How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal

Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by dfc on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @12:00PM (#10812958)

So, characteristic X is so common that it does reveal the identity of company Y. Yet the author is surprised that many companies think X is normal?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by hyperpape on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @01:37PM (#10813487)

There are two points I'd make:

1) Maybe yes. If the practices are really bad, it could be surprising that they're widespread and that people don't see a problem.

2) In general, when someone is pointing out something bad, saying "you're surprised?!" is counter-productive. You don't have to be surprised to call something out (I'm not surprised anymore how much our government spies on us, but it seems bad).

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How Completely Messed Up Practices Become Normal by xixi77 on Thursday December 31, 2015 @07:45AM (#10817381)

He writes it as if he is suggesting that 99% reliability is just bad, period. If his point was to say that 99% is bad in this specific use case, he should have made that more clear.

[ Parent | on HN ]