@pmarca We need a breakdown by sector. Seems like overstaffing might be much worse in education and healthcare (10-20x?) mostly on the administrative side.
Here are two often forgotten figures in history Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov. They both were asked to end the world and decided to not to launch nukes. In both cases, they disobeyed their orders, training, and society. This is how fragile life is. Never forget it
The NRC was created in 1975. Since then, zero new nuclear power plants in the US have ever reached operation.
[New = entities whose initial application for a construction permit / operating license (or a combined license) was filed with the NRC.]
H/t @elidourado for this.
People forget just how completely non-obvious the entire digital revolution was every step of the way.
1995: WWW will fail
2002: Google will fail
2007: iPhone will fail
2013: Facebook will fail