alt Hacker News> I would pay thousands to avoid losing part of my hand.
I cut off the distal segment of my right thumb on a table saw in 1995. The initial bill, before I disputed it and received a "professional courtesy discount", was $25k.
So, you can pay a relatively small price to avoid losing part of your hand, or you can gamble that it will never happen, and then pay a high price for losing part of your hand.
Pretty simple choice to me.
ps.
Doctor: what do want to do with the rest of your life?
Me: well, I'm a programmer right now, but I'd rather be farmer
Doctor: I know a lot of farmers with less digits than you still have, and you'll still be able to hit the space bar as-is.
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Good thing you and the doc weren’t on opposite sides of the tabs v spaces discussion.
Ed: The fact that you can hit the space bar with either hand, whereas the tab would require changing your keyboard layout is not a consideration I had previously considered in this debate.
In effect, a SawStop system is like a one-time health insurance payment that prevents you from getting injured in the first place, only without jacking up the price because you used the tool in someone else's garage.