Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, Officials Say

Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by marcosdumay on Saturday January 13, 2018 @10:34PM (#16142692)

> But there are certain jobs where the job is to get it right 100% of the time.

No there aren't. There are certain activities that must be always correct, you implement those by making a reliable system out of unreliable jobs, not by making the people 100% reliable.

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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by ithkuil on Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:35PM (#16146223)

So, the people who are in charge of designing such a system need to do a good job. What if that too inevitably fails? You can either improve the system/process by learning from mistakes or blindly firing the culprits and replacing them with somebody who might well make the same mistake again

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