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bwarp on Feb 8, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Roger Boisjoly dies at 73; engineer tried to halt ...

> Thankfully, very few of us will be faced with these honestly life-or-death technical decisions.

You'd be surprised. Check out the computer risks digest - always a sign of how pear shaped stuff can go:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks

dmethvin on Feb 8, 2012 [–]

Yep, I've followed it for many years:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/15.70.html#subj3.1 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18.39.html#subj9.1

bwarp on Feb 8, 2012 | [–]

Excellent. I love the comment of yours "I'm not cashing this one either; now I want to find out how badly they want to give me this money."

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