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ceejayozyesterday at 2:38 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, absolutely.

There's a cost to perfection. In our computing world, every extra nine of reliability is more expensive than the last, often with diminishing returns.

See also: Florida drug testing welfare recipients cost more than it saved. https://www.aclu.org/news/smart-justice/just-we-suspected-fl...


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groundzeros2015yesterday at 2:43 PM

You’re arguing that the cost to find bad taxes is not worth the savings. That’s not the same thing.

If I’ve already found with a poor justification or better yet, someone is proposing a new one. Shouldn’t we remove it?

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