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brooksttoday at 11:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

Can we retire the “seatbelts are useless because they can’t prevent every loss of life” approach to risk mitigation please?

If the acceptance criteria is “would prevent every single past instance and every imaginable future instance”, then yes, no mitigation is every sufficient to address any problem in the world, so we might as well give up.

But I don’t think that’s the right lens to use.


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pjc50today at 12:44 PM

That depends on whether it's a issue of accidents or a "you have to get lucky every time, we only have to get lucky once" issue.

ceejayoztoday at 11:49 AM

I'm onboard with this! I just object to the term "fixable".