[LINK] The numbers just don't add up.

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 11/08/2016 12:13 PM, Ben Elliston wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:01:54PM +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>
>> Let's see if they try and organise people to fill in their on-line
>> censuses alphabetically, or by state, or star sign, or medicare
>> number
> .. which is how it should have been done in the first place.  Why
> build a system with such a high peak capacity when you could smooth it
> out over several days (say, Queensland Monday, Victoria Tuesday, NSW
> Wednesday) and do it with less kit?

Answers?:

a) they automated what is done manually - always a bad idea. When things
go wrong they go wrong bigger, faster and worse.

b) like the space shuttle disaster, the people who understand these
things were not the ones making the decisions

c) hubris among those who did make the decisions.

d) and maybe something of the Australian "she'll be right, maaaate."

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
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