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We assign fault precisely so that we know who to extract damages from. The burrito assembler is not going to be held liable for bad outcomes when they did everything right. The mer…

I think I am closer to understanding you, but not quite there. If, for instance, your burrito worker did something egregious, they could be held criminally liable, and depending on…

You do not need intent to find fault and have standing. Negligence is a thing. If your farmer chose to ignore industry standard practices and agricultural regulations to prevent an…

your comment was excellent. I couldn't read past the article's pretentious opening.

Agreed. your parenthetical comment explains the tension. The only solution is to have a crystal ball.

I do not disagree that I may lack sufficient background for this. It was clearly written for "those in the know," people who already share a common viewpoint and vocabulary, and on…

What did I just (halfway) read? This person is incoherent and rambling, raptured with their own brilliance. There may be solid points in there, I will never know. I automatically c…

I don't quite understand how anyone could actually compare systems from different vendors. The failure modes aren't something the vendors have been able to identify in advance of a…

I'm truthfully not understanding whether you've missed the point or if you're so interested in defending Tesla that you choose to look past it. I'm not making a claim about relativ…

This is the same type of thinking that prevents most developers from working in safety-critical fields. The presence of a feature, or even its impressive capabilities, is/are not w…

was brown vs board of education "activist?" possibly. I don't think I know anyone who regrets it though. SCOTUS is just one big game of political football. for centuries.

Well, what I'm not ok doing is arguing silly points steeped in what-about-isms. There are far more entertaining ways to waste time.

The context is that I replied to a comment where one knows.

While not really being one who cares personally about the example here, I would not give a tool a name that I full well know will offend the sensibilities of some who will use it. …

Cool. What's the opportunity cost to fix it?

Thank you for the reply!

All my life, it has been common parlance among every person I have ever spoken with to refer to a depleted battery as a "dead" battery. When someone announced that their cell batte…

Question, not argument: what is the definition of "super cold?" Asking because in my area, which is not an area associated with bitter cold, we have been in sub-20F temperatures fo…

What does it mean for a safety-critical program to terminate? I suspect you do not want your car's brake controller to do this.

Why not? Each project has a unique blend of acceptable risks and non-functional requirements. I promise you, you'd hate C++ if you had to write each project, safety critical or not…

He misses the point. If air was like coal, it would require extraction effort to both us and deliver it, and significant capital to do it at scale. If air was like water, it would …

Throw-away comment: that's essentially the point.

I don't think that there is. An obvious comparison is religious thought. Unlike most religious thought, you do actually learn when the consensus has been utterly wrong. What you do…

Please cote the spot where I suggested anything that even remotely looks like I took a position. All I mean to say is that circular logic based on upholding one's views of reality …

It is also possible that everything humans understand is simply a vignette into a much larger reality, and all of those things would fall apart because they aren't true, they're me…