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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by bluGill on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @09:21AM (#22545575)
Most of the bad things predicted by the media wouldn't have happened even if no effort was spent. However there would have been a lot of things not predicted by the media that would have been bad. The bad things the media predicted were easy to put into a sentence, while the bad things that would have happened would take books to explain. They would only really be bad because of the sum total happening all at once.
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Re:MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester by asveikau on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:32AM (#22546138)
This.

Everyday people in the leadup to y2k assumed it meant that every computer would somehow explode. Almost nobody stopped to actually reason through the real life consequence of a program getting the date and time wrong.

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