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Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by ignoramous on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:33AM (#27173242)
> Or to be more direct: Why fuss over 131x10 feet and not the fact your only recovery plan is one excavator and a handful of tugboats?

One should identify both corrective measures and preventive measures in equal measure.

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Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by morelisp on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:36AM (#27173260)
As long as people are heavily incentivized to build boats to exactly the size of the canal (i.e. as long as international shipping exists) the measure isn't actually preventative.
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Re:The Suez Canal will be widened by aliceryhl on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:43AM (#27173314)
Regarding this, see this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27173290
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