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by eithed 2 days ago
I agree. But if I'm paying for the road (even as a taxpayer) I get angry that after a year it's full of potholes and that there are unnecessary signs warning about penguin crossing, making it cost 2 times more than it should have (and dont get me started why this road is really a highway leading to my house). I'd want certain qualities. And this article is basically = you will get a road, built quickly

But yes, you are right - I don't build roads and don't know what is a price to build a road and how to determine the quality of correctly built one, nor I will ever care or learn.
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aix1 2 days ago
> And this article is basically = you will get a road, built quickly

That's not how I am reading it. You will get a road built exactly to your spec, quickly. So no penguin crossings unless you ask for them.

I am also not entirely sure how the pothole argument translates.

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eithed 2 days ago
The road will be built to some specs, including features nobody asked for. If the corpus was trained for roads built in Arctic, you will get penguin crossings.
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