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bazqux2 on March 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virg...

A subcontractor can make way more money by internally making parts of substandard quality to ensure they get bought.

Jtsummers on March 23, 2016 [–]

This was not deliberate in the cases I'm thinking of. This was a lack of quality control due to the extreme distributed design and development approach Boeing chose with the 787.

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