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Re:Spectre/Meltdown Pits Transparency Against Liability by perl4ever on Thursday February 01, 2018 @05:32PM (#16286583)
Everyone dies exactly once, no matter what they do, so I question whether driving causes any deaths at all. I think the comparison might need to be put in terms of quality adjusted person-years of life lost or something. People get tunnel vision when focused on optimizing a certain metric. If nobody was driving, how much would life expectancy go up?
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Re:Spectre/Meltdown Pits Transparency Against Liability by LeifCarrotson on Monday February 05, 2018 @08:42AM (#16308655)
That only strengthens the argument.

People die from heart disease, cancer, respiratory failure, Alzheimer's, strokes etc. in old age. Reducing one of those factors would give few additional high-quality person-years of life. Auto accidents bring death to younger people who, in the absence of that catastrophe, would be expected to live many more years.

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