In the Brumadinho case, five engineers were arrested and charged and jailed.
In the Brumadinho case, five engineers were arrested and charged and jailed. They are out of jail and a criminal case is ongoing. In the Bhopal disaster, seven engineers and executives were convicted of causing death by negligence and give the maximum penalty (which was pretty weak). The Chernobyl incident led to Anatoly Dyatlov to be jailed and getting a 10-year sentence. For Fukushima, some people were charged with professional negligence causing death but they beat the charges in court. Licensing will not make anybody competent. But it can help keep incompetent people out of our field. When Engineers screw up, their malpractice insurance may get too expensive for them to continue to work in the field. When management asks for something unethical, it gives a pretty good reason for pushing back.
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Yeah, the plan is far too expensive for what it provides.
NewCrashed demand after one of the big AI labs (probably Anthropic because they focus way too hard on expensive frontier models) become inso...
New/dev/random is much too expensive for this.
Yeah, this always bugged me.
A year ago, I had the opinion that it'd be too expensive for developers to support offline mode, peer to peer, or community servers after...
The weird thing about this product is that its biggest competitor is "an old ipad." I feel like most of their target customer base alread...
There's a talk from Travis Kalanick recently on a podcast about this.
>nobody ever bought German cars for their low prices, except the Beetle Huh?
In the Brumadinho case, five engineers were arrested and charged and jailed.
In the Brumadinho case, five engineers were arrested and charged and jailed. They are out of jail and a criminal case is ongoing. In the Bhopal disaster, seven engineers and executives were convicted of causing death by negligence and give the maximum penalty (which was pretty weak). The Chernobyl incident led to Anatoly Dyatlov to be jailed and getting a 10-year sentence. For Fukushima, some people were charged with professional negligence causing death but they beat the charges in court. Licensing will not make anybody competent. But it can help keep incompetent people out of our field. When Engineers screw up, their malpractice insurance may get too expensive for them to continue to work in the field. When management asks for something unethical, it gives a pretty good reason for pushing back.
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