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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by AnthonyMouse on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:31PM (#18566121)
> Could you give us an example of a specific FAA or NTSB regulation which has a suboptimal benefit:burden ratio?

Sure. The air traffic control system is 20th century technology that has air traffic controllers doing things manually that could be done by computers. A better automated system would have the same or better safety while requiring significantly less labor.

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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by nradov on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:22PM (#18566642)
The FAA has been actively working to modernise the air traffic control system for decades. It's a hard problem. I fail to see how that addresses the point?
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Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? by AnthonyMouse on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:02PM (#18570459)
The point is that it's a hard problem whose solution yields large returns, but we're expending resources to solve it at a rate that takes decades to produce the solution.
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