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Re:Why American Construction Costs Are So High by toephu2 on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @04:03PM (#19314212)
It is lost on me.

What do high construction costs have to do with HN?

Re:Why American Construction Costs Are So High by coldtea on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:43PM (#19314963)
As ams6110 wrote above, it's ironic to have an article criticizing the high costs of construction projects on a developer website -- given that large software project costs are the same or worse.

It's like having a post about how ecologically unfriendly the fast food industry is on Exxon's website.

Re:Why American Construction Costs Are So High by klyrs on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @04:35PM (#19314466)
The title itself is deficient -- this isn't an article about general construction costs, it's specifically about rail transit construction.
Re:Why American Construction Costs Are So High by vpribish on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @04:06PM (#19314247)
inability to predict the time and effort needed