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by yetihehe 1600 days ago
> but has instead produced slightly less than huge choice variety at some moments in time. I'm not sold that's a disaster.

Yeah, the ship has a hole which visibly widens, but we are not underwater yet, so that's not a disaster.
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vba616 1600 days ago
That's a metaphor that could be applied to literally anything.

What point about reality is it making?

Are people standing in line for toilet paper or bread?

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yetihehe 1600 days ago
Of course those problems can be fixed and are not too bad YET, but saying that you don't need to worry about this is wrong.
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Dylan16807 1600 days ago
What widening? Throughput at ports is within a few percent of where it has been.
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jerf 1600 days ago
The first derivative of food supply disruption is clearly positive. The exact value of the second is debatable, but I feel confident saying it is at least not clearly substantially negative. Slightly negative at best and I can't give a lot of evidence for that.

The sum total of that disruption has not yet burned through our buffer, though it has caused a noticeable rise in prices. However, it is not wise to wait for our buffer to be entirely gone before being willing to identify the problem.

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Dylan16807 1599 days ago
> The first derivative of food supply disruption is clearly positive.

It might be more than it was a month ago, but it seems to me that we had worse disruption earlier in the pandemic than we have right now.

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