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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by __jal on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:06PM (#11493092)
Can't find it with a quick google now, but there was a study on this. Giving people fake controls, even when they knew they were fake, reduced anxiety.

Give ambulatory meat some onboard decision-making ability, and it will want to use it.

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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by nothrabannosir on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:29AM (#11495079)
That's incredible! I would never have guessed. I stand corrected, thank you.
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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by harryf on Thursday April 14, 2016 @04:03PM (#11499896)
If you want to see the problem practice, here's someone's mother trying out the Tesla self-drive... http://mirror.ninja/sniz
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