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Iatrogenesis is everywhere! Medicine, engineering, economics, politics, etc.
I didn’t know this concept had a name, so thanks for that. Now I have a fancy sounding term to tell my manager why I won’t touch that ugly EnterpriseJavaBeans codebase and that we need to rewrite it from scratch.
Unless you plan to give medicine to your code.
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I didn’t know this concept had a name, so thanks for that. Now I have a fancy sounding term to tell my manager why I won’t touch that ugly EnterpriseJavaBeans codebase and that we need to rewrite it from scratch.
That's not what Iatrogenesis means, though ... Unless you plan to give medicine to your code.
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“That’s not what Bug means though, unless you plan to put literal insects inside your computer”
Iatro- means medicine ... Check a dictionary or something.
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“Bug” is derived from “bugge”, which means “scarecrow or goblin”. Check a dictionary or something.
I never said your analogy was valid, but the opposite. Read carefully.
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Derailments are common is what the stats show. US derailments are largely property damage as they are freight centric, while in Europe, passenger deaths are higher due to more heavy passenger utilization. Derailment is hard to defend against.
No, they are not common. The numbers you've been given are completely wrong. The GGP has quoted the derailments figure from the USA page, but the total accidents (including trespassers and level crossing accidents) for the EU. The EU page they cite says there were 63 derailments in 2024. A derailment in Europe tends to make the news even when there are no injuries. This single accident has killed more train passenger…
Commuter train crashes into crane in Murcia, marking Spain's fourth train crash in five days - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725317 - January 2026
It looks like 40 cm of track was cut away from the tracks. It looks like sabotage or terrorism.
So, a maintenance issue because of lack of investment.
[1]: https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2026/01/24/69751757e85ecebc3...