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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by rgacote on Monday May 22, 2017 @09:10AM (#14393235)
Same issue occurred with Y2K. Dire threats, nothing occurred on actual date. Fact is there was an immense effort to update millions of lines of code throughout our infrastructure -- apparently successfully. Do recall several cases of old systems being kept running "to see what would happen" and they did demonstrate the failure.

Just because we averted disaster doesn't mean it wasn't going to happen.

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Re:Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal citi... by caseysoftware on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:02AM (#14393607)
Let me tell you about the five major car accidents I narrowly avoided on the way to work this morning. They didn't happen but they would have!

Just because it didn't happen doesn't mean we "averted disaster." It's entirely possible that much (or even all) of the build up was normal media fear mongering and loosely based on reality.

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