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OT: I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis
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<p>The people of Minnesota want a practical new bridge at the lowest cost. The political class empowers themselves by spending our money, so naturally they want the most expensive bridge. To make an expensive bridge, you design it with a lot of bells and whistles. A good way to make bells and whistles expensive is to make them intangible and hard to measure. And then when the three bids come in, you award the highest bidder because their price includes the best meeting of your intangible bells and whistles. </p><p>But, apparently nobody told two of the lower bidders how this works, and they were actually trying to bid low so they could win. However, the winning formula was to bid high and then sell your bid for intangible bells and whistles to the state with an intangible sales pitch. </p>
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