerosmile wrote: post #157
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #54

I thought that Flexport CEO's tweet stream was really great - had a ton of insightful, first hand information and made the problem very clear. Especially import was the feedback loops showing how the system was essentially deadlocked, in the classical sense of the term.

The guy is a bad ass. If he wanted to run for President, he would win. I am really not exaggerating - I had a chance to meet him a few years back, and at that time he was the most impressive person I had talked to in person for an extended amount of time (not based on credentials or achievement, but simply based on clarity of thought and new ways of thinking). I also know that PG rates him incredibly highly. To give…

> If he wanted to run for President, he would win

Yes. It would be great to have non-ideological leadership focused on solving practical problems instead of waging culture war.

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by 8note »

spothedog1 wrote: post #47
throwaway984393 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In practice, people are pushed out of their homes because they can't afford to live in the neighborhood full of high rise apartments anymore, and they then struggle to make a living (much less find another place to live). It's funny that the GDP itself is prized over the people who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of an economy with a high GDP.

If the demand exists to build high rises then those people would already be pushed out at an ever faster rate. If you take a plot of land that previously had 4 units on it and turn it into a high rise with 100 units, then you can fit 96 higher income people onto that plot of land. In the scenario where you don't build that high rise, those 96 higher income people simply go into the existing housing stock and push tho…

Why are the higher income people wanting to live in the worse accommodations in the high rise?

If they can push people out of houses regardless, theyre still going to go for the houses.

It'd be better to redirect demand elsewhere, so the wealthy people can build their own infrastructure and community rather than co-opting an existing one

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by skzv »

codezero wrote: post #84

A little off topic, but these ports don’t usually store so many empty crates, so why do we have them now? Are we not exporting at the same rate? Is that even what empty crates are used for? I’m assuming they aren’t sent back to (mostly?) China empty. I read something about the prices to ship out of the US being very high, but isn’t the price coming in also similarly proportionally high, yet we still have a backlog of…

> Are we not exporting at the same rate?

Yes. To quote JP Morgan's recent article "Dude, where's my stuff?"[0]:

> The surge in US import demand has led to a sharp rise in eastbound freight rates (see charts for Shanghai->LA and Shanghai->Rotterdam). However, westbound freight rates have not risen nearly as much, leading to an odd and problematic phenomenon: incentives for container owners to move them back to China empty to accelerate receipt of eastbound freight rates, instead of waiting for containers to be refilled to earn westbound freight rates as well. This further exacerbates supply chain issues, since US goods (i.e., grains) that were supposed to depart US railcars and warehouses for export remain in place, occupying space that US imported goods were destined for.

[0] https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/institutional...

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by quotemstr »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #54

I thought that Flexport CEO's tweet stream was really great - had a ton of insightful, first hand information and made the problem very clear. Especially import was the feedback loops showing how the system was essentially deadlocked, in the classical sense of the term.

> Especially import was the feedback loops showing how the system was essentially deadlocked, in the classical sense of the term.

This whole situation would make a great "systems design"-level tech interview question!

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by irrational »

GuB-42 wrote: post #171
polote wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Truckers are leaving containers all over Los Angeles.[1] There are so many of them, that they couldn't find a picture of one of them to illustrate the article

G/O media is particularly terrible with illustrations. They once had an article abut the ISS with a picture of Mir as an illustration. I think they have a contract with a stock image provider, no photographer, and no one to seek out and license original pictures. Writer are probably asked to select an illustration in their stock image library. I think it is a disgrace to journalism. The front picture is, with the tit…

What is G/O media?

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by pessimizer »

spenczar5 wrote: post #125
zzzeek wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yet commercial zoning regulations exist for some reason. if "natural forces" prevent all negative outcomes, why do they exist ?

I don’t see how I claimed that natural forces prevent all negative outcomes. Sorry, you don’t seem interested in understanding each others’ views here…

If you think your example was an exception, what was the use of it? It seemed like evidence to support the claim that there are "natural forces that deter that stuff."

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by mrfusion »

cracell wrote: post #34
burlesona wrote: post #4

Zoning laws prevent stacking containers more than 2 high. FFS. Zoning as practiced in the US may be the most pervasive, banal evil in the country. It kills our GDP[1], is a major driver of racial inequity[2], increases wealth inequality[3], and creates car-dependency which has horrible public health impacts[4]. Yet somehow nearly no one in America is aware of this or concerned about it. I wish I understood why that i…

Just no. Zoning is extremely important. You should not be allowed to build a factory in the middle of a neighborhood next to a school. There are certainly bad zoning laws but to say they are all bad is just ignorant nonsense.

I suppose a compromise could be laws that restrict pollution, toxins, noise, and odors from residential areas but otherwise anything goes.

Re: Long Beach has temporarily suspended container stacking limitations

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Post by intricatedetail »

poorjohnmacafee wrote: post #42
csee wrote: post #2

If true, it's extremely depressing that it required a viral post on social media.

It is is depressing, that clear and obvious solutions were missing at economy-critical supply chain infra. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. But also it's 2021 where people are the most cynical we've ever been, it's almost like there's interest groups in the US that want a fanning of inflation or delayed recovery through shortages.

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

It could be both e.g. foreign actor using administration's stupidity to probe country's weak points. It seems like the US is probed from all angles.

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