Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt
by XorNot on Saturday January 25, 2014 @05:35PM
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There's a magic formula to making a project go overbudget:
1. Accept the sensible, well-costed proposal for 3-years of intensive works.
2. Announce you're going to cut costs the next year in the budget by reducing the scope.
3. The project is now overbudget, because the cost per unit delivered has gone up since hey, plant and tooling is a big fixed cost.
The blame for this lies on the taxpayer, who keeps voting in the idiots who do this or make promises along these lines.
If we got fair value for infrastructure projects, I'd like to see a huge amount more transportation, energy, etc. infrastructure in the US -- a lot of what we have is outdated or insufficient. I don't really care if it is government or private industry, but that it costs vastly more to get the same work done in the US than in other places contributes to substandard infrastructure.