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Re:Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home fo... by lordCarbonFiber on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:13AM (#13521768)
The difference is bugs in the current ad-tech darling or "uber for tindr dogs" won't ruin people's lives. There are good reasons why most professions (and even most difficult software) can't act as flippantly as "test it in prod".
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Re:Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home fo... by hkmurakami on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:19AM (#13522407)
There are plenty of examples of accounts getting accidentally banned by Google/Amazon and someone's livelihood vaporizing overnight.
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Re:Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home fo... by 794CD01 on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:21AM (#13521840)
That's not true at all. Most tech companies, like uber or tindr, are fundamentally aimed at ruining certain people's lives. And even when it's not intentional, it still happens, whether it's a bug that is effectively slander without a guilty party to bring suit against, an ad that infects you with malware that destroys your life's work, or just people being people.
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