Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by mseebach on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:54PM
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Can't speak for the romans, but his seems legit enough, and predates the romans by quite a bit:
Hammurabi's code:
> If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death.
> If it causes the death of the son of the owner of the house, they shall put to death a son of that builder.
https://www.fs.blog/2017/11/hammurabis-code/
Heard about it on Econtalk's recent episode with Nassim Taleb.
Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by logfromblammo on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:30PM
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A more verifiable story in a similar vein would be Frank Lloyd Wright standing under an exemplar of his "dendriform" columns, developed for the Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine, laughing and whacking it with a cane as it was undergoing a loading test for the building code enforcement officers.
Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by gowld on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:09PM
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That was one of Wright's famous leaky-roof buildings.
http://journaltimes.com/news/local/confronting-a-legacy-of-a...
Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
by logfromblammo on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:26PM
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I'm not saying he was good, just self-confident.
JFYI, it is most probably apocryphal: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18558/were-roma...
still it's a nice one, I have heard the same about engineers/architects in ancient Babylon and Egypt.