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Re:Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of... by kentosi on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:55PM (#22549081)
I was thinking of this the other day. Perhaps this pandemic will help reshape our global economy away from its current monolithic structure into self-sustainable micro-service economies where all regions can self-sustain to a large level.

(Apologies for the nerdy analogy but this is Hacker News...)

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Re:Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of... by cycrutchfield on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @02:58PM (#22549112)
Sounds incredibly inefficient
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Re:Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:17PM (#22549376)
Diversification always sounds more inefficient than monoculture, until the monoculture encounters a systemic vulnerability and all fails at once.
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Re:Coronavirus has disrupted supply chains for nearly 75% of... by Seenso on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:59PM (#22549856)
> Sounds incredibly inefficient

Just like having redundant servers for your applications and backups for your data.

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